The Story of my Blog Title

Quilt of Dragonflies- My blog is named that for a reason.I am lucky enough to own a genuine Quilt of Dragonflies, which I am sure brings me good dreams when I sleep beneath it. It was given to me by a friend of my mother's, who handmade the entire thing. Color meets pattern in this fantastic piece of artwork which sits on my bed. Brilliant shades of purple, blue, and green intersperse with tie dye dragonflies. I will not hesitate to call it my inspiration.







Friday, December 17, 2010

A Year in Your Life

A Year in Your Life
By Claire

Life is a year
Starting in the winter of early childhood
Foggy, dark, and cold
Memories are minimal, and scattered
A haze of cheerfulness
Moving on to the spring of youth
Energy, and constant motion,
A thousand things happening every day
Next comes summer
You are in the prime of your life
Joyful to be alive
Gaining new heights
Aspiring to new dreams
Then, it is fall
You are burdened by the wind
That seems to whistle through your bones
Which ache now, after being used so much
But the trees are in their full glory
Brilliant colors shine out from the brown trunks
And finally winter
When all you want to do
Is cuddle under your blanket
By a warm fire
And fall asleep

2 comments:

  1. "And fall asleep" . . . Great ending! It sounds sad, maybe remorseful, yet peaceful. A life ends, remembering golden times before, and cycling back to the beginning, a life begins anew.

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  2. Is autumn meant to be our "golden years," like the blazing fall colors of New England? Strikingly alive yet dying as well? Nice poem, Claire!

    --GRG

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