Yes, for those who have children there is always worry whether they will prosper or not. With the misfortune will come along their way or they will exceed beyond all expectations. One never real one has reached an age where one can pull a quilt up tight to keep warm and to contemplate all that has gone before.
That photo, that I thought was your artistry, initially, is very apropos for the story that the poem suggests.
Again, what lies between the lines and what is left unsaid perhaps plentiful and full of value to complement the comforting symbolic image of the blanket. As you so quixotically ended: "for those with less - and less than none, but nonetheless....." Lovely. Saying so much with so little.
Greatest gifs are those that were given from the hand, and toiling for it, was the ultimate present of love, its beautiful and so is your poem dear Diana
So simple a message to comfort so many complexities that live with us every day. Wonderful painting, I agree. Going to steal it for my collection of screen savers.
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
Regis. 🙏🌺
I found a replica of your image here:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Lived-Experience-of-Suffering%3A-A-Parse-Research-Pilkington-Kilpatrick/9da6258759c66bbee6642e579a8a9d98b5efaefb/figure/1
Published in Nursing Science Quarterly 2008
The Lived Experience of Suffering: A Parse Research Method Study
That photo, that I thought was your artistry, initially, is very apropos for the story that the poem suggests.
Ron