Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Mom .....


Here are all your children in one place

Enshrined behind some glass within a frame

A picture's like a word, a sign, a name

Symbolic of a much more complex grace

Years of memories lie behind each face

A wild sea no blessing can contain

Years and years of love, of joy, of pain

Of mysteries no heart can hope to trace

Here are all the objects of your love

A frozen section cut away from Time

A summit between dreams and memories

Which you need only look this way to climb

An icon for domestic reveries

Through which a thousand answered prayers move

5 comments:

Lani said...

What a beautiful little shrine, Nini.

Gypsy Purple said...

So beautiful...ek pik `n traan

Anonymous said...

Daar is net een soos sy, en dankie dat jy 'n stukkie van haar met my deel

Anonymous said...

Stunning poem, the roots of the family tree have a story to tell hey?

Anonymous said...

..and who's that ugly dude with the alcohol in his hand?