Father Goose Books: 2009-12-27

A Poem for My Daughter and Her Husband on the Birth of My New Grandson

YOU AND THE RISING SUN
for Julie and Scott

You pull back the drapes
and the morning light
climbs across your covers

like Winnie the Pooh
who’s come to wake you,

to warm you,
to welcome you
and your sweet son
into this most golden day of December.

Such love, such light,
such overwhelming joy
for a rising baby boy
born into this world
that has waited so long
for this love song
to sing us all into the choir
of everlasting love love love.

***

YOUR FACE
for Christopher Pierce

Your face

your funny sweet
oh what a treat
face

the face I see
in dreams
in grand
fanta-sees

so much to see
what fun!
my grand
grand

grand
grand
grand
GRANDson!

©2009 Charles Ghigna

“You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” —Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
— The Velveteen Rabbit

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of the imagination." — John Keats

“It is Art because it is alive. It proves that, if you and I are to create at all, we must create with today and let all the Art schools and Medicis in the universe go hang themselves with yesterday’s rope. It teaches us that we have made a profound error in trying to learn Art, since whatever Art stands for is whatever cannot be learned. Indeed, the Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself, and the agony of the Artist, far from being the result of the world’s failure to discover and appreciate him, arises from his own personal struggle to discover, to appreciate and finally to express himself. Look into yourself, Reader, for you must find Art there, if at all.” --E. E. Cummings

"There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. We become clairvoyant. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences, but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it." --Robert Henri (1865-1929)

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