Love and MY Husband (repost at my wife's request - she reads but doesn't write)

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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2001-12-04 11:02 PM

Love, And My Husband

I whisper to my children sleeping dreamily
as they play with angels,
telling them how I love them
and that without them
I wouldn't want to go on.
I sing soft lullabies
sweet songs that God has given me,
and touch their precious faces,
pushing back a lock of hair.
I kneel between their beds
and pray in silent, wondrous joy;
I kiss each cheek,
push back that stubborn lock of hair,
and with throbbing heart go to bed;
Love and my husband are waiting there.

w. james beard, jr.
© November 2000

By the way...that's my (first grandchild) new granddaughter in the picture born yesterday -12/03/01 on my birthday. (Just had to slip that in)

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

1 posted 2001-12-04 11:18 PM

Wow, Happy Birthday to you, and

HAPPY BIRTH DAY BABY!!

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

2 posted 2001-12-04 11:24 PM

jwesley,
Hey old man we're a day apart! Happy Birthday! Love the baby shot. Just absolutely love this poem. Children and grandchildren...what a gift.

Sin isn't fair, but God got even, grace isn't fair either. larry c

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

3 posted 2001-12-04 11:29 PM

Thank you Midnightsun...got to be there for the whole thing...

Larry - well, I'm the youngest - don't care what side of the 3rd you're on...hee, hee.

jimmy

CocoBaci
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since 2000-05-06

Posts 3043

4 posted 2001-12-04 11:37 PM

JW, this just warmed my heart2read such a tender poem and I'm sooooo happy your wife got ya2repost it cuz gosh it's truly precious...
Thanx4this treat2read2nite and btw congratz2u on the grandchild and happpppy birthdayyyy PoetFriend

*~coco~*

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2001-12-04 11:53 PM

awww, Jimmy..how precious...the poem, the baby..life! Welcome to the grandparent club that I joined on Nov 13...and Happy birthday to you both!

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2001-12-05 12:47 PM

Wow I enjoyed reading this...james

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

7 posted 2001-12-05 01:35 AM

Hey j....happy to meet your wife...loved the pics too...very, very sweet sentiments. You two are very fortunate! happy hugs to family!

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

8 posted 2001-12-05 01:45 AM

Martie,
Thanks.

Bec
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since 2001-02-23

Posts 475
Canberra

9 posted 2001-12-05 06:32 AM

jwesley... This is beautiful. My sister is due in a few weeks, and my parents are about to join the grandparent brigade! Congratulations, and many, many happy years with your grandchild.

Bec

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
-Winnie-the-Pooh

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

10 posted 2001-12-05 07:31 AM

I loved this poem AND the picture, this is what love is all about.

Kathleen (Kay)
"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

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The Shores of Alone

11 posted 2001-12-05 08:04 AM

Oh,how lovely. Happy Brthday to you both.
Sandra

RosePetal

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since 2001-08-26

Posts 2985
South Florida

12 posted 2001-12-05 10:58 AM

Awwww what a breath-taking baby girl!
What is her name? Happy belated birthday to you! Beautifully written poem!

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

13 posted 2001-12-05 01:46 PM

COCOBACI - Glad it warmed your heart my friend-my wife's too. Yeah, we're kinda tickled about the baby - Her name is RYLEIGH BROOKE VANCE by the way.

Martie - Well HAPPY GRANDMA to my friend -
I guess most eventually get there sometime or other - Ryliegh had some kind of infection when born so they're keeping her a few days...ATT they don't seem real concerned though.

James - thanks much ...

Serenity - We've been hugging/being hugged by everybody since Ryliegh came on the scene...

Bec - Thanks - maybe your sister will make christmas babies, huh?? Grandparent brigade -
now there's an awsome term --- right Martie??

Kathleen - thanks for the feeling my friend - and you're right - this and more.

Sandra -- Never thought about having to share my birthday with anyone...kinda neat though - will have to make sure and be there every year...make a special twosome for us.

RosePetal---I guess!! I mean new babies are sorta...you know...red and wrinkled and, and...yep, breath-taking! Thanks me friend on all counts... Ryleigh Brooke is her handle.

Ryleigh was 6lbs 12oz, 19in - but just a dip in the bucket - heck I was 10 lbs pluse...and on a cute not - my son, her uncle, sent an email to his friends about the baby and said she was 9 lbs, 6-1/2 inches! Think he was excited???

love ya'll

jimmy

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