Odes from a Daughter: Volume 1
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A brief tome of poetry and essays written to remember a remarkable woman/mother/grandmother who endured much emotional and physical pain and suffering in her lifetime but nonetheless loved intensely and persevered until her last breath to rear a family that strives to carry on her legacy of kindness.
Margie Jimenez
I love to read and I love to write but of the two, my greater passion is writing. I aspire to write for a living and I'm working, albeit slowly, on completing my Bachelor's degree in Humanities with a concentration in Creative Writing. Interestingly enough the genre I love to read most, paranormal fantasy, is not what I write. I'd love to do it just not sure I have enough creativity for that so my specific genre is still evolving although I've dabbled in poetry and some fiction and non-fiction prose. Now to write...
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Odes from a Daughter - Margie Jimenez
Odes from a Daughter - Volume 1
A Brief Tome of Poetry and Essays from a Daughter's Heart
By Margie Jimenez
Published by Margie Jimenez at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Margie Jimenez
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Contents
Introduction
Discrimination
Odes from a Daughter
Abandoned
Even If
Disappointment
Broken Promises
Days of Weeping
Pancho and Other Creatures
My Last Name is not Con Edison
Dime con quien andas y te diré quién eres.
Death & Grief
Death is a Veil
I Remember Her as a Fighter
Introduction
Odes from a Daughter
is a compilation of my writings. Some of it is poetry and some of it is prose written in essay form. All of it has been written to honor my dear late mother, Norma Echevarria-Nater.
My mother, Norma grew up in Puerto Rico and immigrated to the United States when she was just an adolescent. She married and divorced before she was 30 years old and thereafter raised two young daughters on her own. Being a parent was her greatest joy in life. My mother who never knew her own father, having lost him while she was still an infant, felt his absence heavily her entire life. As such, her greatest desire was that her own children would experience what she never could - the steady presence of a loving and caring father. Unfortunately, this was not to be.
Her marriage didn't last long and our biological father's presence in our lives was inconsistent. In spite of that she tried really hard to make their relationship work, even after their divorce because her goal was always