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February 2, 2022
Filed Under: Healing, Reflections on Love
4 Comments

Happy Birthday to my Daughter, Feb. 2, 2022

There are words and sentences and paragraphs and stories to describe you.

There are phrases and poems to illuminate the love I have for you.

But I can’t find them.

They rebel against these familiar methods of communication.

They can’t sing their truest notes or phrases or rhythms or harmonies.

No dance understands the fullness of life within you or moves with

the syncopation that touched your hearts’ beat, arriving when you were born.

The letters which make up words don’t seem to find each other,

in any language, to paint the piece of art that knows you.

And yet, in the trying, there is the gentleness one could

call the love of a mother for her daughter.

Always filled with surprise, like the exhalation of breath, but no.

There is more.

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  1. Samaea says

    February 2, 2022 at 3:20 pm

    I cannot find the words to respond to this poem. Those of us that know the two of you, know and inhale…

    Reply
  2. Naphtali says

    February 2, 2022 at 6:35 pm

    Yep, delicious, evocative poem from my multi-talented, big-hearted Chaya. Happy give birth day. Much love, Naphy

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    • chaya says

      February 2, 2022 at 7:40 pm

      wouldn’t be here without you brother Naphy

      Reply
  3. Julie E Nesnansky says

    February 3, 2022 at 3:00 pm

    Beautiful

    Reply

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