Mary Fumento http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress Poems and Essays for the Soul, 1981-2011 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:24:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Together http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=307 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=307#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:24:26 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=307 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

]]> http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=307 0 Lullaby http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=305 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=305#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:58:11 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=305 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

]]> 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

]]> http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=303 0 Winter Sky at Evening Time http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=300 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=300#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:55:22 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=300 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

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]]> http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=296 0 Landslide http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=292 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=292#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:23:03 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=292 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

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

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The lake disappears again
And but air appears

]]> http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=279 0 Raw new poem (aren’t they all): Labels http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=278 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=278#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:34:02 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=278 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

]]> http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=278 0 On the Cusp http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=277 http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=277#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 05:14:35 +0000 admin http://www.maryfumento.com/passages/wordpress/?p=277 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

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