1 Poem Finished for First Poet's Challenge-- 6 to Go
Ok. This week I started something titled Poet's Challenge. Each night I've been briefly staring at the words posted for the exercise. This morning I stared once again, and an idea 'came to me' for the latest words posted. Here's the poem:
Mother Of One
Pearl,
you won't be handed a ticket
to heaven. God
doesn't easily dress
everyone in heavenly linens.
You have to work
to wear God's wardrobe.
Do you even know
what it means to work?
I should have raised
you differently,
wanted your life free
from the worries I carried.
No worries of affording clothes,
would the power be on or off,
not questioning if dinner
will be on the table,
fresh fruit in your lunch--
your favorite, a mango,
tucked away with love.
I was shelter from life's storms.
Would you be stronger, wiser, better off,
if I had let you brave those storms,
let you learn to rebuild?
Words: ticket, mango, linen, and pearl. Those words were selected by loreeley.
Mother Of One
Pearl,
you won't be handed a ticket
to heaven. God
doesn't easily dress
everyone in heavenly linens.
You have to work
to wear God's wardrobe.
Do you even know
what it means to work?
I should have raised
you differently,
wanted your life free
from the worries I carried.
No worries of affording clothes,
would the power be on or off,
not questioning if dinner
will be on the table,
fresh fruit in your lunch--
your favorite, a mango,
tucked away with love.
I was shelter from life's storms.
Would you be stronger, wiser, better off,
if I had let you brave those storms,
let you learn to rebuild?
Words: ticket, mango, linen, and pearl. Those words were selected by loreeley.