On November 14th, my first blog, sixblocksfromthecity.com, celebrated her third anniversary! Here’s one of my favorite haikus from the past year posted to my blog. Thank you all, dear readers, for your encouragement and support of my writing. Sending you all love.
The poet herself, ca 2000.
Abundance of love
Tickling tendrils of my soul:
Your hearts’ golden warmth.
Genovaite Josephine Ambraziejus as a teen, my mother before she became Genovaite Ambraziejus Cizauskas. 19 March 1926-15 August 2014.
Tracing my cheek lines
To find if your bones are mine.
My mother, my soul.
Genovaite Ambraziejus Cizauskas
Mom of all us five
And gentle mother of Love
Meeting in heaven.
Mary, Mother of Love
Genovaite Ambraziejus Cizauskas hugging her new son-in-law, Donald Prather, husband of the poet. The Plumas House, Reno, Nevada. Saturday, 12 October 2013.
Lindsey Naima Elizares at a wedding photo shoot. Photo by Dennis Myers. The Plumas House, Reno, Nevada. Saturday, 12 October 2013.
Days of wine and song
Together touching the sky
Stretch before you now.
Nail “Art” at the 2nd Street Walmart in Reno, Nevada. Tuesday, 8 July 2014.
What should have been art
Becomes the stuff of nightmares:
Our narcissism.
The Easter lily thrown away in the backyard, only to spring to life as my mother begins her journey of passing. Falls Church, Virginia. Monday, 23 June 2014.
What was thrown away
Has burst forth with brilliant life
To give joy and hope.
Skin thin as paper
Folded on my mother’s arm.
My heart breaks with love.
My mother’s arm. Fairfax Nursing Center, Virginia. Sunday, 22 June 2014
The author with her mom when Carol visited to say goodbye. Saturday, 21 June 2014. Falls Church, Virginia.
I sit here by my mother’s bed
While she slowly drifts off,
And quickly drifts off.
The swift sleep comes in this life,
The slow sleep leads her to the next.
Will she dream?
I know not how, or of what.
But I know
Dreams she may have
Will be lifted on angels’ wings
To carry her home,
To carry her home.
Bride and her mother hugging right after the ceremony. Carol Cizauskas and Gene Cizauskas. The Plumas House, Reno, Nevada. Saturday, 12 October 2013. Photo by Lindsey Naima Hemphill, owner of Naima Photography.
Your hands speak of love
As you hold your daughter close
After the wedding.
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