Across an Autumn Sky
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Upon Hearing She Is With Child
Body glistening in wet ocean spray,
White sands, warm breeze, sunlight over the bay,
Swim suite barely able to contain
The pressure of a mission to restrain,
The smoothness of back, tight, firm, singing,
A caravan along the
Downward, pulled by gravity to embrace
The delicate compression of slim contoured waist.
A smile to make Mono Lisa deploy;
Beauty that rushed a thousand ships back to
Sway and movement that exhausted the Supremes
Design team, all propelled by legs from dreams.
But all is meaningless unless one speaks
Of heart of gold and a new found
Wisdom, forgetting damage from the distance past,
Forgiving one’s self and accepting real love,
Embracing a new life
That settles to earth with child
As anchor of two new births.
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About the Book
Andre Glide, the great French naturalist, used to wonder as a child why people could not look into his eyes and see what a great genius he would some day be.
We all live with a personal view of life, and in the later years tend to look back with new found perspective and wonder why the young around us can’t look into our eyes and see that which has been seen.
This book contains a long lens view from a particular but rather normal middle class American life, and shares thoughts, some harbored for many years, some expressing a desire for a better world in which children and grandchildren can prosper in peace, some expressing personal opinions, and others simply remembering things past.
This is a journey through thought as much as event.
If these words cause one to rethink their relationship with the elderly in their family, have more tolerance for those around less fortunate, reevaluate their associations, and expect more common sense from the people we have entrusted with our institutions; and the flow of the language is pleasing to the eye, then effort is rewarded.
About the Author
Mr. Redmond is retired and lives in