{"id":3183,"date":"2017-10-13T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T22:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2018-01-16T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:22:54","slug":"a-mothers-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2017\/10\/13\/a-mothers-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother\u2019s Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. I walked with my first daughter midst life and knowledge grown<\/li>\n
  2. To teach her truth and wisdom and lessons never known.<\/li>\n
  3. I watched with anxious hoping as she took her first bite,<\/li>\n
  4. Then under blade aflaming, I said my last goodbye.<\/li>\n
  5. I sat there with the handmaid to calm her troubled heart,<\/li>\n
  6. Allay her casted thinking, her fears to all depart.<\/li>\n
  7. She could not see nor hear me; I reached inside her soul.<\/li>\n
  8. For soon she\u2019d hold my baby, and we would share a role.<\/li>\n
  9. He stood in nurtured waters; I waited up above.<\/li>\n
  10. By Grace, entombed and risen, and I sent down a dove.<\/li>\n
  11. With still, small voice of whisper, I solemnly decreed:<\/li>\n
  12. This is my son beloved, in whom I am well pleased.<\/li>\n
  13. I beckoned from the pages to come into the grove<\/li>\n
  14. The singing and the buzzing, his knees to them they drove.<\/li>\n
  15. Within the fire column, I hovered as the sun.<\/li>\n
  16. \u201cDear Joseph\u2014My Beloved; hear counsel from my son.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Listen to me read this poem and explain the symbolism and imagery:<\/p>\n