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Deliberately Debbie

Writer of the Month

Joyce Mason

Joyce Mason is an eclectic writer who published her first poems in the 1970s. In the same era, she taught budding bards in California’s Poetry in the Schools program. More recently, she just completed her first book, a memoir called Hot Flashbacks, Cool Insights. For more of Joyce’s writings and links to her blogs, visit her Writer Joyce Mason website.

YOUR HANDWRITING

Neat and beautiful,

penned perfectly

across a year’s worth of cards

scattered on my desk,

your handwriting paints

a gorgeous sunset

onto my home office landscape.

Loving notes fill Valentine’s,

anniversary, birthday cards.

But by autumn

your handwriting was shaky.

There were no more cards

with your signature.

You were gone just past Thanksgiving:

now only memories

and Hallmark

to remind me what you wrote

in big letters across my heart.

© 2009 by Joyce Mason

Written 31-Dec--2001

Pay a visit to Joyce here: www.joycemason.com

It has a poetry section and links to her Blogs.

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