BLOGBLESSSING: PRECIOUS HANDS

Today's post is brought to you via the Irish Parenting Bloggers Group, a group I am honoured to be involved in. 

It's spring and we're celebrating new life, the cherry blossoms are turning pink, the daffs are singing in the wind and new buds are bursting from every plant. And two of our members are having precious baby girls.

Trees turn pink to celebrate baby girls being born

There has been a series of 18 posts in 18 days: a Virtual Mother Blessing for two of our members with 2013 babies. 

I am the last to post. Last but not least, I hope. 

My gift is a poem written in the dead of night, when trying to get my baby back to sleep (at least night wakings are useful for something ;-)

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Precious Hands

You'll never have hands so small again

Perfectly formed, so full of flesh

Grasping mine tightly, pure innocence

You'll never have a body so small again
Pudgy limbs, cuddled in my arms

Surrendered entirely, a warm woozy trust

You'll never have skin so soft again
Thrilling my senses, my favourite cushion

Nuzzling and rubbing, orgasmic flesh

You'll never have hair so fine again

Smoother than silk, who needs scissors

Blowing in the breeze, like dandelion seeds

You'll never need me as much again
Disturbed from sleep, in pain or fear

Clinging for dear life, adrift in time

You'll never want me so much again

I'm freezing time HERE, holding you longer
Saving this snapshot, precious hands holding mine








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Here's all the other bloggers taking part:

The Nest 
Mind the Baby
Wonderful Wagon
That Curious Love of Green
Debalicious
My Internal World
Awfully Chipper
Go Dad Go
The Dare Project
The Clothesline
Dreaming Aloud
Kate Takes 5
Ouch My Fanny Hurts
Pomp
Musings of a Hostage-Mother
Wholesome Ireland


My post cryptically carries the letter M.