The Blessing

[ClaireC]

The little girl smiled at me,
her eyes so big and blue
as, again she repeated her plea
of kindness so very true.
She wanted me...

[ClaireC]

Thank you Muttado1sb and Sumyanna.

[ClaireC]

Thank you to both Sumyanna and rhymetime.

[ClaireC]

Yes, good job for picking it. It is a concentration camp. I recently visited both Dachau and Auschwitz, so it was fresh on my mind when I was writing...

[ClaireC]

Yes, this is an imaginary piece. At the time when I wrote it, the city where I live had recently suffered quite a few abductions of children in a short...

[ClaireC]

Bobby Del Boy, Thank you for your comments. May God bless you too!

[ClaireC]

RhymeLovingWriter, The French Resistance inspired the poem. I wrote it for the Rhymezone Poetry Contest (community). It is probably more enigmatic than...

[ClaireC]

Are you asking about me or my poem?...

[ClaireC]

Silent watching,
silent creeping,
stifling my coughing.
day is for sleeping.

This underground,
is for the good,...

[ClaireC]

That's great! I'm so glad you liked it!

[ClaireC]

Barb wire fences,
Twisted and cruel,
I can hardly collect my senses.
I’m fed cold, watery gruel

Tight knit and close...

[ClaireC]

Newspapers were the way to go,
They contained the weddings and obituaries.
And seldom a thing you needed to know,
You could not find...

[ClaireC]

High and low,
I'm looked for him,
Searching so,
I wanted him.

"Come, my dear,"
I cried,
"We're...

[ClaireC]

Hauling logs,
moving and chopping,
faithful dogs,
trees ever lopping.

The timber trade
will never die.
the...

[ClaireC]

Thanks.