<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Poem to my grand-daughter on the day she was born. (I can’t read it tomorrow because I will be flying back home.)</div><div class="">Her name came to the parents the day after her birth.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Aya Ray</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you child of the new day</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">for being born<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and drawing out from within all of us</p><p class="MsoNormal">the wholehearted fairy tale princess,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">uncovering the heroin of myths and legends,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and revealing the magical land<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">where the new born without a name <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">swims back to the wombs of father and mother<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">through the dispelled amniotic fluid<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">through the dissolving of generations<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">through all the disincarnate beings<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that make up her stellar cluster<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">to retrieve her true name <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">never forgotten<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">but escaping enunciation.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As sparkling drops of rain <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">pause expectantly <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">waiting for the sun to warm them up <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">until they let go <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">of their frozen hold on branches<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and with a last sparkle <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">gently fall onto the dark earth<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">into a mysterious world full of life possibilities, <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">her ever-flowing fount appeases the thirst<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">of millions minuscule sentient beings<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sauntering, swaying, dancing,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">to welcome and embrace the new-comer,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that dawn spirit, goddess of light<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that ray of sunshine<o:p class=""></o:p></p><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aya.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="D222D7C7-D846-4463-ABE3-27E7D4214D38" src="cid:AC6181B2-E49B-4056-A46B-97F8D3687657@attlocal.net" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="38565E7C-F430-49FC-99F8-D04607BE3C72" src="cid:96B82D1B-FA81-432F-8701-06C43291B18C@attlocal.net" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="92BB35A4-791D-4B40-BC62-576F14AB5CED" src="cid:95ACCB98-E391-48E8-8129-A861C8A6B133@attlocal.net" class=""></body></html>