Poetry Friday and Published

I had a short article accepted over at Inspired Mother Magazine. My thanks to editor Jennifer Hogan Redmond who has done a wonderful job with this online magazine. So stop over and read my article, Letting Go, then stay and browse for a while.

Since I'm on the topic of mothering this week, here are two poems from Ruth Bell Graham.

Oh, time! be slow!
it was a dawn ago
I was a child
dreaming of being grown;
a noon ago
I was
with children of my own;
and now
it's afternoon
--and late--
and they are grown
and gone.
Time, wait!


May she have daughters
of her own
to care
when she is old
and I am gone.
I should have loved
to care for her once more
as I did then
long years before.
I was a mother young
and she--my child.
Caring was joy. So when
she is old and I am There,
may she have daughters
of her own
to care.

More poetry Friday poems at Laura Salas' Writing the World for Kids.