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Ontario’s Child
21 August 2006

A night to remember
a moment to think
Her name, her breath
mother’s milk to drink

The beauty of a child
the mother in mercy borne
An understanding, a love
those moments of hate torn

Did she know happiness
or was that her own quest to find
A child of Ontario, her birth of specialness
as into those eyes, this life does rest
Tranquillity, her heart, her soul, her breast

For what was a poet, and did love exist
across an empire, a commonwealth struck
A knight and his maiden, his love to give
and there she was in her specialness
Her beauty and sunshine,
the reality of tomorrow


“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore
no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for
the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
Matthew 6: 33-34 KJV


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares