Tractor Red 15: Grow

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Grow
Story: In The Heart
Colors: Tractor red 15 (let the crops and children grow) with Nikki's paint-by-numbers (Moments between Gail and her children as they grow up.).
Supplies and Materials: Pastels (growing up), frame (Summer's grown up).
Word Count: 106
Rating: G.
Summary: Gail on her children.
Warnings: none.
Notes: I wanted to write a sonnet.


Some things don't change, eternal as the night
Velvety black, and sprinkled o'er with stars
Some things don't stay, as morning's shifting light
Plays o'er the city, striking sparks off cars.
So the children, rising suns, do grow
From babyhood, sweet-smelling, chubby, warm
To childhood, skinned knees, lessons to know
To teenagers, confused as they transform.
And then adults, my children, every one--
My daughter, loved and loving, fierce and strong;
My sweet, calm son, my son though not my son;
My youngest, brave and true, where she belongs.
Some things will change: children will always grow.
Some things won't change: my love will never go.

Comments

[malapropism]

I don't understand how sonnets work, but I can certainly appreciate them, and this was really nice, very sweet and well-composed and full of love. Wonderful work.

[bookblather]

Thank you so much! I like sonnets because they... work for me, idk. Anyway. Thank you. <3

[sarcasticsra]

Oh, this is so lovely, and so perfect. I seriously envy your gift with poetry; it's incredible.

Great job!

[bookblather]

There's a kind of rhythm I get into; the rest of the sonnet usually flows pretty well from that. Thank you very much!

[isana]

Oh, man. Oh, Gail. I can see her writing this for her kids one day. Lovely job.

[bookblather]

Yeah. She just loves them so much, all of them. I'm a bit sad I couldn't fit Jake in here, because as far as she's concerned, he counts.

Thank you!

[five_steps_back]

This is gorgeous. Oh Gail. <3 Best mom ever.

[bookblather]

She really is. Thank you!

[subluxate]

This is so sweet and lovely. Good job.

[bookblather]

Thank you!