Dennis L. Siluk's New Stories and Poetry: Out to Old Aunt Betty’s ((A Minnesota Poem) (Poetic Prose))

Dr. Dennis L. Siluk’s has published 72-International Book. He is a poet since twelve years old, a writer, Psychologist, Ordained Minister, Decorated Veteran from the Vietnam War, Doctor in Arts and Education, and Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Central Peru, UNCP. He was nominated Poet Laureate in Peru. One of his books, “The Galilean”, took Honorable Mention at the 2016 Paris Book Festival and received an award from the Congress of Peru, for his cultural writings.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Out to Old Aunt Betty’s ((A Minnesota Poem) (Poetic Prose))

First picture, Left, Elsie (1920-2003) the author’s mother; and to the right, Aunt Betty (1985); the second picture, left

Is the author, with his older brother (Mike), around 1957?

Wasn’t it something, brother of mine, in those far-off days of lost

time—

Our youth, when the weekends came, out to old Aunt Betty’s we

went visiting—playing cards, or Monopoly?

It all comes back to me today, —as I am old, and you are gray.

Yet we patter from day to day, awry…

Why, I can see us now, in the kitchen, cardboard table, a deck of

cards

And her face, and your face and my face too, and there is mother

drinking coffee, Betty also…

#3866 (4-21-2013)

Note: here the poet tries to convey in the simplest language the richness of the world around us, in this case one that is part of the past.