Love Child

In her I saw myself one day a cold spirit needing tending And in her face I saw the way to happiness she was rending

 

I crossed over a young girl's path

who had stooped and bent for hours

There she escaped to love from wrath

while she tended to her flowers

 

In her I saw myself one day

a cold spirit needing tending

While in her face I saw the way

to happiness she was rending

 

Simple things of a little girl

who swayed in the breeze that came through

Tousled curls all wrapped in a swirl

crowned top a smile that the wind blew

 

So take the gifts that you have earned

then turn out surcease from despair

To reap the pearls others have learned

echoing childhood calls "be fair"

With pride deposed and passions slain

we hope, aspire and then on trust

Beneath vaulted skies we attain

to master life before we're dust

 

Author's Note

Simple pleasures are their own reward. People we don't need 15 pairs of acid or stone washed jeans. That come in 28 different sizes and cuts. Happiness comes from needing little and giving much. If you learn to be content everything else is an unexpected joy.

Reviews

[little lily Bride of Ch..]

i am speachless yet it makes me sad with the children of today i reach out in prayer if i can't go that far to little spirits like that this was just so lovely it touched and Broke my heart so beautiful Life is too short to wast i will agree on that looking with a pure child like heart also helps us see the things we are blind to thats how i see life even though some of the world is currupt we can't allow the curruptness to stop us from enjoying the small littel beautiful things of life like our life early morning sun sets Beuatiful funny shapes in the clouds god gives us so amazing make our hearts smile and that little happiness and laughter is good for us make the day well worth living every day. Thank you for sharing my friend you always have such beautiful and wise words May God bless you and your family always i hope you're well and your family as well take care lily :)


By the way this is going into my favorites

[A Soap Mess Stories]

So passionate and rewarding....

[CecilA]

Well Tate, this is eloquent and inspiring. Your writing is so appealing; I want to jump in and let it push all my emotional buttons. So I do and it's worth every glad and sad feeling I experience.

I love the picture; it captures your narrative. You're an inpiration and a great writer.

I appreciate that you shared this with me. The last stanza sums it up for me.

[KAOlmsted]

In response to your author's note: They really are. Thank you for sharing this with us.

p.s. could you please stop RRing me things by DLP? He blocked me, remember ;-) Thank you.

[lee von cleef]

tick tack toe, then a cat, gone is the berka.

[Forgotten]

A poem filled with truth and an inspiration. Within life quite often the most beautiful things we treasure are the most simplest. I have a small acorn which I got from my first love which we had found in the forest of dean. I still keep it close to me even though it is simple thing it is a treasure I will always cherish. A great write Tate as always

[Onyia-Ali, Kingsley Chu..]

I appreciate how you figure out the alternate rhyme. I holds the poem together with sounds.

[Margarette]

You have created another wonderful and thoughtful poem regarding the situations of today. I'm glad to have you as my friends. Thanks for sharing!

[Tate Morgan]

thank you very much

[Valentine]

Sweet write and oh so true..We all need to be thankful each day for the small things in our lives..not just the big things..money does not last but love and a child can if we build on it..Katihe

[Tate Morgan]

agreed

[Mockingbird]

you must had an epiphany that day. we take for granted that we can learn from their innocence and un-bias.

[Tate Morgan]

i have been accused of having a few of those here and there thanks

[Natasha]

sometimes our young youth can teach us so much about life, with just a look--i have learned a lot in the times i have been spending the last three years with my boyfriends nephews and nieces, it really shows you what matters and is important in life, what we as adults should roll off our shoulders, and what we should keep closer to our hearts at the end of the day.

[Tate Morgan]

innocence has a appeal to all of us