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If I Were There – Heather Mirassou

If I Were There

by Heather Mirassou

Peaches and pears your delight
Divine roses a gift from your wife

Your favorite soups and stews
Lamb and veal cooked to and fro

In silence in your hammock
Hoping the sun melts the cancer away

If I were there
I would rub your brow and wet your lips

If I were there
I’d warm your sheets and fluff your pillows

If I were there
I would bring you home under the old oak tree

If I were there
I would fill your house with sunflowers

If I were there
I would sing sweet poetry melody

If I were there
I would lay next to you and comfort you

If I were there
I would read you prayers

If I were there
I would have said goodbye

My knight and shining armor

Dedicated to my father; Jim Mirassou



Nature’s Hope – Heather Mirassou

Blue haze surrounds

She looks ready to birth

She is only

Half-Crescent tonight

I can see her

Slow

Methodical movements

As she readies her bed

She is alone

Her mate will be home soon

She will wait patiently

Until they are one

Before she gives birth

To her swollen

Ghost white belly

You will see her too

When she is full, bright

Glowing, shining

We will all be in awe

At the exact moment

Her baby arrives

It is the unknown

We never tire of

Instead we

Look forward

What is to be?

As a Bronte sister once said;

“Hope’s spell glorifies”

Like the young

To this aging eye

Nature & Earth

Full of billions, trillions

Of mysteries

The fearful

The fair

The young

The old

She soothes us

Lull’s us

hypnotize us

Brings us

Qualities

To conquer

Our fears

She is sister to me

Sister to faith

Nature is her mother

Her father the Universe

When I look upon the

Ocean and Sky

So vast and mysterious

She holds my hand

Makes me strong

Makes the moon ready

To bare

If I am not feeling

Comfort

Or I am afraid

She becomes my guide

When my fate is

Uncertain

I have lost

My way

Hope Sustains

No matter my path

My weakness

Becomes strong

As I wait

For spring

I elate.

Copyright, Heather Mirassou  6/23/2010

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Angel of God – Heather Mirassou

“I wrote this poem when my little sister was born. She is twenty years

my junior and has grown into an amazing young woman.

An embryo in a cocoon of safety

slowly unfolds into a world of hands.

Hands of unconditional love

bring her into the beauty of light.

No longer floating

now breathing the lightness of air.

She fights hands and fist,

unknowingly being adorned, brought into life.

Kissed by an angel, he leaves his mark

as she is grasped by her loving parents.

She is a gift to them, a gift to this world,

an angel of God.


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