inside me lives a restless child
taller than her mother, daydreams bright afternoons of hide and seek
as she pares fruits and salts the soup-
she runs carefree as daffodils
a restless child inside me, she
curls like a spring bud reading books,
writing notes of rebellion and
thinks about flying into space
as she cleans the dirty dishes -
inside me lives this child, woman
of wrinkles and blue tattooed lines -
she has traveled many roads, now
smaller than her children, she (still) dreams
of painting sunsets, catching storms-
restless- this woman is (still) a child -
Posted for: D'verse Poets Pub - Poetics of growing up ~ Thanks to Stu Mcpherson ~
Poetry form: Quartern - written in 4 quatrains with a refrain in each successive stanza.
Inspiration: Brazilian poet , Ana Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto, Cora Coralina: All lives -
