Her mouth is full of yes and yes
Her day, a dreamer’s vast canvas
Her eye, not predisposed to doom
Her mind, a grand enchanted room
Failure has not snuffed fantasy
nor dulled the gleam; Melancholy
has never pressed her spirit down
She is a butter-fly, wind-blown
…and shadows melt beneath her dance
Life is a ball-room, breath a chance
and hope, a diamond in her smile
How sweet it is to be a child
Oft midst life’s turbulent melee`
their laughter sets our spirits free
wakening the courage in our core
to free our inner child once more
Janet~
I was inspired by watching my daughter as she waited for the bus.
http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2012/02/think-tank-thursday.html
I was inspired by watching my daughter as she waited for the bus.
http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2012/02/think-tank-thursday.html
If one is no longer a child, one should be surrounded by a child or at least free one's inner child to know uninhibited JOY! I enjoyed this poem, Janet.
ReplyDeleteMary, I agree! AS tiring as it can be it repays ten-fold with 'uninhibited JOY!'
ReplyDeleteLovely - and yes! to children and childhood... yes! to adults coming (again) to such uninhibited joy of life...
ReplyDelete:) Yes~
ReplyDeleteI like your rhyming and alliterative choices. "Failure has not snuffed fantasy" is my favourite.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
ReplyDeleteI look at my children and feel energized by their zest for life. We should always keep this childlike perspective...enjoyed this ~
ReplyDeleteKat, thank-you so much~
ReplyDeletebooguloo, I thank-you;)
Heaven, it is so true! They keep us young at heart...if we allow them to.
That childlike perspective is so freeing, and yet so difficult some times!
This was beautiful Janet!
ReplyDeleteI loved all of it, but these lines spoke to me most:
"…and shadows melt beneath her dance
Life is a ball-room, breath a chance
and hope, a diamond in her smile
How sweet it is to be a child"
Loved it!
This is just wonderful, the joy of childhood so beautifully expressed, yes.
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