eucalypt leaves meal
sad eyes of protectiveness~
loving arms swaddle
12/10/2023
Year of twenty fourteen changed me
a baby with a baby
Although your cherished endlessly
Motherhood is scary
This little person
New to life
My emotions overbearing
Nurtured with a newfound
Love, protectiveness and caring
Nothing means more to me
You really cant compare it .
A woman who im proud to be
When i become your parent
Echoes from distant childhood memories
Carefully made from my young protectiveness.
Warning of those dangerous nights
down in my land of the halflights.
Carried throughout my years
now with faded reasons why.
Silence follows as I enter my middle season
No longer fearful of the nights that made who you see.
Versions I once had to silence forgotten fears
new values to learn, as I focus on who is me.
Finding the way to fully embrace
"THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE"
Defining the Indefinables
Garnered in my thoughts is an unknown mentor, The Lyric
The first to welcome and walk me into the world of soupers
He himself is there and yet not there for his presence is felt by few
The thought of him brings three dancing penguins into my mind
The Silent One kept me alerted and enthused with brevity
His silence reflects his fortitude in raising his children single handedly
His poems echo his loyalty to a bygone era of world that could have been
Sandra Haight and Richard Lamoureux take me into an unbounded utopia
Their warm encouragement even for a simple effort seems rewarding
A mere look at their soft looks arouses an undulating feeling of protectiveness
November 5, 2016
For Andrea Dietrich
Community Builders Free for All Tribute
With Your Arms Around Me
With Your Arms Around Me
I can get through any day.
When I can hear your heart beat
I’m then compelled to pray.
O Lord, how I need you
To keep Your Arms Around Me
Don’t release me for a moment
Lest my fallibility I fail to see.
The oppressor is angry
Because I desire to work for you
In a unique and treasured manner
Obedience solely in view.
I ask your forgiveness for seeking elsewhere;
Desiring the things of this world,
That I have no need of here.
With Your Arms Around Me
I’ll have the peace of mind to tell
Of such wonderful love I’ve known
Such love that does compel.
You constantly give me
Everything I need.
You’re not asking me to help you
For some personal, useless greed.
With Your Arms Around Me
I can get through any trial or woe
As long as I surrender all
Your arms around me go.
I feel your sense of protectiveness
Your deep compassion and love.
Please keep Your Arms Around Me
Until I’m found in heaven above.
Copyright © 2012 Maureen LeFanue
www.maureenlefanue.com
And so I lived from hand to mouth
watching, and wondering
if I'd see you again
while you ~ climbed higher and higher!
Your tredmarks ~ seeming the same
relationships, younger all the time
and strategy, becoming harder
and more obscure!
While I began to condense
and grow
and realize ~ my life
must go ahead!
I must not fawn protectiveness
not even for my own
and enemies ~ the more
were on their own incline!
And then it could occur
my worth ~ my rhyme
and even my demur
at last it was my time!
A citizen, senior in confer
a status, not obscure
and all those benefits
the aged must incur!
A basis ~ for new life
the stir ~ less gratifying strife
and separations lure ~ now empty
pools of rife!
Except in dreams ~ and tears
I see the promised cure,
it seemed that then so easy
the road should follow ~ sure!
Our hopes consideration
most certainly should be pure
and jags and jolts, abrasions
lessons ~ still . . . . insecure!
Never before has she ever felt like this,
As God’s gift lies before her… in all her regal bliss.
She knows she can’t ask for more, than to touch her little princess.
Nothing on earth can feel so right, as she yields a gentle kiss.
Overwhelming protectiveness takes over her being,
As she picks up the one who is smiling and gently breathing.
It’s amazing how much love and devotion comes with this blessing,
And how much life can vastly change with its bringing.
She’ll hold her child closely and gently as she sings a lullaby.
Rocking her love… she watches as she slowly closes her eyes.
Her own happiness is wrapped up in her little one… who before her lies.
Her little pink bundle of joy… she is truly life’s greatest prize.
New to her heart and touching her soul…
Before her lies a precious dream.
Completely wrapped up and dedicated to this life...
Her heart explodes with love and beams.
Never before has she ever felt like this,
As God’s gift lies before her… in all her regal bliss.
She knows she can’t ask for more, than to touch her little princess.
Nothing on earth can feel so right, as she yields a gentle kiss.
Overwhelming protectiveness takes over her being,
As she picks up the one who is smiling and gently breathing.
It’s amazing how much love and devotion comes with this blessing,
And how much life can vastly change with its bringing.
She’ll hold her child closely and gently as she sings a lullaby.
Rocking her love… she watches as she slowly closes her eyes.
Her happiness is wrapped up in the little one… who before her lies.
Her little pink bundle of joy… she is truly life’s greatest prize.
Congratulation.
Through lush green hills of sweet dew grass,
under skies of blue and soft cotton puff clouds,
she roams wild and free.
True to her blood line, ancestry and futre,
she relishes in what she's surrounded by,
all things great and small.
In the meadow valley, her spirit is shared,
with a part of her and her mate,
a little replica of her younger years.
Full of pride, love excitment, joy,
protectiveness, posessiveness, fullness,
her mixed emotions show in every muscle.
Through sunlight forests of darkness,
lush vegetation and isolated meadows,
together they play, run, graze and relax as one.
Spirits combined, yet seperate,
nuzzles, nudges, and head-on-back hugs,
compassion between two of one.
They share ancestry, blood, family,
land of no limits, endless vegetation,
mind, body and spirit. It's a bond between mother and baby,
something that can't be touched
but can be broken and fixed,
And is unique in every relationship.
WILLINGNESS TO IGNORE SOCIAL BARRIERS TO EASE THE LONLINESS
RESTLESS HOURS WITH ANXIOUS ENERGY SINGING THE VEINS
INCONSPICIOUS AS POSSIBLE BREATHING AS GUILTY AS ONE COULD
A RUSH OF HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER
METHODICAL DELIBERATE
INSIDES CHURNING WITH A PROTECTIVENESS
FEIRCLY DEFENSIVE
LOOSING A GRIP ON REALITY
AS TIMES GROW MORE DESPERATE PEOPLE CHANGE
LONLINESS BROKEN BY THE OCCASIONAL MOMENT OF PEACE
THE RESULTANT QUESTION
SCREAMING FOR ANSWERS
THOUGHT-NUMBING RELIEF
INABLILITY TO DO ANYTHING
RUNNING ON EMPTY NEEDING TO BE REFILLED SUPER
EMOTIONALLY DEBILITATING
HOPE DWINDLING NO NORMALICY
UNEXPECTED VULNERABILITY STUBBORN STRENGTH
NO ESCAPE BUT TO SAY SAY GOOD BYE I'M SINGLE AGAIN!!!!!
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