Baby Love

Cherry

By Turlough

Fri, 22 Oct 2021
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18 comments
 

Two new eyes

Startled; staring out at

An old world.

Not knowing it's old.

 

Two new lungs

Taking their first gasps of air

Breathed a million times before,

But by whom?

 

Two new ears

To absorb

Words of adoration.

Isn't he lovely?

 

A new mind

On a journey to understand

The universe and its entire contents.

Wherever they may be.

 

Four new limbs

Setting foot

Beyond the womb's walls

To make a mark and earn a crust,

To be someone to love and trust,

To make those promises and mistakes,

To make hearts leap and maybe break,

To make a million cups of tea,

To make great journeys, cross the sea,

To make the most of what's beyond,

To make a wish and wave a wand,

To grow some veg, to till the land,

To play for Leeds or form a band,

To sing out loud, then even louder,

To make his family even prouder

Than at that moment he was born

To make a precious lifetime dawn.

 

A perfect little soul

To make more perfect little souls.

Life goes on,

Will go on,

But for this wee man

It's only starting.

 

Note: This is for my new grandson who arrived in the world last Sunday.

Photograph: Courtesy of my son, the baby's father.

Certificate U
Poem
Poetry in Commotion
Love
Autobiography

Comments

Submitted by celticman on

some baby to hold, how precious as we grow old. 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Very precious.

Starting the process again of contemplating the preciousness of a newborn baby three decades after our first batch of new born babies.

Nothing changes ... always precious.

Turlough

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

This is such a gorgeous poem Turlough. Your little grandson must make you feel very proud.

Congratulations and I enjoyed reading.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you Jenny.

I already have a tiny grandaughter and three grown up kids but the feeling of pride has never diminished as each one has entered the world.

As life goes on some things never change.

Turlough

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

What a new beginning celebrated! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Turlough on

A celebration indeed!

For me there is no finer thing in the world than a new baby to make the heart sing. It's even better being the grandfather rather than the father as this time round I don't have to get up in the middle of the night.

Turlough

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Big congratulations Turlough - lovely poem for a beautiful baby!

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you very much indeed. 

I haven't met the little fella yet as we live 3,000 kms apart. So I sent the poem to my son and he read it to his son and everybody smiled cried. 

Turlough

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Wonderful poem, mixing deep and funny

and Congratulations!

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you Di for your kind words.

Deep and funny is exactly what I was aiming for as that is how our family is. This wee fella will fit in perfectly, I'm sure. 

Turlough

Submitted by Tom Brown on

"A perfect little soul, to make more perfect little souls. Life goes on". A beautiful poem on the cycles of life!  Don't worry by this time I could already have been be a grandfather myself.

Tom Brown

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thanks very much for your comment Tom.

We have the champagne on ice in readiness for the appearance of your grandfatherly poem.

Turlough

Submitted by marandina on

"To make a million cups of tea..." Yep, about right. A beautiful poem with appropriate optimism for life in general (apart from the bit about playing for Leeds). Paul :)

 

Submitted by Turlough on

"To make a million cups of tea..." is a reference to the young fella's grandmother's habit. Making a million cups of tea is a bit of a family initiation ceremony ... on her side, of course.

And in terms of Glory Glory Leeds United, you've got to mention the optimism. Without that we'd have disappeared up our own tunnel a long time ago.

Thanks for doing the reading and the commenting thing. It's greatly appreciated. 

Turlough

Submitted by Nolan on

scary &

 

Submitted by Turlough on

In what way scary?

Turlough

Submitted by Nolan on

It is a lot of responsibility to have a child, things can go wrong, and things will. You take the chance of pain and loss, and serious hurting and not only yourself. In these times too, you can't even be sure of a good income, but most of us happen half-and-half unexpected and unplanned. Thrown into this hard and cruel world. Fools rush in.

I'm definitely no expert, but, Scary

A leap in the dark as such. All the best! Nolan &

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Aye, it's true, children are a big responsibility. I had three of my own and things went predominantly well with all of them. They're all in their mid-thirties now and two of them have kids of their own. At two and a half years of age, Baby Love is the youngest and a gorgeous little happy little smiler of a man.

Things can go wrong with anything we do in life but nothing ventured nothing gained, as they say. In our family we always look on the positive side, and I'd say that exciting is the best word to describe the arrival of a new wean.

And there may be more to come... watch this space!

Turlough