“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”–Hodding Carter
William Hodding Carter II (February 3, 1907 – April 4, 1972) was a prominent Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author. Carter was born in Hammond, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana, to William Hodding Carter I (1881–1955), and the former Irma Dutartre. Among other distinctions in his career, Carter was a Nieman Fellow.
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Diane and Mom 11-24-09
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Tagged holiday poems, holidays, Moms, Mother's Day, poem
This is from my poetry collection “Light Through Shuttered Window”.
Broken Wing
by Diane Tegarden © 2007
Infallible, invincible, an angel of quiet mercy,
that’s who I thought she was.
Hands and arms to hold me,
to smooth my angered brow,
to hush my tears
and cool the fever of deepest pain.
Childish dreams,
broken on the wheel of my father’s self-hate,
the wheel crushing all those around him.
Who would dare
to question his judgment,
his actions, his words?
I would dare.
While those around me
would stare into their empty lap,
agreeing ever so silently
(With me?)
(With him?)
Yet in truth, the silence was their acceptance
of his awful, all encompassing authority,
his ignorance, his guilt.
Since only my voice
was raised against him,
I was the target of his rage.
Red hot and uncontrolled,
his hand would breach
that impossibly wide
gap between us.
He hit me in the face.
I had dared.
His hate, restless, mere violence no outlet,
he would verbally stab
at my every character weakness,
feeling strength in sounding my deepest wounds,
he would stab again and again,
screaming vicious, cruel lies at the tiny child within.
I believed him.
Eventually, after his anger was spent
after his fury had savaged my childish senses,
my protecting angel, would finally appear by my side,
to
silence
me.
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Tagged Diane Tegarden, Light Through Shuttered Window, painful poetry, poems, poetry
The Crystal Heart
By Diane Tegarden
1984
Once I was a child, laughing at the world.
I knew that I would learn and love,
to live and give,
and- win!
I boldly walked, then danced, then ran,
so free and strong and brave.
I knew that life was full of wonder,
and I was not afraid.
The child went out into the world,
the world that really is,
A large and somewhat frightful place,
where you must earn- and sin.
The paths I took, well, some were hard,
the ways of innocence, severed.
The child
a woman became.
Then I was a woman,
hot, bright and full of life.
But years of living dangerously
turned wishes into strife.
Many times I’ve made mistakes
giving of deepest self.
It finally tore my heart from me,
it sat upon a lonely shelf.
A man whose story matches mine,
had such a crystal heart.
He bound it in a place of steel,
to hide the emptiness.
Then when we met, we saw a light
reflected in each other’s eyes,
embers of fires burning low.
The glass begins to fill again-
we know.
This poem, and many others, can be found in my book “Light Through Shuttered Window” a compendium of my collected poetry, songs and stories.
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This article is about my sister, Emily, who I am so very proud of! Please leave any comments and likes right on the “Today’s Honoree” web page, thanks!
http://todayshonoree.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/todays-honoree-is-life-saver-emily-irene-valencia/
It seems that from infancy (women in particular) are taught that they are only half a person, that another person is needed to “complete” them, that they will be 100% only when another person is in their lives. Is it no wonder then, that many women get engaged and married young, barely out of high school, in order to fill up the emptiness inside?
This kind of pressure on a partner, to be the “other half”, is one of the reasons that many marriages breakup, the pressure to be someone’s “everything” becomes too much, and the partner feels drowned in the needs of the spouse.
Don’t believe for a second that there is only one (otherwise known as THE ONE) person who will love you. That doesn’t even make sense, in a world of over 7 billion people, the chances that there is more than one person capable of loving you is very likely!
Allow a relationship to grow through each of you becoming as whole as possible before you find a partner, then that relationship has a better chance of being a lasting partnership than if you depend on your spouse to fill up your emptiness.
(I’ve been married more than once and the last one is working out because I finally fixed the “holes’ in myself before getting married again.)
The Storm (Oct 2000)
by Diane Tegarden
Wind in the trees, whispering invitations
“come with me, pleeeease”
a sigh, then surrender,
she is willing.
The snake is coiled at the base of our souls
we charm her awake, tease her, then rock and roll,
in a riotous moment
we tumble into the storm.
A lightning bolt of energy rushes through my inner core
as the snake rises up and flies away,
reborn, a dragon of the sky.
While we ride the dragon upon that wild wind
we are high above all the demons of earth.
Too soon, we must wend our way back down,
the dragon will alight. We climb down.
Look around, I’ll be with you
in the calm
after
the storm.
Written for my beautiful man, Wade Webb.
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Hey all, I wanted to turn you onto a fantastic slideshow that my next radio host put together for our interview. On Nov 1st, I’ll be interviewed by Todd Weaver on his WEBE Radio Show about the problem of domestic violence at 2:30pm PST/3:30pm MST/4:30pm CST/5:30pm EST. Here’s a link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/webe/2012/11/01/diane-tegarden-domestic-violence-author
Do you know?
05/14/??
I used to wash my face in tears,
they would hide my shame.
I shook an angry fist at the sky,
to understand why
I must hurt so inside.
Those were the years of caring for ones
with hearts of stone,
but they could never love me
they pushed me aside
they left me alone.
I ran away from them
that was all I could do…
Do you know,
I have missed you
for longer than I have known you?
For all those in my past
who used me when they needed me,
for those I begged to let me stay,
for all the times I wished to die,
to quietly slip away…
I now have sweetness in my life
a feeling that is new.
Do you know,
I have loved you
for longer than I have known you?
I used to call ex-lovers
just to say hello.
The same old wound
was there to see
those lovers that never wanted me.
In days gone by,
I would drown in the hurt,
it was a cloak, covering me.
Now I see only you
protecting me.
I have found my hearts desire,
I stand in my love’s healing fire.
Do you know,
I have everything
now that I know you?
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