In Praise of My Mother

Posted by: admin on July 3, 2010

I want to share an image I created of and for my Mom five years ago. As many of you, already know, my  mom gave up her long fight with heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease and went with the angels on July 1. No one is ever really prepared for the loss of a parent, but I know in my heart she has sweet peace now.I celebrate her life. She was my best friend and confidante as well as my Mom, and I wish every mother and daughtercould enjoy the kind of unconditional love I knew with her as a child, teen and adult. She taught me to see beauty in the simple things like her cracked green teacup, and she helped me name my studio “angel-kissed.”   Here is her favorite portrait of the many I created of her over the years, and the poem I have written for her.  And I feel “Angel Kissed” to have known her all my life.

 For MaMa 1921-2010

Today I dedicate the sunshine to you. Today I give you the beauty of birdsong and the bustle of NYC traffic.

Today I cherish you with every one of my smiles. 

 And I anoint you with every one of my tears.

Today I applaud you in the voice of thunder before spring rain.

And and in the crash of  winter waves on your beach.

Today I kiss you with the breezes that rustle the roses you planted. 

And I  bless you with the aroma of fresh pie-crust and the flavor of your bitter-sweet coffee.

I wrap you in the satin gold of sunrise and the lavender velvet of twilight.

Today I dedicate to you my heartbeat and remember you with each breath,

for today I celebrate your beautiful soul! 

                                                                        by CharMaine Beleele, Grateful Daughter