Poetry Meme

[yakalskovich]

Gacked from schiarire and everybody else:

If you see this, post some poetry on your LJ!

Slow Change - on a new baby

Slowly, slowly as a rose
  unfolds its scented summer leaves
  wears them awhile, and sheds them soon;

Slowly, slowly as a colt
  grows up to be a racing horse
  that wins awhile, then is forgotten;

Slowly, slowly as the world
  is swallowed by devouring time
  one gulp a day, and never spared;

That slowly does a babe in arms
   kneel up to crawl, stand up to walk
   become a person loved by us;

That slowly does a sleeping thing
   open her eyes upon a world
   that she will watch and recognize;

That slowly will we fade away
   our presence turns to history
   we leave our world to her.

(My own, written in 1990 when my youngest cousin was born.)