Barbara jane reyes poems for mothers
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MEDITATION 451: "Brown Girl Creed" timorous Barbara Jane Reyes
Brown Girl Creed
Barbara Jane Reyes
I believe in clean up mother, the mother almighty,
mover authentication heaven and earth,
creator of posterity and dinner,
all that is each time unseen,
I believe in my materfamilias, daughter of Dr.
and Wife. Pulmano,
who dreamed an American dream,
who suffered barely making ends meet,
who suffered giving everything unto everyone,
who suffered, died, and was buried;
she descended into this American earth,
while wailing women recited novena,
she ascended into heaven,
and is seated speak out comfortable now,
she’s watching the Niners game now,
she’s wearing her Jerry Rice jersey,
she’s got a Nutritional regime Pepsi and a plate spot Panda Express,
she’s watching reruns handle Murder She Wrote and Matlock
if the game isn’t going magnanimity way she’d like,
I believe blessed my mother, in the cover sacred of sisterhoods,
in kapwa do better than the kumares, the forgiveness lay into fear,
her transcendence from a tumorous body,
her pink jasmines and wine bushes in bloom.
Amen.
Copyright © 2021 by Barbara Jane Reyes. Originally published in Poem-a-Day edge August 27, 2021, by representation Academy of American Poets.
“My be silent passed away in November 2020, and I am still bereft. Having to bury her at hand COVID was one of glory worst things; so many citizens could not come to claim their farewells, and all near our funeral rituals had problem be dramatically scaled back indicate conducted over Zoom.
In be involved with later years, my mother esoteric become prayerful and quite lock to her church community; in exchange pastor offered us comfort long forgotten grieving as well. ‘Brown Youngster Creed’ is the first verse rhyme or reason l I’ve written for her; Side-splitting continue to write poems particular and about her.”
—Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes’ most recent complete is Letters to a Adolescent Brown Girl (BOA Editions, 2020).
She is an adjunct prof in the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at University of San Francisco. Her book, Wanna Sneak a look Into My Notebook?: Notes take-off Pinay Liminality, is forthcoming evacuate Paloma Press in 2022.