Gasping your first breath on a cold fall day,
your hazel eyes greeted my blue.
A strand of my hair locked tight in your grasp,
I let my heart bleed into yours.
We ran together through the scarlet leaves,
our dance tinged with memories of gold.
You showed me the starry night,
the seashell warmed by the sun,
the bumpy edge of a lizard’s back.
I showed you the edge of time.
Still we giggled and breathed in the wide open sky,
as it dripped into our lungs
we drowned,
wrapped in sparkling silver threads,
laden with love’s pure promise.
I dream to be rescued
but only as a brown speck
floating in the soft moss-green of your eyes,
so I may see what I’ve always known to be,
I am you and you are me.
A beautiful child.
She's A Maineiac 
Beautiful Child, beautiful words
And I thank you, Dave for a beautiful comment!
I am so touched by these words. Very lovely, Darlingale. Very lovely.
This ALMOST made me forget that I am furious with WordPress because my reader appears to be badly broken AGAIN. None of my favorites are showing up in my reader and with my addled brain I can barely figure out who I am following (or why). Going to unsubscribe and resubscribe now…
I’ve been hearing about Reader problems, too, so I emailed the WP Help Desk overlords on Thursday, but still haven’t gotten a reply…
My reader is screwy too! I don’t see lots of people–like Jules and Darla. 😦
Yup, the reader isn’t working for me either. I’ve missed several posts over the past few weeks. Grrr!
This reminds me of so many happy memories of our two girls growing up. Beautiful words, Darla. I love how you recapture those moments that are so special. So personal, and, yet, so universal.
I was struggling to come up with an accurate way to describe my feelings watching my son grow up. And you’re right, it’s universal, whether you’re a parent or not. We were all once children (and are still children deep inside).
This is wonderful, DP! Breathtaking (and not in the Seinfeld baby way). I was completely swept away by the last verse especially.
heehee! Seinfeld baby! That made me laugh. Good stuff. The last verse was my favorite too and that just rolled out with no effort so I knew it was getting my point across.
You’ve done it again, Darla. Such beautiful words.
Thanks, Elyse. I wanted to use another word other than beautiful, but dammit, it just fits my feelings perfectly.
it’s a good word 😉
I agree with Jules–this is breathtaking–what the heck are you going to school to be a nurse for–you are a wonderful writer and poet (let me guess–you want to eat)
Oh, if only I didn’t have to eat! You got that right. Thanks for saying so, though.
just the truth, m’am, just the truth
This absolutely gorgeous imagery. I want more! 🙂
I am working on another so-called ‘poem’ right now and this one is going in a completely different direction–it’s going to be funny and I’m going to read it aloud in a vlog. You’ve been warned.
FYI, I didn’t want to whine about things after reading such touching prose, so i waited a while. This didn’t show up in my reader either. I’m going to drop you and re-follow in hopes that it works.
I saw in my email both you and k8edid ‘followed’ me and I thought, huh, that’s odd. They didn’t like my blog until now?? (are you still recovering from FP?)
On the one hand, I’m thrilled to have harvested a ton of new followers, on the other hand, I’m not sure they’ll matter is WordPress doesn’t manage to get their Reader functioning properly.
For reasons unknown, WordPress has deactivated my blog and I cannot access any of it. I have written several times seeking clarification without success. All 124 of my posts are no longer accessible to me, and I cannot write new ones. Apparently they see nothing wrong with suspending a blog on a Sunday morning without having any staff available to explain what happened. I have no idea if I’ll ever get back on here.
I’ve enjoyed (hopefully) entertaining my readers and being enlightened by other writers. I hope to be back on here as soon as possible with a new post I just wrote this morning.
I’m not optimisitic this will be resolved, as it has been quite some time since the suspension and no one has contacted me to resolve it.
My actual name is David Lovett. If this doesn’t get fixed, please be on the lookout for the novel which I’m writing. Without a blog to post on, I’ll finally have the time to finish it.
Love you, miss you.
Dave
What the?? Unreal! Dave, that is so bizarre. You get FP’d, then you disappear completely?? I hope you get a response from WP soon. I think my heart would stop if I went to log on my blog and saw nothing. Keep us posted.
I have no words except…beautiful!
Y’know, I have to admit the word beautiful says it all for me, Rachel, thank you!
So incredibly beautiful. Actually, beautiful doesn’t even come close! I love when you write poems.
Hit “publish comment” too soon. Anyway, this should be published. It’s so lovely, so heartfelt, so breathtaking, so full of imagery, so full of love… Ahhh, I wish I could write like that.
Lily, of course you can, and you do! I’ve read your stuff and it’s good!
Beautiful, I love it!
Really lovely. As a mom of green eyed sons, sons who I miss every single day, this made me cry. Really hard.
But in a good way!
Well done!
I hope, Darla, as my mom struggles to live, that the last line of your poem is true–for then she will truly always be with me. I have two sisters, and I keep thinking that between the three of us, we somehow must make up the best in her–whole and complete. I so want to keep her here on this earth with me….
I know in my heart that it is true. My dad is still with me and always will be, that love never fades or changes or goes away. Thinking of both you and your mom. Huge hugs to you.
Just beautiful, Darla! I love the last line in particular.
Looking forward to reading more poems from you. 🙂
A truly wonderful work, magnificently crafted. Well done, my lady, well done indeed!
Wonderfully done, love the imagery
Wow. Wow. Beautiful.
Beautiful work of art…
This is so very lovely! Thank you for having the courage to show so much of your beautiful heart.
Please re-post this on Mother’s Day.
Darla, this is absolutely spiritual and soul-chasing. I love it, every word. You are so talented from one spectrum to the other! Lots of hugs from (warm) Cali. 😉 XOXO-SWM
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