For CarolynMarie
Lovely
Babe
In the morning of life
First breath blushing
Hushed to sleep on mother’s breast
Wrapped in safety, warmed by love, content
Unknowing, ember glowing in the world
Bright and beautiful, the flame is lit
Eternal, pure, nothing will extinguish it
Life creates
Forever
Girl
Curious, wide-eyed, world beckoning
Furtive steps lead to confidence, growing
Music and laughter, books and water, branches climbing
Rhyming words and capricious dreams, running free
Windy days and sunny skies, thunder of life, electric blue
Flowering blossom of possibility, hope unlimited
True
Woman
Wine and song, eyes of wonder, wistful, searching, striving
Mysterious and magnetic, dancing heartbeats and silence
Significant the senses, brilliant jewel, humility befriending pride
Struggle, triumph to survive, long the ordinary days, timelessness
Power and presence, grand pursuits, small victories, work and truth
Life
Wife
Connected, babe, girl, woman to the babe, boy, man, rings of fire fanned
Circles of life, round and round, emotions soften and harden and mold
Two into one, the sun and the moon, rooted in love and in need, in perpetuity
Romance, two souls dancing on shifting sands, adapting, changing, hand in hand
Elevated, stars collide, morning and night, love shines, reflected in the eyes of the other
Gratitude and grace, time and experience cannot erase a moment or a memory or a vow
Love is a promise, a choice, a soothing voice, a soft embrace, the smiles and wrinkles and tears on a face
Love inhabits the soul, travels with it wherever it roams; love surpasses all time and space, to thrive
Alive and limitless, endless, enduring, faithful, forgiving, glorious, gracious, grounded and spacious
The place love willingly rests is the sweet home of the heart and the familiar depths of shared souls
Made whole, made one, destiny will not be undone; fate shines upon one another, lovers forevermore
Gazing together toward a golden horizon yet to be seen, lovers anchored and adrift in the same dream
Eyes fixed on the shadowy expanse of distant seas and shores, emotions betwixt and between, yet
Faith endures, the dance of lovers, their music, their song, bewitched by the other, their dance lives on
Moving with Nature, wailing against the wind, watching the tide rush in, waiting for it whisper out again
Wishful
Mother
Biggest heart ever known before or since, wince at the thought, so precious and painfully sweet
A woman, a wife, a life complete the moment a child fills the world and its empty spaces with pure joy
Boy, then girl, an endless merry-go-round of memories, smiles captured in sepia tones, at home, at last
Vast the reaches of a mother’s boldest dreams, babes in arms, swaddled, prized and precious charms
No harm shall come to those a mother loves and fiercely protects with iron will and velvet gloves, love
Of a mother for her child is mighty noble, pride above the clouds, deep as the emerald ocean and warm,
Gentle, like a tropical sea wind, like the calm after a storm, childbirth and all its painful hours, gently
Washed away like rain on a summer day, a cool breeze to ease her memory as showers bless her soul,
Her children, like flowers growing, beautiful, are rooted by her love, blossoms thriving, fragrant and free
Naturally instinctive is a great mother’s love as she touches her child, her treasure, ever so lightly, and
In the face of innocence and wonder where all her dreams began, she sees sparkling eyes and blue skies
To find in herself new strength, her feet planted on the ground, her head high above the clouds of love
And she carries with her, history, as she sets her children’s gaze firmly upon a future unknown, courage
She shows them, she leads the way; she saves the day time and again, living, giving, and teaching them
How to live, but most especially how to love, and no matter what the day may bring, she smiles through
And if she has a moment when she feels blue or lost and lonely, her children suddenly save the day with
A grin, a tear, a hug or a kiss, bliss it is when a mother is loved as deeply as this, so sweetly, completely
Babe, girl, woman, wife, mother and friend, sweet Carolyn, the love you give and receive will never end
Anchored safely you are in the arms of love, adrift in infinite oceans and hearts, and in the skies above,
You have Angels with you and around you, watching over and within you, reminding you, you are loved
And no matter how shadowy may be the night, remember sweetheart, your soul is a magnificent light
Refined by love and hope, spirit and courage, pure and true, the light I imagine is the one and only you
Your light is a shining star in the night sky guiding you home, and wherever love lives you will not be alone
With endless affection -hugs - -xo-
Cath1