12 May 2017

Ella - a poem


Ella Louise.

Warm, soft-scented, fragile,
helpless.
Ella.

A new sound vibrates through our family rooms.
New shape and colour to our lives.
A necessary shuffling of labels, 
an adjustment of status to accommodate her.
Child to parent,
parent to grandparent.
Grand-parents spun further 
to the outer rim of the Wheel.
The greatest transition.
The most meaningful rite.

Birth.


First published in by Indigo Dreams Publication Reach, 2017.

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