Monthly Archives: October 2012
For My Father
October 6
Anniversary
Don’t think this day
Will harrow you ever that way
You dread
Estranged from the smile of humanity
I will fight for you
Don’t think this day
Will on the calendar ever stay
Your relic, an
Encircled date, red with stroke of travesty
I will bleed for you
Don’t think this day
Will always be one of pain
Your fortune
Engraved in stone, or living to bury
I will lay down my life for you
Don’t think I pray
Without faith or in vain
I see you
Embraced in love, I see you Merry
You will overcome as
He has
Again & again
Amen
© 2012 Anna Mosby Coleman

Poem on October 4th
Diving
I wrote this with Josh Coleman. We are playing a creative game. He gives me a word to make something out of, and I give him a word. I gave him the word “balancing” and he is making a song with it. He gave me the word: diving. Here is my diving poem.
Maybe I will make a diving painting (out of video) – next summer.