Each year a homemade card, each year a poem
I am a poet who for many, many years have created my Christmas cards centered around my messages. This year, my granddaughter’s face inspired me (and of course our battle with the virus).
Each day she awakens
her eyes focus on the light
She sees her world
as a kaleidoscope of form
The brightest being the one
she explores
All the darkness dissolves
the shadows fade from view
The color of God summons her
into a new wonderment-
the priceless gift of being alive
I want to be her
I want the joy back
I want to run barefoot in the snow,
to keep icicles in my pockets,
race the dog through the trees,
Let go of this never ending pain
Just ahead of us
Just a bit beyond our fingers
is the day star
Slanted sideways across the sky
mounted on the universal dreampost
of who we really are…
reach
pattyv
Lovely picture and sentiments. The James Webb telescope launched today, to look back to the beginnings of our universe. Wonders never cease.
Hi Patty, welcome back to Retrospect! This is a lovely poem, and I’m glad you included a picture of your granddaughter, who inspired you. I especially love the lines “I want to be her / I want the joy back” – so evocative. Hope you will keep writing.
Thanx Patty for this lovely poem and the phoyo of the lovely grandchild who inspired it.
May we always keep reaching!
Best wishes for the holidays and the new year.
Very lovely, Patty, and it’s nice to know another grandchild is a party of the Retrospect community.
A beautiful message. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you for sharing this poem, which captures how many of us feel. I hope your granddaughter’s beautiful face encounters a world worth of it soon.
Beautiful capture of the perfect fragility of infancy. How we must have all soaked it in, the foreground the brightest! I also loved how you bridged the gap between the perceptions of infancy and the recollections from adulthood. The day star mounted on the dreampost… knockout beautiful. And what a beautiful child!
Lovely!