Poetry Friday: Children of Air

Glad to be here on Poetry Friday  hosted by Sylvia Vardel @ Poetry for Children

Mother’s Day.
A day that was
all about mom
my mom’s mom.
and grew to
my husband’s mom.

And then
me.

Now in
my students
I see
whispers of my own.

Precious gifts
their sweet souls seen through their mother’s eyes.
I say,
If this was my child…
and every day is
Mother’s  Day.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, To Any Reader, tugged at memories of my own children, long grown. Children of air. Lingering. Aren’t we all those children?

 

To Any Reader

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

As from the house your mother sees

You playing round the garden trees,

So you may see, if you will look

Through the windows of this book,

Another child, far, far away,

And in another garden, play.

But do not think you can at all,

By knocking on the window, call

That child to hear you. He intent

Is all on his play-business bent.

He does not hear; he will not look,

Nor yet be lured out of this book.

For, long ago, the truth to say,

He has grown up and gone away,

And it is but a child of air

That lingers in the garden there.