Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 May 2008

Meet Me In That Dream


I've finally (almost) finished the last quilt of the "Grow, Child" series. Waaaaaay back, last year, I had this idea about combining writing and embroidering and snuggling....all good things. My first poem was "Grow, child". (Somehow I've got to post the quilts in order here.) I've enjoyed it immensely, and can finally say that at least one quilt has been made for each of the stanzas of the poem.

Here's a sneak peak of the next series:

meet me in that dream
the one with the deer
and the friendly dark

we can count
the stars on our street
and the owls in the park

meet me in that dream
the one with the mouse
and the dancing moon

we can feel
the wings of the bats
as they weave on their bright loom


This one only has four stanzas :-)

Saturday, 12 May 2007

To Safiya From Mama


grow, child
eat sunshine
and apples

grow strong roots
walk the earth

taste butterfly sunlight
and ferns in the air

around the bend wishes
and soft breeze kisses

hide dirt happy toes
in frog dimple shadows

raspberry blissed fingertips
in bumblebee golden afternoons

belly laugh sky
leap so high

love life
live love