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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Poetry Jam March 27, 2014 Letting Go!

Baby Turtles, Zihuatanejo, Mexico
November 12, 2012

Raising children is an intricate dance
First a slow waltz usually at night
Sleepily rocking while in a trance 

Later on it's a crazy polka
Chasing those chubby little legs
You will need a strong mocha

Then drama with a hormonal teen
Changes the dance to a moody tango
Happy for a sec and then makes a scene

Look out! Here comes the jitterbug
As they ask for the car keys 
And did I mention using drugs?

Now ready to move on their own 
Not with a Limbo, Twist or Shuffle
It's a new dance- the Stepping Stone.
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Thanks to Laurie Kolp for this weeks 
Poetry Jam theme of Letting Go!

21 comments:

  1. With the hormonal teens I find it necessary to let go of all the things you'd be dying to tell them but would just create more drama!

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  2. Oh yes, when one has a teen ager, one definitely has to be prepared to let go....one little bit at a time!

    It definitely is a NEW dance!

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  3. Hi... I hope that you will visit others over at Poetry Jam this week. We really have a pretty small site...and we thrive on reciprocity. Smiles.

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  4. This is spot on. I love it. Very well done.

    Have a fabulous day honey. Big hugs. ♥♥♥

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  5. Your poem captures perfectly the various phases of childhood.

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  6. oy...ha...its constantly learning a new dance...at each level of their lives...what worked once doesnt any more...and teens, well that is def a different level...and then soon enough they are on their own...our greatest moment of letting go...

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  7. Parenthood is difficult...how anyone survives teenagers is short of miraculous:)

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  8. Love the stepping stone image. I'm going to keep that in mind. Thanks for sharing this piece.

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  9. indeed! dancing through the raising of children is the key. certainly help make the 'letting go' a little easier. Well done! enjoyed your word creation!

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  10. You mean kids leave home? hee hee....just kidding....loved this.

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  11. Ah, the dance of truth. My son and wife have five adolescents in the house. I get to go home ;-)

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  12. Well done.....thanks for sharing this

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  13. You really capture the cycle here! I am still "surviving" the dance lol...mostly enjoying though...smiles

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  14. wow wow wow....just the same thing is going on, in my house, since last couple of days...bringing up children...dealing with teenage daughter...you took out the very essence very briliently!

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  15. That'a what i'm in the thick of, aiming for the Stepping Stone. You got it just rught.

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  16. You just wrote my life; thank you.

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  17. Okay, we were on the same wavelength for this "letting go" topic! It is all a dance!

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  18. Thank goodness they are stages that pass and not permanent (but a strong mocha always works).

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  19. ah...those beautiful moments of life
    to be fondly cherished in later years
    ....

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  20. Kathe, so clever!! And true:-) The dances you chose were perfect, especially jitterbug...at least for me, anyway ;-} And what a perfect ending, we are that stepping stone, and we have to find our own too. Excellent!!

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  21. This is quite well done and rings with such truth, oh those teenage years!

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