Here’s my latest entry into the dVerse Open Link – why not take a look at everyone else’s wonderful responses?
This piece is in honour of family – mine, yours, past, present and future. I’m a September baby, as was my dad. Autumn is my favourite season, it’s my season, my family season. For me, it’s a time of looking forward and back. I hope you enjoy my short but hopefully sweet piece.
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– Lineage –
I trace the lines from me to you
The DNA meanders through
the decades separating us
Reflected in our eyes.
I trace the names repeatedly
The warp and weft of history
binds us closely, centuries old
Hearts linked across the years.
I trace the lines around your eyes
The crooked smile points to the ties
that show us to be family
Connected for all time.
Trace your future to my past
The generations move so fast
Enjoy your life, be proud, be strong
Your history lives in you.
Freya Writes... 
Lovely Freya, I had to look up ‘weft’ but well chosen, exacting a clear meaning….liked it.
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I like to educate my readership too! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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I like to educate my readers too. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
somehow couldn’t find a comment box…so just replied..ha… love the tracing of the lines…the DNA…the common denominator that makes a family… surely to be treasured..
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Thank you, Claudia. Yes, it’s all precious.
Amazing poems my friend…
Excellent structures blending abstract with imagination on a good plate. 🙂
Thank you so much – both for taking the time to comment and for the compliments! I’m gald you enjoyed the read 🙂
You are so very welcome…:)
Say, if you are interested stop by my blog today and check out my poem. 🙂
Finally got to it! Commented – and loved it. I’ll be back 🙂
Wonderful rhythm .. You really got it right 😉
Thank you, Bjorn. 🙂
Lovely post.
Thank you, Tamara 🙂
beautifully written… & happy birthday, Freya
Thank you so much!
smiles…i like the tracing of the lines of the eye that make you family…so many stories in those creases and crinkles you know…smiles…very cool verse…and i love autumn as well….my fav season and way too short!
Thank you, Brian. I’m pleased that you enjoyed it. Yes, let’s hold on to the season whilst we can…
This is very cool, love how you wove it together so well. It is a glorious season! Happy birthday!
Thank you, Shanyn!
A sensitive reflection on family history and heredity. Very nicely said.
Thank you so much. Learning lessons every day – and glad to be able to work through them creatively 🙂
Always interesting to contemplate the influence of heredity. I do agree that history lives within a person and is passed on through DNA.
Yes, the old nature v nurture question arises, doesn’t it? Thank you for popping in.
I love the flow in this. There is such a fascination to family roots. I’m sure I could become addicted to a site like ancestry.com
Step away from ancestry.com – oh the terror! 🙂
I’m so glad you enjoyed my piece.
love the poem..our lineage traced through the eyes..profound truth..the eyes as the windows to the soul and the soul carries the blood and glory of ancestry..BTW, autumn is my favorite season as well 🙂 nice job
Thank you so much!
A couple of my sons have September birthdays…y’all are cool people 🙂 “Hearts linked across the years” yes, our history does live in us, so true.
I’m pleased you enjoyed it – and that you have September boys 🙂
We are everyone before us . . . a microcosm of what came in the beginning, a brotherhood oft forgotten.
It is well to be reminded as so tenderly does your poem.
Cheers!
Thank you so much, Jeff. Family has been on my mind a great deal of late.