Memories may fade…yet love lives on

Words dance on my lips, and flit away

As I seek to catch them, wondering if I may

Be allowed to express them, seeking to understand

Words that hover on the fringes, like footprints in the sand.

As I remember the years gone by, just about two

I wonder what had happened, my apparent waterloo

A watershed, a marking, an etching in stone

A burden too heavy for a time to bemoan.

Now I turn back and look…nothing in sight

A mirage, a feeling, an experience, like a soaring kite

Searching for images, few come to mind

Fewer than before, and of a different kind.

Memories? I can scarce bring to mind

Vividness of colour and clarity rescind   

I struggle to hear the haunting melody of voice

Lost in the cacophony of daily noise.

Fading memories, yet sustaining love

A never ending well, a strong hull

Mellower and deeper, a feeling that’s within

A soulful communion with my mother within.

-          -  Ann Joseph  

      (written in loving memory of my mother, this second year of remembrance)

List of poems penned:
Blessed are thy ways oh Lord http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/blessed-are-thy-ways-o-lord.html
Life - an Illusion http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/life-illusion.html
An Ode to my mother - http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/an-ode-to-my-mother.html
Remembrances http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/remembrances.html
Aloneness http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2013/10/aloneness.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/moments.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/when-love-finds-self.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/12/what-is-love.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/the-dance-of-truth.html

Remembrances

The fog lifts its wispy weight, light filters through

Creating illusions of a new world, realigned maps of living

Shifting sands, new beginnings, new sounds & feelings

Seamlessly integrating old maps and new.

In the midst of the new, come remembrances of the old

Remnants of a word, sweet fragrances, tastes of yore

Rejuvenating feelings, pangs of remembrances

With fleeting glimpses into a world known before.

The world forges on, no room for those gone

Things to be done, compelling like a song

Taking comfort in daily routines, finding succour in faith

Days pass by; nights pass by, with grace and hope.

Days of a past life, sweet remembered fantasy

Captured words, sounds, experiences of a life time

Cherished treasures, bringing succour in the night time

Bottled remembrances, for ever in eyes that see.

Now, a struggle to remember a loving face

A soft nuance in voice, tender touch of a hand

Finding they are just wisps of the lifting fog

Butterflies that give joy, never to be caught.

Tears give way, despair moves to hope

Beginnings of a smile, taking comfort in the ‘now’

Life’s intricate mosaic designs, a kaleidoscope

Designed, created, executed, by One who knows best.

From dust to dust, just an earthly chapter closed

Leaving memories galore, impressions of love

A feathery touch, an indelible mark

Alive as hope in our lives, forever in our heart.

-          Ann Joseph

Written in loving memory of my mother

List of poems penned:
Blessed are thy ways oh Lord http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/blessed-are-thy-ways-o-lord.html
Life - an Illusion http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/life-illusion.html
An Ode to my mother - http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/an-ode-to-my-mother.html
Remembrances http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/remembrances.html
Aloneness http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2013/10/aloneness.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/moments.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/when-love-finds-self.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/12/what-is-love.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/the-dance-of-truth.html