May's Mother's Day: a song

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Being 72, both my parents passed away a long time ago and I am now older than either of them at their death. Nevertheless, Mother's Day, in particular, always brings back my mother to my mind as surely as if she were standing beside me with my father. And, the feeling of nostalgia is not just limited to Mother's Day. I find that her imprint on my psyche is with me everyday of my life. For this reason, I wrote this Mother's Day triolet on 29 May 2022 with the same structure as a traditional fixed-form French triolet. The melody to which I sing the triolet acapella as a song was created by me at the same time. The photograph that appears is that of my mother, father, younger sister, and me some 70 years ago. I uploaded a different version to YouTube with a different image in 2022 (https://youtu.be/yc66XhfIZbQ ). However, becoming dissatisfied with it, I remastered the sound track and changed the image and placement of the poem's text on the 18th and 19th of April, 2023. Not wishing to delete what I already have a copyright to that is on YouTube, but considering this version to be significantly better, I decided to upload it to Rumble only. The video edit as well as the acapella singing of the triolet in both the YouTube version and the Rumble version were also both done by myself with no input by anyone else.

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