Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World

September 29, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is pregnancy and childbirth.

Today’s poem welcomes a child into the world.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Welcome to this wide-eyed world,

This loving, gentle wonderland,

Where fluffy lambs lie near at hand,

Their ears in tiny fingers curled;

Where one comes well equipped with toes

And fingers one can use to clutch

And rub and scratch and feel and touch

One’s soft cheek, one’s crusty nose.

What magic in the moment!

What delight in joy!

Life dances through the morning

Of a little boy.

What ebb and flow of feeling

Beneath an inner moon!

A symphony of senses,

A rich, rhapsodic tune!

Welcome to this wide-eyed world,

Where everything is dark and light,

Where faces smile day and night

And beam as one’s own smile unfurls;

Where love begins its ancient song

As one is kissed, caressed, and held,

Each pain allayed, each hunger quelled,

The love bonds woven thick and strong,

The love bonds thick and strong.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/welco4.html. For more poems about pregnancy and childbirth, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth.

September 26: A Universe, a Little Boy

September 27: Hallelujah! I’m Pregnant! Praise the Lord

September 28: I Have Some Information for Your Files

September 29: Welcome to This Wide-Eyed World