Scratchy hay tickles your toes
My blue woolen mantle, your warm protection for now
The texture of your life doesn’t yet know the sting of the whip or the rough hewn cross.
Rough wood cradles your newborn form
Gossamer starshine sprinkles your face
Scratchy hay tickles your toes
The slippery lowing of cattle slides in your ear
Your soft essence belies your strength
My blue woolen mantle, your warm protection for now
Your velvet touch sets my heart ablaze
Yet my goose bumped flesh shivers sadness within that love
The texture of your life doesn’t yet know the sting of the whip or the rough hewn cross.
This cascade poem was written for Patrick’s Pic and a Word Challenge #166 – Texture. I used the lyrics from the Christmas song, “Away in a Manger” to compose this cascade poem. It’s one of my favorite songs for this season.
Wishing all those who celebrate a Merry Christmas!
©️ iido 2018
I Do Run 
You are so creative with this cascade poem. It is beautiful. Have a lovely Christmas Irma.
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Thank you Hélène! Have a Merry Christmas as well!
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Love how this poem appeals to your senses drawing you into the moment. Merry Christmas! 🙂
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Thank you! I’m glad my purpose was achieved. I didn’t include the sense of smell though…😁 Merry Christmas to you as well!
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Good point! I wonder what kind of smells would be there during that time… 🙂
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Probably not very poetic smells! 😂🤢
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Well done Irma! It truly pulls you into the scene!😊 ❤️
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Thank you! I’m really working on that! ❤️
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You’re very welocme, it was well done my dear! 🙂 ❤️
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wow I really love this new take on the nativity, addressing the senses … well done Irma 🙂
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Thank you! It’s amazing how prompts and what’s going on in life can come together! Happy holidays to you dear friend!
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and you, have a good one!
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This is lovely.
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Thank you, Oneta! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!
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Love the nativity perspective texturing the reader’s senses. Lovely, Irma. Happy holidays to you. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Olga! Happy holidays to you as well!
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This is so, so beautiful. Wishing you and your family merry Christmas! 😊❤️
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makes me so melancholic, your poem and photo tells of a very precious moment.
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Yes, I do feel some melancholy with Christmas as well. For me, it’s thinking about the suffering the beautiful child would one day endure.
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and what the mother must have felt, this year I listened to some really moving sermons about the perspective of the different people involved in this birth, it has given me new perspective on strength of faith.
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Those must have been interesting sermons! Interesting enough to write/blog about them or share what sermons they are? I am always interested in issues of faith since mine always seems to waver…
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I am not sure I can write about them, I am passionate about the content that I hear but maybe not suitable for this platform. I can link you the sermons in an email and you can listen to leisure. you will get to hear our Malaysian way of speaking!! LOL!! Faith is personal, if I can just share and plant a seed, that is enough, the rest will follow the individual’s heart condition. but the perspective I get from listening to different lay preachers really opens up my mind.
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Agreed! I would love the links if you don’t mind sending when you get the chance. Thank you dear friend! ❤️
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