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Centering
by Wayne Bien → (All Poetry by Wayne Bien)
Wednesday, August 26, 2015    Not rated by the Author.
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A potter's spiritual journey.

 

The mud pot I made

put on the porch to dry.

Swept away by my mother ,

“It makes a mess.”

 

My first ceramic pot,

slip cast with pointed handles,

decrypted looking but mine.

Found buried in a drawer.

 

Raku bowls hidden away,

“They have big cracks in them.”

Part of the process

the form is the beauty.

 

The Christmas gift of little crocks

to match her Early American décor,

stuffed in drawers

never to be scene.

 

This was my mother,

the person

I was never able

to please.


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Reviewed by Connie Faust
Reviewed on July 4, 2016
How sad. I have some ugly, but treasured, objects made by my children. Just last week, I was trying to glue 2 legs back onto a lopsided clay turtle made by a grandchild. Your mother missed out on a valuable connection between parent and child, when the parent values every effort to please. Forgive her. She was concerned with the opinions of others, perhaps lacking self-esteem and needing their approval, just as you needed hers.

Connie


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