Day 14 - Mother Earth

14th Oct 2019



I must say the challenge is getting harder.
Day 14
I took the prompt - Mother Earth and turned it to suit me:

Mother of Heaven and Earth

How can it be that you are my mother

Most blessed of all creatures 

Most pure

How can it be that you care for me

You, with all the children of the world

Under your soft protection

How can it be that every little detail

Of my life is of interest to you, 

Dear mother

You, who lived an ordinary life 

But it is,,

So I come  to you, sit with you

Bring my little worries 

And the bigger ones too

And you, you take them up to the sun

Your own dear son 

Yes,  because you are the mother 

Of the creator of the entire universe

You are indeed,

Mother of Heaven and Earth

The Vauxhall Victor

Squashed together in the back of the
Vauxhall Victor Estate - green -
Three sisters cocooned in sleeping bags.

Surrounded by pillows and other
Camping paraphernalia,
They fidget and bicker,
Moan and cry.
They are:
Too hot, too close, too hungry
Too uncomfortable.

Parents try to distract,

Send back sweets
Even though
The sun has yet to come up.

Five thirty at Dover docks
Morning light  from the East,
Glitters on sea,
Reveals White cliffs.

As they drive onto the ferry.
Their nostrils delight
In the salty, fishy hope
Of holiday.

This is the first
Of many excursions
They will make to the continent.

Out Of The Darkness

Day 5: 5th day, 5th poem.
Easter Day


 

Out of the Darkness

We get up early, before the sun,
Bold, loving - striking out to where
We'd watched Joseph and Nicodemus.
Gather spices, fresh clothes,
Ointments to anoint His body
We walk together.
 Tears - a balm for the union of our sorrow.
Wailing we comfort each other with stories,
Personal, painful.
We ponder - who will roll the stone away?
And then,
The sun rises
Reaching the place, we stop.
Looking , without understanding ,
who has done this thing?
The tomb - empty.
Confused we stand.
Do not fear , they say.
Out of darkness - the Light ...He is Risen...
And joy ,  hope returns.
He is alive...
He is alive...
He is alive...