Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone
Bones
By Jeanette Cheezum
Her bones are not lovely anymore. She turned one hundred yesterday. Outlived two husbands, short and tall, saw two sons and a granddaughter fight foolish wars. Always big money made them die. Helpless pawns in this world of greed.
Built a company by herself, and gave back to the community with what was left. Gracefully she tried to take them under her wing only to be disheartened, when they robbed her blind.
She held her head to the heavens, embracing a power that gave her the grace to carry those bones through one hundred years.
Jeanette Cheezum’s most recent poem to appear at vox poetica was Sisterhood of the Butterfly, published as part of Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae.
Jeanette is one of my favorite authors of both poetry and fiction, so it is with pleasure I see her here and get to read her “Confessional Diary of a Bone”!
Thanks, Sal.
Jeanette, You never disappoint! Enjoyed the truth and wisdom of this poem that gets down to the bones!
Well done, Jeanette. I did not know that you write fiction. Me too — flash and fairy tales.
Jeanette, Thanks for your kind comments.
Thank you, Bobbie. I don’t know how I missed the opportunity to do so.