Behold the Mother with her Newborn Child

January 10, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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A poem celebrating the birth of a child:

Behold the mother with her newborn child!

An icon of a hope that never dies.

Death may label all we cherish lies,

Yet this love lies too deep to be defiled.

We clear an inner field where fate has smiled,

Letting play the pleasures of surmise,

Holding back all contrary replies,

As though our thoughts might turn the winters mild.

Despite the well-known travesties of time,

Each time a child is born we dream anew,

For only thus our losses are regained.

Though we must share the destiny of slime,

No passion in our palette is more true

Than that which cradles innocence unstained.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

1/9: Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

1/10: Behold the Mother with Her Newborn Child