Gift Left Behind Dedicated to Klassy Lassy new grandson

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ethome
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since 2000-05-14

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New Brunswick Canada

0 posted 2010-12-25 04:47 PM

This is a repost. I enjoyed Klassy Lassy's poem about her new grandchild. My only child is now 36 and is pregnant and I am going to be a Grandad for the very first time so I'm really excited.
Life is so precious we should never take it for granted.

A Gift Left Behind

The breath of spring was wild and free
just after a winter's freeze
and the colorful birds of the eastern region
were singing with gracious ease.

The river was blue like the clearing sky
the waves in the breezes played.
The soil of the land was moist and prime
for seed in the month of May

High on a hill a man stared from a field
his drawn face character lined,
he watched the Terns as they rolled and reeled
on winds of familiar time.

He drew waves of thought from the past
into memories of a young man,
whose true love had come to him fast
like a child he'd asked for her hand.

Beneath the starlit skies at night
his arms held her beauty so fair
Her golden hair in the soft moonlight
left a vision beyond compare.

But now her pleading voice filled his ears
"move on," she cried, "move on."
Her final calling had come that year
and then she was ghastly gone.

He recalled....
When the wagons creaked and the wheels squeaked
and cedar rails marked the time
when family dreams were everything
and together was a frame of mind.
Now a Cadillac rests by the old woodshed
and the wagon rots in the barn
and the old homestead where the children lived
plays host to an old man's charms.

Then into his thoughts broke a sweet sound
to bring back the dead from the past
across the field there came running abound
a small curly haired lass.

"Grandpa, Grandpa," was her jubuilant shout,
"I've come to stay over the night!"
and into his arms she jumped just about
knocking him down with delight.

Her small face cradled next to his neck
he fought back the tears in his eyes.
Out of his vision came life out of death
in a gift that his love left behind.

This is my neice lost to brain cancer at 7 years of age, a blow beyond imagination.

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

1 posted 2010-12-25 05:02 PM

Congratulations on being a granddad, my friend. One look at that sweet little girls face and I am mute for more words, except to say God, if He is there works with strange and horrible methods. My next book after the one I am writing now will try to understand why this can happen.

. . . and the raven said, )!(%!~@~#&$ . . .

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

2 posted 2010-12-25 05:13 PM

Thanks Jerry
There's no words but I thank you for the kind thoughts.
Like I try to stress in the poem, the preciousness of life and how we should all treasure the time we have together.
Money and material things all fall short of the gift of life. Granchildren give you a mellowed out look at the never ending cycle of life and love.

Eric

ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call
and kinda driftin away from it all

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2010-12-25 07:20 PM

Eric you are in for joy you could only have imagined before. I am so happy this night to hear this news. There is nothing happier to experiene like the joy my own grandson's are having with their new little boys.And if your grandchild is a girl, you will love her all the more. Little girls love their fathers and grandfathers just as much.jo

Klassy Lassy
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since 2005-06-28

Posts 2187
Oregon

4 posted 2010-12-26 12:26 PM

Eric, Thank you so much for this dedication. Grandchildren are a very special part of life and I look back at my family and think how very blessed I have been. Little Nicholas is Great Grandbaby number 5! Last night, Christmas Eve, I watch my 18 yr-old-grandaughter cuddling him (they are cousins) as he slept against her shoulder. Tears came into my eyes. She might not have been here to do that having broken her neck in an accident on a four wheeler summer before last. She didn't know her C-7 vertebra had been broken until she broke it again when she was bucked off her horse last fall and had to be taken to Doernbecher's hospital in the city by ambulance. It healed very quickly and she does all the the things a normal 18 yr-old girl does, but she is a gift, and I realize each of them are!. Time is precious.

I am very sorry for the loss of a beloved child. This is beatifully written. I'm very touched, knowing what a special light your grandchildren will be in your life. ~Karen

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

5 posted 2010-12-26 01:23 AM

Thank you late I appreciate those kind words and I know it will be a joy.My daughter and I are very close and of course I'm also nervous that everything will go well.
So far all tests show everything is excellent and right on track.
Many thanks once again for the comment.

Eric

ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call
and kinda driftin away from it all

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

6 posted 2010-12-26 01:36 AM

Hi Karen
You certainly have been blessed. That's quite a story. Fortunately your 18 year old grandaughter was able to heal and keep on with life. Very dangerous, anything to do with the spinal cord.
It's great that you can sit back these days and love and care for them all.

I was very close to the little girl in the picture so I'm stressing that something always comes along to replace these voids in life. Nothing ever replaces a lost loved one completely but it's a kindness when a new love comes along to ease the loss

Like the old man in the poem, he still had that gift from the past and a new closeness to live for. It's just simply life, and there's some sad happenings along the way.

However, I have been told via an ultrasound that it's going to be a boy.

Hey! I'll take him fishing!!

Love to you and take care

Eric

ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call
and kinda driftin away from it all

Klassy Lassy
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since 2005-06-28

Posts 2187
Oregon

7 posted 2010-12-27 07:20 AM

Eric, I am so thankful for the miracles in life and there are several in mine. And the child in your arms in that picture is a miracle, too. I can see the gift in her beautiful little face.

Yes, you can take your new grandson fishing...heheheh. :bouncing: Thank you for sharing with me! ~K

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30

Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London

8 posted 2010-12-27 12:01 PM

heart-wrenching ...

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

9 posted 2010-12-28 12:10 PM

Karen

You are so welcome and thanks for the return to post that I certainly appreciate those thoughts.

Eric
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Thanks Rex
I appreciate the visit and the compassion.

Eric

ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call
and kinda driftin away from it all

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

10 posted 2010-12-28 12:14 PM

Once again, my big bear of a friend,
your heart is showing...

it's painful to write poems and stories
such as these, but if and when you can
help others get through difficult times,
then you know you've done the right thing.

Hug the babies tight...
so that they might always remember love.

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

11 posted 2010-12-28 01:03 PM

kewl stuff ET...congrats on the GP role

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