Here Are All Your Children in One Place

May 7, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem accompanying the gift of a photograph of all of a mother’s adult children:

Here are all your children in one place,

Enshrined behind some glass within a frame.

A picture's like a word, a sign, a name,

Symbolic of a much more complex grace.

Years of memories lie behind each face,

A wild sea no blessing can contain;

Years and years of love, of joy, of pain,

Of mysteries no heart can hope to trace.

Here are all the objects of your love,

A frozen section cut away from Time,

A summit between dreams and memories,

Which you need only look this way to climb;

An icon for domestic reveries

Through which a thousand answered prayers move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/6: There’s No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel

5/7: Here Are All Your Children in One Place