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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2013-09-08 06:53 AM

I open the door
and call to them...
my thoughts, ideas,
questions, dreams,
and they come running,
these children
of my reality.
They are uniquely mine
and I revel in their growth
as they frolic
on the playground
of my mind.
I nurture them
and hold them dear
for I have given birth to them.

Ida Werrett

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2013-09-08 07:27 AM

Very interesting, Ida. And they are, aren't they, our children? Liked this one very much.

~*~ If they give you lined paper write sideways. ~*~

JLHunter
Senior Member

since 2006-10-08

Posts 557
CA United States

2 posted 2013-09-08 10:10 AM

Hi, Ida.

I see that you, too, wistfully reminisce about your 'babies,' as I call mine. But in truth, and poetry aside, as old as I am, I got a late start in life, so my babies are still just that! Now, if I can get them to grow to fruition!

In any case, enough rambling about me. Your write was evocative and full of longing. Beautiful!

JLHunter

PS: I also neglected to mention that I may never claim to have actually given birth to anything other than, maybe, an idea!

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. -Khalil Gibran

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2013-09-08 05:34 PM

As my Mom's baby, I realized that, in her eyes, I was always her little girl. Now that my Mom is gone, I hold tight to the fact that I will remain, forever, her little girl ~ her baby.

A

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

4 posted 2013-09-09 09:07 AM

that maternal feeling resides in many of us, mothers , fathers, those with or without
little ones,yet able to love

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2013-09-09 11:27 AM

Thank you all for reading and commenting. You got this one, Jerry. Thanks.
Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2013-09-09 02:07 PM

I think I've closed the door on my "children" perhaps preferring to remain distanced from everything that plays in my mind but I do watch them from the window to make sure they're safe. Nice one, Ida!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2013-09-10 03:29 AM

Thank you, Helen. Love your clever analogy.
Ida

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

8 posted 2013-09-21 06:28 PM

enjoyed...James

poetically ghetto
Member

since 2004-01-20

Posts 100

9 posted 2013-09-22 02:42 AM

such a powerful thought in a small package and what a natural flow

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

10 posted 2013-09-22 03:22 AM

I love, live, cry and celebrate this, Ida. A perfect dewdrop gem!

Owl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

11 posted 2013-09-25 06:51 AM

I love your creative take on this vision of your mind's playground, dear Ida.

Beautiful!

Margherita

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