I am so thankful for today's NaPoWriMo prompt: "Today, we’d like to challenge you to write an elegy – a poem typically written in honor or memory of someone dead. But we’d like to challenge you to write an elegy that has a hopefulness to it." It gives me the treasured opportunity to share the baby I always remember and the hope anchored in my heart through my baby's life. Following are the poem I wrote as I grieved being separated from my baby and the poem I write today... Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Our Baby We loved you from the first, hardly believing our blessing. From two, we now were three! What was to come we did no know. You were with me always, a miracle wrapped up close… But one of those moments you slipped away and we did not know. Your daddy spoke to you, gently, with excited joy. You were already gone, but we did not know. I played my harp for you, wondering when your ears could hear. You were already gone, but we did not know. We hoped and prayed for you, waiting to hear your heartbeat. My womb was already a tomb, but we did not know. Will we one day be with you? hear your heart and see your smile? My heart, not knowing, weeps. But I know God knows. Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Our Baby ...and only God knew how I would hear you in your sister's song and hold you in your rose blossom placed in her golden curls how I would feel you in your brother's kiss and smell you in his milk-sweet skin you are forever cradled 4/25/2018 01:31:01 am
So much love! So much talent and beauty! Thanks for sharing.
Nelson
5/2/2018 06:46:09 am
Two wonderful Tuesday poems. The first one made me tear up but the second one made me smile. The second one redeemed the first as God redeems us all and turns our mourning into dancing. Comments are closed.
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AuthorHi! My name is Martina, and I write picture books, riddles, limericks, additional poems, and puppet shows. I taught first grade, second grade, and kindergarten in the United States and now live in Switzerland where I enjoy good stories and poems with my husband and our three children. Archives
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