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A Niece Remembers

In Memoriam

Aunt Eileen (Brandon) Giffen

April’s child, she arrived

with the hope of spring and

 promises of apple blossoms and

summer raspberry pies,

streams fragrant with laughter

and melodies tuned to the robin’s song.

 

Hers was a hat of many feathers—

wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, friend,

farmer, business entrepreneur.

 

Her doors always open, her table

a banquet bouquet of home grown bounty

wild flowers, the sweet

scented fruits of  her labor.

 

She was a listener, a doer—

present,

centered, poised, never imposing—

fully attentive

to all who came her way.

 

The last of five uniquely

fascinating sisters and one brother—

 (my Dad,  who worshiped

 the ground on which she walked)—

Eileen was the

Mother Oak legacy

of our Ma and Pa Brandon.

 

Little wonder this snappy young gal

with the flashing brown eyes,

as pretty as pretty could be,

 caught the eye of the

handsome young Frank

(whom she married).

 

With Frank came merriment

 children, orchards, barns,  hayrides,

chickens, swimming ponds, weiner roasts and

abiding faith.

 

Deeply loved and mutually cherished they

reaped to sow the seeds

of many a rich harvest.

 

Work well done,

 she chose

  to leave with the lambs of March

but will live on

in the meadows of my mind

winged within

a personal pantheon of angels

whose Light and Wisdom arrives 

(when called)

to brighten the way along

this  oft rough Earthly path.

 

**

 

©Dolores Brandon Thompson 2018 (niece)

 

 

 

 

Posted by Dolores Brandon Thompson
Sunday March 11, 2018 at 12:21 pm
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