Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver

Category: My Mother

• Audio Healing My Mother Podcasts Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Prose Publication Writing

  

  Poetry Podcast on Grief: Fire and Ice

  I have another episode up on my Podbean podcast, Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul. This podcast episode is about grief and in particular, my grief over my mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. I describe grief and the havoc Alzheimer’s wreaks on its victims, especially Mom. In addition to my poems,…

  January 26, 2020
• Audio My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul

  

  Picking Blueberries with Mom

  This poem is hyperlinked to an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/21/grief-healing-through-poetry/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Picking Blueberries with Mom On hot summer Michigan days, Mom loved picking wild blueberries. We would be on that promised trip…

  July 3, 2019
• Audio Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry

  

  Grace

  This poem is included in an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/21/grief-healing-through-poetry/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Grace the leaves have fallen and stomped to dust I am laid bare, exposed to wind my limbs, brittle, still pleading…

  January 12, 2019
• Digital Art My Mother Original Digital Art Poem Poetry

  

  This, a River

  This, a River This, a river, I am not lines but curves Winding around sand bars Creating islands  Revealed in low tide My current pulses life Tadpoles, carp, algae I smile in light Shimmering reflections I draw in birds to feed I am poetry for travelers  On barges I hold…

  August 15, 2018
• Audio My Family My Father My Mother Poem Poetry

  

  The House of Souls

  The House of Souls

  August 12, 2017
• Audio My Mother Poem Poetry Voices from the Veil

  

  Hello, It’s Mom

  She sounds whole again.

  August 6, 2017
• Audio Ekphrastic Poetry My Mother Poem Poetry

  New Audio: Mother, Great Pine

  Change is constancy. The tree is a tree. It is as it is. Mother, Great Pine is old and cracked yet still useful to time.

  July 26, 2017
• Audio Haiku My Mother Poem Poetry

  

  New Audio: Robin

  Winter haiku…Reflecting on the loss of the mother I knew.

  July 26, 2017
• Audio Haiku My Mother Poem Poetry

  

  Robin

  Winter haiku….. Reflecting on the loss of the mother I knew.

  June 22, 2017
• Audio Ekphrastic Poetry My Mother Poem Poetry

  

  Mother, Great Pine

  Change is constancy. The tree is a tree. It is as it is. Mother, Great Pine is old and cracked yet still useful to time.

  June 21, 2017