I’m not dying yet - at least I hope not! - but I find myself ‘listening’ closely to those echoes more and more as I make my way thru my 60s. - Jenine Bsharah Baines

…once a boisterous drumbeat, 
now murmured a fading lullaby,
in the hushed space between breaths, he questioned the echoes of his life,
has he been a good father, a good husband, a good human being,
he yearned to believe, that despite…
A Death Poem
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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May 14, 2024
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I’m not dying yet - at least I hope not! - but I find myself ‘listening’ closely to those echoes more and more as I make my way thru my 60s.
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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