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Cleo_Serapis

Sep 12 05, 18:49

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The April, 2005 Member's Choice results are in! :sun:

Congrats to Ephiny for winning our April Member's Choice Award with her tile, 'My Grandmother's Hands' !!

WAY TO GO "E"!

Your entry will be displayed along with a 'special graphic' in your signature! You have led your Muse to bask in the glory of the crown jewel ~ Member Choice.

Congratulations! You have added a tile to our Mosaic in style. Thank you! JOY to you, oh mighty one! :bowdown: :cloud9: :dance: :artist: :partyfavor: :musicband:

Cheers!
Mosaic Musings Staff :pharoah: :viking: :tut: :troy: :vic: :knight:

Member Choice Award Winner

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My Grandmother's Hands

Your hands scrubbed fiercely;
kept fires fed, kettles boiling,
faces cleaned and noses wiped.
They wrung dishcloths,
soothed orphaned lambs,
planted bulbs, caressed
first spring flowers and
photographs and welcomed
evening callers with village news.

Your hands worked through
everything and remained supple.
Tea placed on the table
with comforting regularity,
tears dried, potatoes peeled
for midday dinners
for hungry men in fields
tending spring births
and harvesting tall grass
for impending winters.

Joined in prayer,
your hands broke
my heart, quiet and twined
with beads, blessed
over and over,
carried unknown distances
on summer evenings,
your dog by your side.

The overgrown laneway:
your sunlit shortcut
to a silent churchyard.

Copyright © 2005 Lucie Kavanagh
All rights reserved as an unpublished work.

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