Dorothy, May You Rest With Ease, Please Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

Dorothy A. Holmes, a true friend, almost like a mother,
from Poetfreak.com and Facebook,
a fervent poetess, died all of a sudden
the 21st March recently in her
hometown at Tappahannock, Virginia-USA.

leaving us all in deep sadness....

She loves poetry very much, who does not if
you´re writing poems constantly,
she sang also and led a poetry group called
"Poetry in Motion" and was also a water-color paintress.

She had still many things to do.
I had oft contact with her through email
as well as through messages.
If you write to her,
the same evening she sent you a response.
Her second name, she explained to me is Cynthia,
on Poetfreak she was known as The Poetess who can also sing,
she wrote that as an addition abbreviated after her own name
Dorothy A. Holmes: TPWALTS - The Poetess Who Also Loves To Sing-
now that "loves" becomes "loved" of course.

Please, read and mourn, since we are here
on Poemhunter as poets too,
just like she was and had always been,
then enjoy and I´ll remember her as she wished to be remembered,
she was a person with a warm heart and very sober.

Sylvia Frances Chan,
Dutch Poetess, Evangelist and World Traveler.



Tappanock, Virginia - USA.
Knew her on PF August 2011, after Poetry.Com was sold and closed
by Mr. Howard Ely from Owing Mills, near Baltimore in Maryland-USA
I had not heard that Mr. Ely Howard was gouing to sell the Poem Site. I think and in 2012 or was it in 2007? But the Poem site was sold to
LULU.COM in early 1999. Later appeared Mrs. Judy Lynn as Chief Editor of Who´s Who in Poetry International, sent me by email all my lost poems OR at least a few of my many lost poems. I was very glad to get back some poems (13 poems or so) . Mr. Howard got our poems and sold the Poem Site to LULU.Com which was very commercial. Then came Mrs. Judy Lynn from LA in California-USA. I was happy with her arrival,
at least she proposed to publish poems and I must write a new poem which had never been publishedelsewhere. Dorothy, she is a true North American citizen, had never such mean publisher(s) like Mr-Howard, I reckon, but never mind
IF I had not gone through all these awful experiences,
probably I won´t meet Dorothy on Poetfreak owned by Johannes.

Yes, it felt as if Dorothy was our Mother on Poetfreak.
That felt good and cozy. I know too good that she was always
talking cum laude and with pride about her old age and brilliant
health and good condition.
I have written all these about Dorothy and me,
so that the readers here on Poemhunter.com
will know a biot about how Dorothy and I were related as best poet-
friends. Thank you for reading,
with love,

Sylvia Farnces Chan
Dutch Poetess
The Netherlands
Today it is beautiful weather.