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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 The Crux No crown of thorns Red roses, instead And light, of course I knew the beauty I ultimately would see Asking for a way Your peace to receive And giver you are Unselfishly you gave Presenting yourself to me In a circle of love In an image of hope Where time won’t cease I’ll be for you; you for me In the brilliance of belief. - Mary O. Fumento, 2011

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

Rummager

We shed skins like snakes
And dig like squirrels to find
Any hidden identity…
We rummage as if we lost
What might have mattered most
Although it was deep inside
All along
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

Beyond Bounds

The places we go
The people we know
Outlive what we think
For life is as it is
Lovely, available
Only we put bounds
On what we might be
Look outside and see
The majesty of those who are
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

Celestial

Every blue sky belongs
To you
Even fluffy white clouds
I adore
Because the heavens are love
You bring
Covering, protecting, devotion
You share
Without pretense or payment
Daily, unending
You deliver goodness
For us
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

The Beckoning

Shadows on sidewalks
Branches that beckon
Inverting the sky
With a force of reckon
For low can be high
And high can be low
Depending on perspective
And which way to go
So listen to the shadows
And directions they give
An alternative destination
And a new way to live
- Mary O. Fumento, 2011

Firefly

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

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