Some questions

TSL Pandorathon Prompt May 12 (given by Nandini Mehra )

Today’s prompt is about something we live with all our lives, our names. 

You can write about:

Your name/surname/married name and how it connects to your gender and/or identity.

or 

An exploration of a different name for yourself, one that you would choose. 

Poems or prose ( not more than 500 words) welcome. Brevity will be appreciated. 📷

Some questions 

What is in a name? A case of identity?

A calling, I wonder. Lucette is my name. 

Mother wished a different one, 

Carmen to be mine.

The matriarch of the family overrode her,

Unfortunately I don’t know the story

Both of them have disappeared 

In the mist of the past.

Learning Latin during the pandemic 

It was with surprise I learnt

Carmen is a song, poem or poetry.

Is it a coincidence I end up

Pottering in poetry?

Was is fate? 

Was my mother a seer?

I guess I’ll never know.

My grandmother Lucie

Being a strong woman

Passed her name

To her daughter and me

I admit I broke the tradition.

Still I like to think

My mother had chosen well.

Maybe my second name 

Turns to be Carmen after all.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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