Grandchildren

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="03cc8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="13bb2ac0.jpg" border=0 width="178" height="428" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial" ><B>Naming The Grace</B></FONT>  |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Naming The Grace"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#00FFFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Few Pages of Poetry"><U>A Few Pages of Poetry</U></A></div> <div> Grandchildren                                          <IMG SRC="13c843a0.png" border=0 width="388" height="314" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1562ecf0.png" border=0 width="302" height="463" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="14bbbbc0.png" border=0 width="187" height="188" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>                     </div> <div>   Grandchildren                                                 <IMG SRC="12366210.jpg" border=0 width="358" height="289" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> You come, a bright tossed bag of gifts.</div> <div> You are strawberry tinted and willowy,</div> <div> You are jumping, jerking, whirling, spouting,</div> <div> with flat stretched out hands.</div> <div> You drop like pearls,</div> <div> children from children,</div> <div> diamonds from gold,</div> <div> precious treasure from gathered wealth.</div> <bR> <div> You are passive and quiet and bright and righteous,    <IMG SRC="127d2490.jpg" border=0 width="210" height="329" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="12fff480.jpg" border=0 width="255" height="328" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> son of your father, child of your mother.</div> <div> You are darkened and winsome,</div> <div> dancing on dreams of differences.                               <IMG SRC="14d92e20.png" border=0 width="146" height="226" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> You are tiny and your voice sings like a bird.</div> <div> You are moving beyond my carefulness</div> <div> to kingdoms I will not see,</div> <div> planting stones to glimmer in the light</div> <div> to the borders of Paradise.</div> <bR> <div> You are running, playing,</div> <div> all in order - the beauty of quietness, </div> <div> the psalms of peace, a peasant girl with trains.</div> <div> You are active and busy with moving, arranging,                              </div> <div> rearranging and changing the world; you cry, forging your way.</div> <div> You reach with wonder into the past,</div> <div> a knight in a castle, </div> <div> with cowboy boots to steady the armor.</div> <div> You are silent, a smile, of memory,  you fade into my lost world. </div> <div>  He will bring you home again  erasing our tears.</div> <bR> <div> We are waiting</div> <div> and here with arms outstretched.<IMG SRC="12ae7300.jpg" border=0 width="231" height="304" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> You are gifts, children of children,<IMG SRC="1337c070.png" border=0 width="380" height="263" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="8" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> diamonds from gold,</div> <div> precious treasure from gathered wealth</div> <div> and I am here </div> <div> with arms </div> <div> out stretched.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>                                                                                                                     <IMG SRC="148a94a0.png" border=0 width="169" height="330" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="14664230.png" border=0 width="356" height="291" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>