“…no danger in her warm hands…”…my poem

“…no danger in her warm hands…”…my poem

whisper in gentling words…

 

 

Learning

 

She was happily proud

   to show me the new chicks,

her loving hands firmly full

  of the downy creatures,

she taught me how

   to gently stroke them,

my hand, suddenly,

   it seemed too hard

      for touching,

I stretched one finger

   to the tiny heads,

I wondered how those peeps felt

   in that tiny moment

      of such awful risk

          that they couldn’t imagine,

I wanted to whisper,

in gentling words,

that there is no danger

   in her warm hands

      or my careful caress.

 

May 18, 2023

Inspired by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s “Springing” on May 17, 2023, on her website:

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2023/05/17/springing-3/

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