Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPEAKING, SHE SAID, by STELLA LUCIA MANN


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SPEAKING, SHE SAID, by                    
First Line: As you grow older
Last Line: Your face is a beautiful map of the world!
Subject(s): Aging; Mothers


As you grow older
I like to watch the map
that is your face --
that island of peace across your forehead
surrounded by lines
that many pains have cut;
that archipelago of wrinkles
that sprinkle down like rain
near eyes where many smiles still sparkle!

There is no droop at the corners of your mouth --
that heavenly gateway of sweet speech
and loving words --
there's a slight upward turn
to greet the little mountain of a nose
with a small bridge on it!

Your eyes are misty pools.
They are deep sea-blue water,
deeps beyond deeps,
like Homer's wine-dark sea.
Your eyes are rivers, calm rivers.
Your eyes are springs -- deep springs --
my springs! You are my mother.

Your eyes are stars in a deep, dark sky.
The stars are in the deep, sea-blue water --
they are in the rivers,
they are in the springs.

Your eyes are stars in a deep, dark sky --
Your face is a beautiful map of the world!





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