Daughters-in-Love

Tren - Daughter-in-love does sound like "daughter-in-law" but actually it is the term that I use for my circle of extra daughters. I have several consecutive circles resulting in about twenty extras! Laura is #1 daughter-in-love, Lezlie and April's best friend. There are seven in the first circle - my own two and their five best friends who have been together since Middle School and who have spent thousands of hours here. A couple of them actually lived with us during part of High School. This is the poem and painting I did for them recently. Left to Right: Jinni, Lezlie, April, Jocelyn, Laura, Sarah, Rachel. It is hard to make someone look like themself from the back!


Darling Daughters . . .

Clear, clean, ceaseless lights
In a world that has gone
So dark
Brilliant scattering of stars
Still you blaze
In strong, single constellation,
Though you are
Swept far and wide
Across a hungry
Star swallowing sky

The sweet shapeless sound
Of your mingling laughter
Fills Joy
To overflowing
Like wine into water
It has changed the color of
Everything


©Edwina Peterson Cross
March, 2005