Last Updated: November 01, 2004
Lucie Dendurent, who passed away Oct. 8, 2000 (recorded as Oct. 9), was a a prolific poet. The following two poems were read as part of her memorial service at Leeds, Massachusetts, on October 14. The first was written some six months after Lucie's own mother, Sara Van Benthuysen McIntosh, had died.
Memoriam
From every room we called her, from the garden,
And always her glad cries rang through the years,
And then one summer morning no one answered.
None came to share our joys, or dry our tears.
Yet in our saddened rooms and hearts and gardens,
Not memories and grief alone remain,
But hope that in God's new world we will gather,
And she will answer when we call again.
(January 22, 1956)
Fairy Drift
"Who turns the moon on, Mamma? Is the night
A big dark blanket, really? and the grass?
Your eyes have stars in them sometimes, all bright
And Mom, the flowers whisper when you pass."
I cannot count the glories of my days,
Describe the bubbling spring of lively joys:
I have been given leprechauns to raise
Who took the form of lyrical small boys.
(August 17, 1948)