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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 33. Four Aging Rockers
1. The Child’s Rocker
Three brown-eyed brothers shared with me their books:
Babar, Just so Stories, Winnie-the-Pooh,
tucked into one of several cozy nooks;
but each of them, in time, my size outgrew,
while passing years abused my modest looks
and so it seemed my usefulness was through.
From dusty attic rescued recently,
I’m waiting for a boy to read to me.
2. The Black Painted Rocker
I’m used to babies crying in the night,
for many have I rocked to sleep and nursed
to settle back to slumberland’s delight
with lullabies and music unrehearsed;
and soothe in comfort, sadness or in fright
with stoic rhythms fit for each outburst.
Look not upon my battered paint with scorn,
for gentle love’s the reason I am worn.
3. The Needlepoint Seat Rocker
Nigh ninety bleak Novembers did I view
before old fingers stitched upon my seat;
with painful care a spray of flowers grew
and blossomed bright, the fading light to cheat.
But cold came to those hands ere snowflakes flew,
so other hearts my garden did complete.
Their seedlings, now full-grown, rest in my arms,
a refuge from the snowy winter’s charms.
4. The Lady’s Rocker
My old red cushioned seat has seen some wear
since I was once great-grandmother’s retreat
from such a world as commonplace made rare:
no longer horses labored in the street,
the ragman’s cry unheard upon the air,
and cozy fires replaced by central heat.
Yet since such days as progress might repress
were wonders wrought great-grandma could not guess.
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