Hour 4, "What Makes Us..."

2023 Poetry Marathon, Hour 4

Hour 4

9/2/2023

 

"What Makes Us?..."

 

"Momma!"

"Look!"

pretty, pretty... "pretty..."

And the lil fingers grasp and pull,

grasp and pull...

legs RUN to other visions

of pretty, pretty...

lil fingers, stained with green,

stained with smiles

stained with pretty, pretties...

lil hands complete,

lil mind FULL

run, run, RUN!

"Mommy!"

"MOMMY!  HERE!!"

Reach, open her fingers.  Place the 'treasure'!

Beam so hard, so clear.

Move away - MORE treasures to give ...share!...

Pause ...stare...

...mommy threw them in the trash...

...mommy threw them away...

...OH...oh...

 

So many, many "echoes"

behind our eyes...

 

Chris

(C) Chris Twyford 9/2/2023

Reviews

[Lorry]

It is so hard to relate to what makes us definitively us, but our childhood and the nurture within that time goes a long way to who we keep becoming.
Life is rarely static and neither is the mind, so looking back on these times becomes a sort of unending jigsaw, that usually leads to more How's and whys than answers.
The Echoes behind our eyes are the thoughts that reverberate within us, shocking us with the power of their beat.
Nicely captured memory of where the answers lie.

[Chris]

So many sums within our existence...