With Mother’s Day almost upon us, it seems a good time to share a couple of poems I’ve recently published celebrating two of the many marvelous women in my life.
Mamaw with me on my first birthday.
The first poem is “Our Spirits Shall Sorrow No More.” Available in both print and audio here in Deep South Magazine, it’s about my grandmother – known as “Mamaw” to multiple generations of my family – but if you grew up in the South or Appalachia, it may remind you of your mama or granny, too.
I think Mamaw would particularly like that I mention Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, two of her favorite country singers, in the poem. And she’d love that Kelsey Wells, my daughter, plays clawhammer banjo on the piece. As you’ll see, the entire poem is structured around just one line of the hymn “In the Sweet By and By:” In the sweet by and by we shall meet on that beautiful shore.
Read and listen to “Our Spirits Shall Sorrow No More”
This is one of the tracks that will be on our CD, due out later in 2012.
Kudos to Deep South for its daily feature of poetry during National Poetry Month! I’m flattered that this poem was among those featured, and doubly delighted to have it mentioned again in Deep South’s distinctively Southern salute to National Poem in Your Pocket Day.
Also don’t miss Deep South’s 2012 Summer Reading List and fabulous book giveaway through August 1st!
The second poem, called “Praise Her,” was inspired by Proverbs 31:10-31, the famous passage that describes a “virtuous woman.” [Read more...]
