EPITHALAMIUM: Visit the engagement or wedding announcements section of your newspaper and select a couple. Today’s paper yielded none, but there was a lovely story of a nearly 60 year union of Rudy and Lily Tenes. I chose them. Their story was much happier than the resulting poem.
Destiny?
Trust tested, turned dull
Unrest endured
Listened, stunned
Un-nested
Trust turns rusty,
Deny, deny, denied
Tired, tense, unruly
Resisted
Resented
Relentless
Suddenly silent inside
Tender is Untenderness
True is sullied, untrue
Less results in less ‘n less
True test resisted entry
Turn, turn, turn
Rudderless
Sourced from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 13, 2014. (The Lady and the Bullfighter: A Love Story, Rudy and Lily Tenes)
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Kate Moore’s passion is literacy, and she serves as a mentor teacher and staff developer throughout the greater Bay Area. Kate served three terms as the City of San Ramon's Poet Laureate (2012-2018); she also teaches poetry writing workshops and is an instructor in the Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership (MATL) program at St. Mary’s College of California. She was honored as SRVUSD Teacher of the Year in 2007 and San Ramon Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year in 2009. Kate holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from California State University, East Bay, an M.A. in Teacher Leadership from St. Mary’s and a B.A. in English Education from SUNY Albany. She and Bob Moore are the proud parents of four beautiful grown daughters, and the smitten grandparents of six beautiful children who fill them with hope for the future.
