Morning light
this child's face
turned to me in morning light
sleepy eyes like soft stones
under water,
sun alight on the curve of cheek,
curls splashed across the pillow
as on a warm sand bank —
my heart rushes like the river
a face
turned like this,
in light refracted
through watery glass,
is a breath,
is a prayer,
is a heartbeat
turned to me in morning light
sleepy eyes like soft stones
under water,
sun alight on the curve of cheek,
curls splashed across the pillow
as on a warm sand bank —
my heart rushes like the river
a face
turned like this,
in light refracted
through watery glass,
is a breath,
is a prayer,
is a heartbeat
posted by MB at 9:28 AM
15 Comments:
I love those first four lines so much. Sleepy eyes like soft stones.
I can see her face, and feel how love wells up in you when you look at her. Beautiful
I like so much the last two lines of the first stanza with the use of "warm sandbank" and "heart rushes like a river". Lovely.
and the whole poem is beautiful ...
You have it -that moment, the beauty, the overflow of love... beautiful.
Everything that's mentioned above, and how innocent they look when they first awake, even my two boys!
alan
MB,
"...eyes like soft stones underwater..."
Very dreamlike and evocative.
(o)
Las Madres encienden
Los ojos de la luz
Puede ablandar piedra
Ningun nina sin
Ningun nina sola
A Mothers Light
Eyes of light
Can soften stone
No child without
No child alone
Que Linda Azulejo! Que Linda!
I see the stones under the water. Though their shape is slightly distorted, they are brighter with your love's water pouring over them. Beautiful analogy to sunlight.
so, so beautiful- wow! to be reminded to look on my child with this kind of love is a great gift. thank you.
what lovely imagery. you are a wordsmith indeed.
Very nice!
Gorgeous. Elegant. Splendid. Perfect.
Thank you all so much for these wonderful comments. I'm pleased you saw what I did.
The magic of watching a child sleeping, you expressed this so well, it is such a spiritual feeling
Sue, yes, it can be breathtaking.
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