I’m moving a few things around on “the sands, getting rid of ballast and setting sail, which as a reader, means more regular focus on my blog categories, so more poetry, children’s book reviews and pieces on raising a child with autism along with the intuitive segue that I usually follow. I’ll be getting rid of the letterwriting category, though I still may write about it, particularly as it pertains to the transcriptions of WWI letters on the Dear Colina blog and the book that my husband and I want to make of them.
It’s good to do a bit of house-keeping, don’t you think? Meanwhile, I’ll also be looking at some children’s literature author interviews, as well as getting some other people to write some short pieces of creative or memoir writing on the blog so, lots to look forward to, yay! To kick things off, here is a little poem that I recently wrote. Hope you like it.
You never wrote me a love song,
but you serenaded me
once you wrote a poem
about my naked body,
only a hundred years ago.
It’s a different body now.
having grown and birthed your
babies, boy then girl,
planned mysteries both. I rather
loved the swell and curve of my
gravid body, it was a love song all
it’s own.
A child is not a love song,
that we wrote together,
a child is so much more than that,
genes mingled,
yours and mine,
entwined in these
mysterious ways.
Let me post this whisper
through the bedroom door:
I never needed the gentle strum
of guitar laden offerings,
and the past is a path of
softened yesterdays. Here,
today, is you and I and these two.
How’s your housekeeping going? What is inspiring you? Have you ever been serenaded? Mine was at my wedding on his knees!
Linking up with Essentially Jess for #IBOT
Tagged: Dear Colina, love, poetry, Words
What a beautiful poem- you have SUCH skill with words! Lovely!
Thank you Amy :) It’s funny, I kind of forget about writing poems for a while, but then I always find them to be the perfect expression of the most important things.
Oooh. Goosebumps! That poem is powerful! Beautiful Dani x
Thank you so much Zanni x
Beautiful as always Dani. Your writing style is so elegant and fluid, even when you are talking about housekeeping. I always kind of envy people who have that style of voice because mine is more clipped and abrasive. Not that that is a bad thing, but it does leave me a bit in awe of people who can write in such an effortlessly poetic way x
Thanks so much Melissa. It’s been a while in between poems. Of course I and lots of people are equally jealous of your ease of wit, which I am so totally lacking haha x
What a beautiful poem. And how exciting about the Dear Colina blog! I hadn’t visited before but it’s fabulous. Where are the letters from? Are they your family’s?
Thanks Bec :) I have to get back to the Dear Colina blog. It was a lot of work transcribing them and there are just a few to go. Colina was my great grandmother, and the letters are mostly from my great grandfather and his brothers.
Beautiful. And yes, a pregnant body is totally a love song!!
Oh, it totally is, isn’t it!
Beautiful. I absolutely love poetry and you have quite a talent for it. My husband used to write me poems, but hasn’t for a while. I must remind him :) #teamIBOT
You absolutely must remind him Renee :)
Oh, Dani. I just love how your words eloquently flow in that poem. Housekeeping is always a good idea and you always feel so much more productive and focused after it. So I better get cracking on my own blog!
Thanks Grace. I must get onto that house keeping x
What a beautiful tribute to adult love xxx good luck with your new directions – can’t wait to see where you take it.
Thank you Robyna xx
Yep I’m with in regards to a blog tidy up – a bit of pruning is needed.
So the choice of rose as feature picture is really quite apt, isn’t it :)
Thank you my love. For being you and loving me, and for our journey.