Leapfrog
This poem to mark my nephew Jack's first birthday on Sunday was partly inspired by the writelink write angles competition.
One.
Small stretch
for us, your time
leapfrogs on tottering
legs, jolting from crawl
to waddle on wibble-wobble
stalks; leaves still curled up, bud
face opening out slowly to the world.
I relish your chuckles, how expressions
unfurl so freely. If I could, I'd steal from you
incomprehension that it's even your birthday;
how nature protects, hugging you close in its sepals.
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Comment from: jak [Member] · jakill-jeansmusings.blogspot.com
You are so clever, Sarah. I love the metaphor in this, and the subtleness of it. Seems to me, the flower thing is a bit of a theme in your poetry, or some of it anyway.
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11/06/08 @ 10:38
Comment from: greenygrey [Member] 
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Nice poem Sarah
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11/06/08 @ 14:57
Comment from: sarah_james [Member] · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk
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Thank you all. I hope my sister likes it. If she does then it will have done its job.
It's been an insight though. I've had to change x times because what forms a right-angled triangle in back-office doesn't come out the same front end, hence a different version of the poem here to the one that was probably sent to subscribers.
PS Yes, flowers definitely seem to keep creeping into my poetry, along with water;. I'm sure that should help me shape a collection, but it has done so yet! ;-)
It's been an insight though. I've had to change x times because what forms a right-angled triangle in back-office doesn't come out the same front end, hence a different version of the poem here to the one that was probably sent to subscribers.
PS Yes, flowers definitely seem to keep creeping into my poetry, along with water;. I'm sure that should help me shape a collection, but it has done so yet! ;-)
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11/06/08 @ 21:02
Comment from: linda d [Member] · http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/linda
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Loved this!
It was my son's birthday 2 days ago so I thought of him as I read your poem although he's not so little now - in fact, he's a proud parent himself.
At the time, the first few years of a child's life seem endless with so many milestones along the way, but later they flash by so fast you hardly have time to count.
It was my son's birthday 2 days ago so I thought of him as I read your poem although he's not so little now - in fact, he's a proud parent himself.
At the time, the first few years of a child's life seem endless with so many milestones along the way, but later they flash by so fast you hardly have time to count.
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12/06/08 @ 15:57
Comment from: chausiku [Member]
Oh he will treasure this when he's older...
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12/06/08 @ 17:25
Comment from: sarah_james [Member] · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk
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I hope so, Paola.
Yes, the time does go fast. When I see my nephew on webcam, I can't believe how much he's changed just since I saw him in the flesh at Xmas. I can't believe I won't be able to make a fuss of him on his birthday either. Oh well, the world may be smaller in many ways these days, but it doesn't always feel like that!
Yes, the time does go fast. When I see my nephew on webcam, I can't believe how much he's changed just since I saw him in the flesh at Xmas. I can't believe I won't be able to make a fuss of him on his birthday either. Oh well, the world may be smaller in many ways these days, but it doesn't always feel like that!
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12/06/08 @ 20:17
Comment from: Wynn [Visitor] · http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/wynn
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What a unique style of setting up the poem. I enjoyed it a lot.
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25/06/08 @ 08:54