I Danced with My Mother
my mother came to me
last night in a dream
but she was no longer
an old woman
she had become
a young girl again
and she laughed
when she saw me
and some music started playing
she touched my arm
with her delicate fingers
and then we were dancing
moving in circles
inside an unfamiliar room
and I danced with my mother
until the music ended
and she laughed
one last time
and then she told me
she had to go
James Babbs has been writing for most of his life but he still manages to learn new things. He
has written hundreds of poems and a few short stories and has even had a few of them published.
More recently James has been indulging in writing haiku with a certain amount of success. He
still thinks about writing a novel someday but that just seems like an awful lot of words.
