Mary Fumento http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress Poems and Essays for the Soul, 1981-2011 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:35:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Absentia http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=321 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=321#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:29:24 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=321 (I came to know you outside the bounds of how I have always known you.)

Proximity is a blessed comfort
But a crutch, of course
I see what I want to see
Because you are close to me
And in distance I learn
What was hidden all along
Present, but buried deeply
Under my own interpretation

Be you; I’ll find out in time
I’ll recognize who you really are
I’ll finally see beyond distance
Regardless of ultimately how far
- Mary O. Fumento, 2013

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That passed
As the bright sun

Moved by
Casting light
Leaving dark

And in emptiness
Making my mark
- Mary O. Fumento, 2013

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Evening Coronation

Glorious moon:
Rising from the horizon,
Shining through
The still naked branches
Of trees awaiting
Their spring leaves.

Her reflective beauty;
Not intrinsic.
Like beauty of pearl
Or diamond or opal,
All which glow only
When light passes through.

Or when Light is reflected
From them. Their beauty truly
In the eye of the beholder.
We see, therefore,
We  are.
- Mary O. Fumento, 2012

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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

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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

]]> http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=305 0 An Interview with David Kirby http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=303 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=303#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:22:01 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=303 by Tom C. Hunley
from Five Points, Volume 14, Number 2

http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_kirby2.php

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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

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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

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

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