Love, Friendship & Family

by Lady Madeline Rose

I’m so lucky to have found you.
We may have traveled side by side;
Not knowing we’d have a clue,
That we’d be together later, after my father died.

Lady Madeline Rose has just come out with a book of poetry, “Love, Friendship, & Family.” On her Acknowledgments page, she thanks family members, a poet colleague, and friends who helped her and supported her. Love that she was given. Love that she gave. Love that she sought. And even love that she rejected–all of that is within her collection. It is predominantly focused upon the pursuit of Love on a personal level. Its ups and downs.

Since the 12th-century, romance in Western Literature has held its own. Prior to that, the warrior was praised and sung about. As I age, I find Lady Madeline Rose’s focus preferable to heroic sagas. Love discovered or recovered is always better to pursue than war. Never mind the claim about a certain face launching 1000 ships.

The book wends its way through trying relationships which totter between rejection and validation. Eventually, Love does find its way to bolster up a relationship. Friendship holds a domain of its own and helps Lady Madeline as she moves through the precarious straits of Love. Behind it all and as a base is the Love her parents held for each other and herself.

~daithi’

Read the earlier post on Lady Madeline Rose (aka Teresa Poquette,) a member of the Poetry Society of Vermont who often shares her poetry at the monthly meeting of the PSOV Online Poetry Group.