I am ten years old
overalls and jelly shoes
and I watch as my mother replaces the lights in our garden with 10 small solar laterns.
Stretched on my tip-toes helping her hang them, she tells me of their magic
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A refined poetic imagination, Lee R. You may like to read my poem, Love And. Thank you.
It's a poignant piece of poetry! I moved by the last three lines of your poem: I wish she would have shared her darkness with me/Let me kindle her burning like kindred cinders/No single flame can banish an eternity of night skies.....Thanks for sharing....10