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Thanks to Anna Huynh for a music tribute with one of my poems: Nighttime By Mary O. Fumento at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBoMa727MvY. Music is called Sad Romance, composed by Thao Xanh Nguyen.

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Landslide

Salvaging wreckage
Dipping into debris
A life focused forward
Just now returning back

For things buried before
Blessings securely there
Safely awaiting a future

Promises still unspoken
And a world to behold
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

Humidity

In summertime mist
The lake disappears again
And but air appears
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

On the Cusp

On the cusp
Of becoming real
The Velveteen Rabbit
Couldn't improve

The feeling, the hurt
All that was true

And the loss
Emptiness, of course
That only a simple rabbit
Could feel
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

Together

I'm a you and you're a you
But together we're a we
And you as you, me as me
May be the best we can ever be

But I think not, and just know
That we should try and see...

What grows in time, when nurtured
Just like an itty, bitty tree
Can be better than best, or better yet
An abundance of sheer possibility
- Mary O. Fumento, 2012

Lullaby

Your voice alone
Gentleness in song
A protective sheath
A guard against dawn
A hideaway deep
A defense strong
In quiet murmur
A softness long
A wing will carry
To where we belong
- Mary O. Fumento, 2012

Winter Sky at Evening Time

Crystalized trees etched upon the sky
Gently painted with pastel colors
A hue of pink, a touch of blue
Surrounded by the softest purple
The winter sky at evening time
Reflects confidence in the dawn
The return of light, return of warmth
Spring but a whisper just behind
- Mary O. Fumento, 2012

Summertime

Thunderstorms rumble
Breaking across the sky in fire
Drenching souls in thirst
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

Labels

So organized

Everything in place
Things have a moment
They have a space

Memorizing the emotion
Encapsulated
And we can't let go

Emancipated

As if we could
Let go of those things
- Mary O Fumento, 2011

Firefly

I found you
I saw you
I felt you
I tasted

You were only light

I hadn't thought
You even existed
Pure magic, not myth
Yet there you were

Illuminating life for me
Until, like light, you quickened

Vanishing into the night
- Mary O. Fumento, 2008

Many thanks to Aida Hayek for her wonderful pottery, Message in a Bottle, in tribute to my poem, Sunset. Please visit the entire Falmouth Public Library art tribute. Art begets art, after all.