G Bennett Humphrey | Author

  • Home
  • Books
  • Bio
  • News
  • Poetry
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Books
  • Bio
  • News
  • Poetry
  • Contact

Poetry

Passages

5/18/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Note to Reader

My parents were both avid readers and bed time was a chance for my mother to share her love of books with me.  It also a quiet time, no distractions, only my mother's voice.   That time from childhood would carry over into my adult years.  Here’s a poem about that entitled 
Passages

She made my bed in the morning
so, at night when I crawled in
​
the covers were all arranged,
yet there was that reassuring ritualistic tuck.

Bed time stories,
poems when I was six,
were read to me 
when I was very young. 

Another safe passage
into the night, in a snug place;
I was never afraid
of the dark.

Those tucks, those words were there
for later passages
many foreboding
all in the dark.

I still have 
the books and a blanket.
When all is quiet in my head
I can still hear her voice - reading.

--------------------------------------------------------
​
The Magpie Cried by Ben Humphrey
Finishing Line Press p 7, 2013

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Ben Humphrey is a retired professor of pediatric oncology. He started to write poems in 2005. His poems have appeared in American and European journals. In 2013, he was chosen as Colorado's Senior Poet Laureate by the Angels Without Wings Foundation. (Monterrey, CA)

    Archives

    June 2017
    May 2017

    Categories

    All
    Childhood
    Mothers
    Poems
    Reading

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly