Day 17 - Family

17th Oct 2019


Family



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Day 17 of this increasingly difficult challenge.  OctPoWriMo 2019.

I have , in the main,  been sticking to the prompts to see where they lead me. The prompt for today sent me into quite a kaleidoscope of thought as I pondered the whole idea of family and what it means to me.
I eventually came to the conclusion that it means everything to me. In no way have I done justice to this idea in the poem I've written . How could I?

The photo is of my husband and I and our nine children at my daughter's wedding, one of the only times we get everybody together these days.  However, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to family. This is only 11 of the 47 who make up this small part of the family. And if from there we spread the net... well...

Family

On the table, spread out before me

Taking up most of the space

Two large pieces of paper

On one the family tree on my mother's side

On the other , my father's

Both tracing the branches back,

with their different characters, to my 

Great, great grandparents

Hinting of Roots that go deep

Both papers from my parents down

Identical

.There in the middle, I am

Above me,certainty of the past 

Below, promise of  future surprises

Great, great grandchildren - mine

there at the bottom.

All of us, on both sheets

Children of God

We belong to the 

Family of God

The human family.