My grandmother's spirit has long since left her body and as I sat by her bedside holding her frail hand, I traced each age line with my finger.
Here's the yummy pies....
Here's the juicy pulp scraped from an apple and fed to me on a knife...
Here's the laughter......
Here's the thousand hours of understanding.....
Here's the extra dime I didn't earn....
Here's the wisdon I forgot to tap....
Here's the sacrifice I never noticed....
Here's the quiet love that sustained me...
Here's the disappointment never mentioned....
Here's the home I needed....
Here's a life.
Thank you God for Grandma.
I write this because I don't want to forget.
Is there something you should remember?
Grandma Proses
Shirley A. Bender
Copyright © 1985
'A Life Ago' set to music...
Composed by Laurie Stonerock
About Me
- Coffeenuts
- Indiana
- This Blog was initially created to help illustrate my Mom's poetry. Her name; Shirley A. Bender. She was born in Indianapolis in 1933. She spent 20 years of her adult life in Arizona and New Mexico. She attended Purdue University, and has lived in Lafayette, Indiana since 1971. She is married to her husband of 60 years, has three children, four grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren w/1 in the oven. She has read her poems throughout the country, and works with grade school children to foster creative writing. My mom's sister, the late Mary Lou Meyer, was the driving force behind my mother to have her books published. Aunt Lou also had eight of her sister's poems set to music. All eight of these tunes were composed by Laurie Stonerock and can be heard on this blog.
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