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Lullabies Memories (to Tess)






             




A little shoe kept with care in a box
beside a pair of white tiny socks,
reminds me of a little baby girl
and the lullabies I used to sing.

Her first dress, now o so small
easily fits on her favourite doll.
Memories of sleepless nights
and the lullabies I used to sing.

Time runs through old calendars,
an hourglass’ sand of all mothers.
I see a growing up girl in that box
and the lullabies I used to sing

Once I helped her with her shoelaces
today I watch how beautifully she dances.
Yet, sometimes I miss the time of then
and the lullabies I used to sing.

Little girl becomes a teen, a young lady
who now and then still comes crying to me;
it’s on those moments, I have back my baby
and the lullabies I used to sing.




Feliz aniversário!
Ik hou veel van jou!






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Today she turns 13  

Thanks Mayne for the picture
Written November 23rd, 2005

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  • Yemassee gold member
    April 10

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    Did I help with the picture? I remember helping with the right one. The girl is old and bigger now. Kind of weird...I watched her go from a kid to now.


    • Mari Goes gold member
      April 10
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      Yes, more than 3 years ago since I wrote this poem, man time goes by too fast!


  • macandrew
    March 21, 2006
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    Indeed a happy birthday for Tess and many proud moments for you. I hope that the years ahead are filled only with close feelings for the two of you.

    best wishes,
    John


  • individuality gold member
    March 20, 2006
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    very sweet and full of loving sentimentality a happy belated birthday too from me time gently caresses us, smiles with life


  • pandora ink
    March 12, 2006
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    Awww, Mom, this is so pretty and makes me smile. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and makes me understand a bit more of what my mom is going through watching me grow up. I know she loves watching me grow and change but she has told me often that she wishes that she could still rock me to sleep and take away the nightmares that haunt me at night. Thank you for writing this!
    Elisa


  • Eeyores Buddy
    November 27, 2005
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    Happy belated birthday Tess, I know i'm late, but that's my tradition i don't like sticking too. When you have a memory like a goldfish, you'd understand
    Mari, I hope she had a wonderful day and this was a wonderful poem for her, They all grow too fast don't they?


  • poetryality silver member
    November 25, 2005
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    HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TESS Hope your day was filled with those things of delight that every teenage girl finds on this special day. Many blessings to you, and many more birthdays.

    Mari, I used to sing vintage jazz to my children, like Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. They are adults now, and I noticed that they all like Jazz. LOL

    It's wonderful to watch the eyes of a baby shine when we sing lullabyes to them. I often wish my kids were babies again. I miss those "shoe box" times. This is lovely. Tess is such a beautiful young woman. Won't be long and you'll be writing about her children. Let us pray we live to see them grrow into the individulas we have worked so hard to mold into respectful adults. Children are a gift. Thank God for them. Very lovely words that seep from a caring mother's heart.


  • Blushfulmoon silver member
    November 24, 2005
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    excellent~

    A beautiful lullabye for a beautiful young lady
    Mari...she is so pretty and so grown up looking
    This is a beautiful poem for your daughter
    Hugs n love
    Susan~~~~


  • leander Moderators member
    November 24, 2005
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    awe such a sweet poem you've written in honor of your beautiful daughter mommers
    congratulations with your 13th birthday Tess
    and the usual three kisses (as it is a tradtition over here in Belgium )


  • Mari Goes gold member
    November 24, 2005
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    Thanks Leo

  • Mari Goes gold member
    November 24, 2005
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    Thanks Marg! I had a large repertoire to sing to her. Last visit to Brazil I used it to make Pedro Lucas sleep

  • Mari Goes gold member
    November 24, 2005
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    Thanks Mi! She printed this poem and a poem that Mayne wrote to her to take to school. He and I hurried up with the picture to have it ready for her to see yesterday noon She was very happy


  • leo2
    November 23, 2005
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    A lovely lyrical verse that shows the love a mother has for her daughter. You have every right to be proud. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.

    Sincerely,
    Leo Long
    ps. Happy birthday Tess


  • MargaretG
    November 23, 2005
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    Mari, your refrain line binds this poem together beautifully, I also think about my babies and the lullabyes sometimes. The last stanza is poignant, you brought me some good tears.
    Congratulations to Tess! She has grown into a lovely young lady.


  • micha
    November 23, 2005
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    HAPPY, Happy 13!!!!!
    beautiful

    Tess~~



    and enjoy, enjoy!


    lol, ah, see, Mari, she still comes to thank and hug you for this special gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • micha
    November 23, 2005
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    oh such a beautiful poem, those lullabies and little socks and to watch this littl;e one grow up...this is so moving, loving, ah, mari, beautiful, as is Tess ...
    as are you, sigh
    this was/is a lovely poem, a special gift to a special 13 year old!

    Happy Birthday, Tess!


    Love this, oh and the picctures are so special, she is, mari, beautiful, so grown up but always your special little girl inside...

    mi mi


  • Mari Goes gold member
    November 23, 2005
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    Thank you Troy for this very lovely comment


  • forty-one
    November 23, 2005
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    Hang on to those memories... the both of you. Keep your mother/daughter relationship beautiful and strong. This was very touching to see you in a vulnerable moment. You heart poured beautifully into the piece.

    Prince

  • Mari Goes gold member
    November 23, 2005
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    Thanks dad, I'll give here your best wishes. We had a good day on her birthday. Wednesdays kids come earlier from school and we had fun making some food together


  • hugh wyles silver member
    November 23, 2005
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    Mi querida Hija,
    ~~~
    I would just like to say
    as it's Tess's birthday,
    that I think it most fit
    if you can control IT.

    Maybe just for today
    let the girl have HER way.
    If you try to keep calm
    it won't do you no harm.

    If she'd been born a boy
    then she couldn't dance poi
    and a boy can't go starkers
    doing haiku and hakas.

    Good advice shouldn't hurt
    if she wears a grass skirt,
    keeping hold of her knick's
    and avoids stupid pricks.

    Looking through baby stuff
    can be wistful enough
    but she's now a grown teen
    to be both heard and seen,

    and I bet, like her mum
    has a beautiful face.
    ~~~
    Lovely poem you have written for my granddaughter, Mari.
    Please give her granpa's best wishes for a happy birthday and lots of love to both of you, and to the bunnies. Applause.
    Love and hugs, XXX El Padre.




  • knasputte12
    November 23, 2005
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    mama!

  • Yemassee gold member
    November 23, 2005
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    Ah Mom, she's growing up! But it must be sad sometimes, to think back. Fond but still sad. Yet, there she is in the kitchen right now, squawking and jumping and whining, and making a mess, lol.

    It is lovely just like Tess and just like you.

    P.S. That little girl is now taller than you!

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