mother's worry lines
woman's dry skin
I feel girl's thumping heart
A work in progress,
still learning power of words
and fruits of imagination
My canvas:
deep roots beside moving tides
above white-cotton clouds
& tropical sun
licking the lake water
with gusto
Me at the Scarborough Bluffs Marina over the long weekend
(My hubby thinks I'm a mermaid with legs)
Posted for D'verse Poets Pub - Quadrille - 44 word post, Hosted by Lillian. We are asked to write a self-portrait.
Thanks for the visit!
A mermaid with legs indeed! :) Love the parts about mother's worry lines, dry skin and a girl's heart! :) Especially love the last stanza. Wonderful strokes of the pen, my friend! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Lillian!
DeleteLove the picture Grace. It looks like you, De, and I have a mermaid club going. This is so poetic and lovely. I got so by-the-book on mine. Hey, retired engineer and chef - got to be point-by-point.
ReplyDeleteLet's have a mermaid club, smiles. Thanks Toni!
DeleteRooted but still in the flow of things. I love your last stanza - beautiful poetic imagery and pleasant sounds. I could hear those tides moving besides the deep roots.
ReplyDeletelicking the lake water with gusto - I like that part! :)
ReplyDeleteWe carry all of life's phases still within us. Woman, mother, girl. And a mermaid!
ReplyDeleteI like the snippet of you as a child still learning the ways of words...sweet. The contrast of the roots and the moving water gives the sense of continuing growth yet stability. I love that your hubby looks at you as a mermaid with legs! :)
ReplyDeleteMermaids can have Silkie tendencies--you, or course just embrace the royal aspects; smile; you are Woman, & we dig listening to you roar.
ReplyDeleteLovely... A mermaid with legs. He's a lucky guy.
ReplyDeleteExudes a feminine quality that is so real. Beautiful!
ReplyDelete"I feel girl's thumping heart" ... I can totally sense this about you.
ReplyDeleteThis is my favorite:
"above white-cotton clouds
& tropical sun
licking the lake water
with gusto"
Loved the second and third stanza.
ReplyDeleteThe inner inspiration in this is exquisite, Grace. You write yourself well!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful, Grace!
ReplyDeleteI love that thumping girl heart underneath it all and how you've structured this, that canvas.
ReplyDeleteMany layers as you flow away by the bay
ReplyDeleteLovely photo. You look happy there by the water.:) I think we all still feel young at heart, no matter our age.
ReplyDeleteLovely photo. You look happy there by the water.:) I think we all still feel young at heart, no matter our age.
ReplyDeleteaha...thumping and gusto; love them. lovely photo Grace, like your name :)
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely portrait of the nature in you, the woman, the child..always growing. And there you are...your hubby is lucky to have such a mermaid.
ReplyDeleteI love the opening lines, which I can identify with so well, Grace, and that phrase 'licking the lake water with gusto'!
ReplyDeleteA lovely self-portrait and photo. I can identify with you regarding "the girl's thumping heart" I enjoy your writing very much,,
ReplyDeleteDeep roots beside moving tides: love that mix of static and dynamic!
ReplyDeleteyour husbands description of you made me smile.
ReplyDeleteand i think the deep roots by moving tides makes for a great description - also I like the allusion to your family and their part in who you are.
I love the inclusion of the background / canvas!
ReplyDeleteAge is but a number. We never stop growing and knowing ourselves. :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy day to you.
~Imelda
sMiLes mY FriEnd.. Grace..
ReplyDeleteas sure i've mentioned
bEfore what i've lEarned
at 56.. as my Great Aunt
Jettie taught ME dead
at 47 in life..
is we are only
as young as we feel..
could be 80 at 21..
105 at 47.. or Jesus
F. in Christ.. 16 at 56
in even empirical evidence
of pressing half a ton with
legs 33 times like no other man
does with his arms raised to air
like a ballet dancer on an extremely
difficult parallel leg press machine..
even F in proving that on YouTube2..
bottom line is this..
science is based
on functionally
disabled cultural
averages...
human
is
based
on GOD..
i choose God
and live life
like no else
but
GOD..
FEARLESS
and ALIVE..
Have a nice
day WitH LOVE..
MY friEnd.. no
limits or
expectations
either.. just like
that verse from
Saint John that
says others will
come and do
much greater
works
than
the
science
of systemizing
human limitations
and expectations oF BEforE noW..:)
It's funny how, no matter how old we grow on the outside, we're still so young within. You captured that conflict so well!
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of layers here. The outside doesn't always show what's on the inside.
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