Darling Daughters
Clear, clean, ceaseless lights
In a world that has gone
So dark
Brilliant scattering of stars
Still you blaze
In strong, single constellation,
Though you are
Swept far and wide
Across a hungry
Star swallowing sky
And you are
The change
This dark world so needs
To see . . .
And you are
My reason for believing
In tomorrow
Darling Daughters . . .
The sweet shapeless sound
Of your mingling laughter
Fills Joy
To overflowing
Like wine into water
It has changed the color of
Everything
©Edwina Peterson Cross
March, 2005
posted by Unknown @ 3:30 AM
1 comments
1 Comments:
No, Mike, I don't mind your comments! Mostly because in my word processor I have a version of the poem that is identical to what you have proposed. I also have one with the second stanza and without "Darling Daughters" . . . I have one with "Darling Daughters" and without the second stanza. I have one that is only the final stanza . . . In a word: I was unsure. I intend to actually give poem and painting to my daughter's this weekend. In the end I said everything out, to make sure it had been said, thus weakening the poem with a mid-section of prose. You are right, however. These are bright, mega-educated young women, they know how to read a poem. I'm thinking the second stanza goes, but 'Darling Daughters' will stay . . . but I'm still not sure!
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