Nursery Mirror
by admin on March 21st, 2011
filed under Mirrors
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US $9.99
Do all families have a family well? Please read my tribute.?
“The Family Well”
Look down into the well.
Below, an ancient mirror.
Time is stilled and shushed.
Familiar faces float and nod.
“Hush little baby don’t you cry.”
Echoes of gentle motherhood.
The depth cannot be fathomed,
But the chant is soothingly deep.
Reflection, recognition of the past.
Here, reach for a Grandmother’s face.
Answer with a Greatgran’s cadence.
Deliver another wish into the well.
The water ripples, shimmers, spirals,
The guardians of our childhood whisper.
Old soft fleshed hands stroke.
Perfumed nursery voices murmur.
“Mummy and Nanny thank the Lord.”
All are there in the pure water,
Total parts of the reflection.
Your face, her face, our good night.
The circle of illumination.
No beginning, no end.
A timeless familiar face,
A promise to remember.
Your poem reads like a lullaby, leaving me feeling warm and comforted, as if wrapped in a parent's loving arms.
And, off on a tangent ...
I find it fascinating how a single word or topic can be characterized in so many different ways. Recently I, too, wrote a poem about a well but haven't posted it yet. It was more in the nature of, "Be careful what you wish for."
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