Dear Mama

Angie's DIARY | Online Writing Magazine

Posted by Nancy Duci Denofio on Jan 12th, 2012 and filed under Poetry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Home >> Poetry >> Dear Mama

Mama, you told me I
could make friends everywhere
well – you were wrong.
You can’t understand . . .
because you’re a soul
with many friends.

Mama, you influenced
me, never hesitated to
guide me, to see my path
but you never
clenched a white cane -

People turn away,
even my smile scares
them – heads turn
see, things have
changed since you
became a spirit -
Mama, you taught me
to reach out, do everything -
never reason with silence

only if silence made me
think – see solitude, embraced
quiet – peaceful days.
to be creative – remember
dreams we shared –
life of a fortune teller, we both
could see – before you
were a spirit – oh, you
had laughter in your
heart, a story in your
bones – secrets no one

understood as you shared
a gift – those who believed
kept dropping by our porch -

Mama, once more as I sat
alone, you repeatede I
could make friends any place -
you told me to wait.

no one knew about a web -
Mama – stop. Stop
telling me today, you
know I believe – we have
understood, you are like
a stanza filled with character
even if I know you are here
but gone - we understand

your guidance
shall never leave – your
clues, left to tell us – your
words from a stranger’s lips
inspiration will never disappear.

The cane is gone – heads
no longer turn away -
progress they say – and
all the people in the world
drive excitment into my life
as a historian of the past
I am the keeper of memories.

Mama you were right -

Similar posts on this magazine:

Categories: Poetry
Tags: belief, Friends, living, spirit

You must be logged in to post a comment Login

VIP Author Info

Nancy Duci Denofio

Author "What Brought You Here?" and to be released in March 2012 "Did You Ever Want To Fly," published by DysteniumLLC Limited Edition Press. Series Editor - Poetry is Life, a fifteen book series of Poetic Memoir, submissions are requested through online submission at Poetry Is Life on the web, or on Facebook. You can also learn more about Poetic Memoir, in easy to use formats from my most recent blog posted herein. Instructions are posted on these sites, and on dystenium.com on the web. http://nancy@limitededitionspress.com will give you information about "What Brought You Here" available through the publisher or on Amazon.com Poetic Memoir is found in many forms of writing, such as Memoirs, poetry, journal writing and more. With some help and advice, your work can be captivating and one passed along to families, generation after generation. Nancy has written all her life and has taught at different venues, in public schools, libraries, workshops, and named Woman Writer of the Year at Notre Dame College in 1994. She has taught Author Presentation for fifteen years. Nancy doesn't only write poetry she has been working and researching for years a true story based on her strong Grandmother, born in Sicily which would bring you through the life she led as a child, from the time her mother gave birth to the time men left families to find a better way of life, to immigration, prohibition, mob infiltration, deadly diseases, and death. Nancy was involved in the political arena as public speaker for those searching for work and on disability, and was awarded by the President, William Jefferson Clinton for her work for the American's for Disability Act, which passed during his term in office. She spoke with Sen. Edward Kennedy on Save Our Security at Faneuil Hall. She also worked on health care, interviewing all Presidential Candidates one on one, some for over one hour. She began The First Ladies’ campaign for Senate in Saratoga Springs New York, and continued to fight for her role as President. A member of the advisory board for the Broderick Brain Foundation, where research will help those with long-term illness due to diseases affecting the brain. Blog Talk Radio Host for Page Turners with Writers, Authors, Directors, Producers, Poets, and others. She has been the administrator for Got Poetry on Face book and All Things Publishing, on Face Book. Her book and web page is nancy.limitededitionspress.com and she is active with DysteniumLLC Online, WriterEtc. In addition, SheWrites. She has mentored many on Got Poetry and one on one. Her writing is of Universal appeal as many Librarians have noted, "A new system should be arranged to include Poetic Memoirs. A second book in a series consisting of four will be available 1/2011 "Did You Ever Want to Fly?" by DysteniumLLC LLC. The Third, "Should I Tell?" ending with a hardcover 300 pages of new work "Did You Ever Know Me?" The series scheduled completion in 2012. Nancy's work has appeared in Journals, magazines and newspapers both here and abroad. Nancy is Managing Editor for a new Journal soon to be released through SUNY New Paltz with Dennis Doherty, become a fan on face book and watch for future submissions. Nancy as administrator of Got Poetry Group on Face Book takes time to read each post and tries to comment as often as possible. Become a fan of Got Poetry. A writer most of her life: Included poetry, short stories and journals - memoir which begins in 1892, based on a true story of a strong woman, her Grandmother fighting for the rights of her sons. She continues to write at least three to four different styles of writing a day. One journal of her older journals took place during the late sixties and she is considering this as a true story. As a teenager, she was a freelance writer for Seventeen Magazine. In college, she was an editor for the College Paper. Nancy took to the stage in her youth, and offered a permanent part on The Patty Duke Show through a friend she met while performing in The Sound of Music. She was offered a scholarship to the American Academy of Dance at sixteen, and performed along with Wilson Picket and the Union Gap, and others, remembering youth, and Mustang Sally. She taught dance, in the early 70's. She won several titles along the way but her most important was Woman Writer of the Year in 1994 from Notre Dame College. Her challenge is to have her epic novel edited, she tells many she sees it, since she is legally blind, which took her other passion away, photography, but still sketches and oil paints. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1986, when they told her she would never walk again, nor see. She does both. She is determined to do all she had planned and more. A life of stories and imagination has filled thousands of pages. She had kept them to herself until this past March when her publisher found her on Twitter when fighting health care reform. She thought, someone, someday would read her work. A publisher’s dream, when someone has written all their life and never published a book, only in journals and magazines or newspapers. She loves history, science, medicine after writing. Moreover, finds the arts relaxing. As an advocate for the people she has learned how people suffer, and continues to follow the recent and past, and the political arena. Once a spokes person for First Lady Hillary Clinton, after her first speech at a college in Albany NY, she rode with the Presidents cabinet up and down the east coast, stopping on the way to speak once more. During her political journey, she interviewed one on one, Lamar Alexander, Robert Dole, Arlen Specter, and others. Invited as speaker on issues regarding Health Care, Women's Issues, Education, Domestic Violence, families, and more. She reads at local open mics, and is a strong worker for other authors to promote their work - or set up workshops in her area. Recently she taught at WWAM at Skidmore College. A member of the International Women's Writers Guild for 25 years, which brought her to one on one work with individual writers. Invited to several private locations - teaching younger children the value in writing and creating characters - ideas, and promote writing. She is an avid reader. Inspired by her Sicilian Grandmother who told stories of her life in Sicily, giving her a clear image for her epic novel beginning in 1892. Brought up with a father, who was Mayor of her hometown for 16 years, in politics since the day she was born, and learned public speaking through him. As she watched him write, his own speeches, and then give them to a full house. Her mother, Irish, and filled with imagination, creativity, stories of Shakespeare, Limericks, and more - one of 18 children, her mother dreamed of becoming a lawyer. Born in Schenectady NY - she now resides in Saratoga Springs NY with her husband. She is the mother of two daughters and has five grandchildren. She continues on the paths that she loves writing, editing, speaking, and advocacy. Her love of people and what she observes, hears, and experiences remains inside like permanent ink, this has been the case since childhood. She hears your writing and can pick up every error, and turn your work into what you dreamed it would be, she believes through her poor eyesight and great memories.