What She Saw #NaPoWriMo Day 20 A Hero (Heroine) Poem

The prompt today at ReadWritePoem reminded me of my Mother and Miss Foley. Seeing it is my Mother’s birthday, I felt compelled to write a poem about her…and yes, the heroism from the mother-within-both of us. Let me know what you think.

Here is the prompt:

As a child, Jessica GC says she had two heroes: Wonder Woman and her mother. “To me, they were one and the same,” says Jessica. “Both had long dark hair. Both were strikingly beautiful, and both had incredible strength.”

Write a poem in which you to pay tribute to your hero, past or present.

 

What She Saw

 

I remember sitting on stairs

Alongside Mom as she

Watched, so still, so quiet, so reflective

 

No need to talk

No need to whine away her focus

So it would land on my face

 

Her hand moved, with care and skill

As she sketched, as she made the

Home across the street take perfect

Form, on the paper turning

From three dimensional color to one

Dimensional pencil on paper

 

In October she said, “I can’t believe

You remember that…”

The little girl, watching

 

Was unknowingly looking at her future

Her mother’s grandson, hand on

The little girl’s shoulder

Silently saying “I am here”

 

The little girl’s knowing watched

forty years forward and forty

years, back - -

 

Love was what she saw

 

  

Comments

[pamela]

Oh you are so lucky!
Pamela

[Sheila Finkelstein]

Beautiful, Julie!

[Eryl Shields]

Great stuff! I am reminded, by your penultimate verse especially, of the native Australian's 'Dream Time': forty thousand years, and all that. And I think this kind of mother daughter learning, teaching, growing, watching fits really well with that reference.

[Tilly Bud]

I love your last line.

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