I loved this blessing for your inner child, Lisa. I found this to be a comforting prompt as well. I wrote mine for everyone who has ever been threatened with a "just you wait..." as if they only had the bad to look forward to, or an "it goes so fast, enjoy it!" when everything felt too hard.
I loved this blessing for your inner child, Lisa. I found this to be a comforting prompt as well. I wrote mine for everyone who has ever been threatened with a "just you wait..." as if they only had the bad to look forward to, or an "it goes so fast, enjoy it!" when everything felt too hard.
I think that might depend on the reader! I spun my poem off the saying, "the days are long, but the years are short" because, especially now that I'm a parent, it feels truer than I'd like it to - the days often drag on, but the years are passing so quickly - so I framed my blessing as a sort of reversal of that phenomenon, but I can see how some might see a wish for shorter days as the opposite of a blessing!
I understood short days to mean days when you're so present and in the flow of your life that you lose track of time. I think for me, "longer days" would have the association of sick or bickering children or maybe long hours stuck in airports due to unexpected flight delays. 😂
I loved this blessing for your inner child, Lisa. I found this to be a comforting prompt as well. I wrote mine for everyone who has ever been threatened with a "just you wait..." as if they only had the bad to look forward to, or an "it goes so fast, enjoy it!" when everything felt too hard.
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May your years be long;
may they sigh and stretch
and linger deliciously.
May your days be short,
and filled with sweetness.
Oh my goodness, are there any 5 lines on the planet more delicious than these!?
Oh, probably😅 but thank you
I really liked this. Compact but conveyed a lot! How do you think it would read if you substituted “short” for “even longer”?
I think that might depend on the reader! I spun my poem off the saying, "the days are long, but the years are short" because, especially now that I'm a parent, it feels truer than I'd like it to - the days often drag on, but the years are passing so quickly - so I framed my blessing as a sort of reversal of that phenomenon, but I can see how some might see a wish for shorter days as the opposite of a blessing!
I understood short days to mean days when you're so present and in the flow of your life that you lose track of time. I think for me, "longer days" would have the association of sick or bickering children or maybe long hours stuck in airports due to unexpected flight delays. 😂
Yes! I figured so. Good stuff A.
Such a lovely juxtaposition in these lines, A. - and so much conveyed so vividly with few words - truly artfully done!
Short and sweet! And packing a punch!
Thank you for this sweet poem A! As usual, it makes me think of when mine were young!
nuggets of gold.
Thank you so much, Chuck!
This is a beautiful nugget from you, A -- thank you!
I want to call all my short poems nuggets from now on.
Very nice, A. I say Aloha, Amen, Ashe, Shalom, Salaam, Peace, Blessed be and May it ever be so to your sweet blessing poem!