Thursday, November 17, 2011

Amazing Things

POETRY JAM

Please use this photograph by Dorthea Lange as your prompt to compose a poem this week. You may reproduce it in your blog and use this credit:

Photograph of Florence Thompson with three of her children by Dorthea Lange, 1936. Reproduced from The Commons on Flickr with use restricted to personal, educational or research purposes.

Amazing things

Children are amazing things
and a mother knows its true.
She hopes her love can be enough,
a quilt, to see them through.

She wonders if the loves enougn
when the cotton and wool are thin.
Where the baby starts in life,
is never up to them.

7 comments:

  1. very mobbing and true. Your sweet baby painting goes well with this prompt.

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  2. Lovely Rae Ann!! Such a charming painting, and so true of motherhood!

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  3. Enjoyed your work, picture and poem; thanks.

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  4. Mother love has a powerful warmth of its own. Thank you for contributing to Poetry Jam.

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  5. Yes a mother's hope and love is a powerful thing....love this beautiful poem!

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  6. ...mobbing? I meant moving. I think love is about the only thing that saw them through!

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  7. such a sweet poem :) children are amazing!

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