Joseph’s Angel

in #poetry7 years ago (edited)
A memoriam for our Dawny
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Picture of Dawny and her Joseph, from family source

Daughter, sister, wife, mother… friend
She gave loyalty for loyalty to the end
Her flame-kissed hair shinin’ like a halo
That mischievous turn of her lips, just so
Losing Dawny cuts deep to our hearts
A little piece o’sunshine torn from hearts

With her bright laughing eyes
And those one of a kind Dawn smiles
O Lord, we all need Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’hell

Joseph’s Angel, mom to the fiercest degree
Gone from us now with the Lord to be
Laughing eyes dimmed in pain never more
Gone home, sharin’ stories on the golden shore
Lookin’ down on her Joe with hopeful sighs
In our Lord’s bosom Our Dawny now lies

With her bright laughing eyes
And those one of a kind Dawn smiles
O Lord, we all need Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’hell

We see her now with little tricksy pranks
Laughter for all in Heaven’s ranks
We’ll miss Joseph’s Angel while we rejoice
God called her forth with His wise choice
To with the Heavenly Hosts her stories regale
Dawny’s gone Home, made new, hearty and hale

With her bright laughing eyes
And those one of a kind Dawn smiles
O Lord, we all need Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’hell

I never imagined such a world or day
Where she wasn’t just a phone call away
Joseph’s Angel always found the laughter
In every situation of the joke she was master
She told our stories, rendered humorously
Showed us not to take ourselves so seriously

With her bright laughing eyes
And that one of kind Dawn smile
O Lord, we all love Joseph’s Angel
Givin’ us reason to laugh in the middle o’Hell

OurDawny.jpg

Photo taken with an Olympus E600, lens Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6, 23 July 2011, by D. Denise Dianaty
This is one of my favorite pictures of our Dawny. It perfectly captures her bright laughing eyes and her signature mischievous twinkle in that one of kind Dawn smile – this picture, for me, captures the heart of the woman she was.
Poem © 23 July 2017, by D. Denise Dianaty
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Thank you. If you enjoyed this memoriam, I’d appreciate an upvote, please.

Very nicely written and it sounds and looks like she deserves your words.

Thanks. I really appreciate your comment. I still feel shattered ever time I think of her passing.