Heart's Wish Stargazer Lilies
by Nancy Medina
10X10
Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas
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Heart's Wish is a tribute to the fading lilies in my studio tonight. The past few days I've spent with my mother, who was in great spirits and full of her regular pip and vinegar and wit and laughter. I mentioned to her that it is the 100th birthday of the Poetry Anthology, and how I wished we could find her spiral notebooks filled with her poetry. She told me there were poems all over the house. I said, really, where mom? She said, "They're everywhere!" Then she began reciting poems she had written decades ago, sharing one with my 20 year old niece Robin and I that she had written when Robin was a baby. I still have not been able to find her spiral notebook filled with poems, but I realized my mother was absolutely right. Her home is filled with poetry, and beauty, and memories that are going to last longer than time, because she is there.
Heart's Wish is a tribute to the fading lilies in my studio tonight. The past few days I've spent with my mother, who was in great spirits and full of her regular pip and vinegar and wit and laughter. I mentioned to her that it is the 100th birthday of the Poetry Anthology, and how I wished we could find her spiral notebooks filled with her poetry. She told me there were poems all over the house. I said, really, where mom? She said, "They're everywhere!" Then she began reciting poems she had written decades ago, sharing one with my 20 year old niece Robin and I that she had written when Robin was a baby. I still have not been able to find her spiral notebook filled with poems, but I realized my mother was absolutely right. Her home is filled with poetry, and beauty, and memories that are going to last longer than time, because she is there.
