Paulien Bats art 6Originally uploaded by gumbootspearlz.

I love this picture by my friend Paulien.  It seems an apt one to share on Valentines day.

Today all the mums with prep kids were invited to class just before the end of school. Our little ones had baked us jam tarts. They also wrote a little note of why we were Queen of their hearts…. very sweet.  We played some games with them as they took over their classroom and hosted us for Valentine’s Day.

This is a poem I wrote for my first born (just about to turn 11 years old) and his father

Life lines

Imagine you gone
no you to share this life
spread out in the palm of
our tiny son’s hand

no life lines
leading me to see this worlds
in his grasp which comes so easily
to trust us

each finger folds
you and me
in a single stroke
he leads us to guide him

he touches our cheeks
and leaves affinity deep
within our grasp

our heartlines joined
have caused him to appear
as if he has always been
the answer which we sought

he recreates our fortunes
in curtain fig trees
stretched along the Strand.

As we read the stretch of lines in
each other’s Hands
& hold this phenomenon
so dear
so fragile

the palmistry of this beloved
unfurls
the universe

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