{"id":452,"date":"2016-11-10T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:55:48","slug":"in-memory-of-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/in-memory-of-my-father\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of my father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My father died in 2011 at the age of 93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote the poem Deepest Shade in 2010 as he was losing the ability to communicate with us. I set it to music soon after. It is finally getting a performance on an inspired concert program by Triad<\/a> titled Music for a Lifetime<\/em>. Although it is a piece very much about mourning, it finds the perfect place on this wonderful concert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Triad: Boston’s Choral Collective<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

November 19, 2016 8:00pm, Harvard Epworth Church, 1555 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
November 20, 2016 8:00pm, Nave Gallery, 155 Powder House Blvd, Somerville, MA
(Concert info<\/a>, Triad info<\/a>, Triad on Facebook<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dad
Dad and Pam outside Coleman House watching Northboro’s Apple Fest parade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Deepest Shade<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Pamela Marshall   April 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long, far and long, and longing
with outstretched arm
for fading light —
it’s evening, the long twilight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

words are songs
is thought
is what I know<\/p>\n\n\n\n

becoming what
I do not know
fading fading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

word become<\/p>\n\n\n\n

song become
our refrain is
minor sadder softer oscuro olvido<\/p>\n\n\n\n

repeat repeat repeat
by heart — memorized — do not let go
engrave it in a stone-like permanence
never to forget
until night falls
and shadows put my dreams in deepest shade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Dad
Dad visiting with us around 1986<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dad
Dad at home in spring 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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