Pain and suffering endured giving life
love and happiness enveloping youth
kindness and guidance given throughout the years
content and fearless as her death nears
tears of sorrow shed as she departs
tears of joy as time brings spirits to reunite
mother and children together in everlasting life
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Sublime composition... "Mother" glows.
In admiration,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU