Love. A Photography and Poetry Prompt.
This week’s Photography and Poetry prompt is ‘Love’. As I had already written about Ross last week, I decided that this week wasn’t going to be the romantic kind of love. It had to be a mother’s love.
The feeling of being a mother can be really overwhelming on so many different levels and for many different reasons. But being a Mum means unconditional love.
I have taken many photos of Grace over the 8 years she has been on this earth. I have to stay that I think that this is one of my favourites. It shows her vulnerability as she watches something on TV that is getting a bit scary and all I want to do is reach out and cuddle her.
Love
From the moment I held you in my arms
I knew I must keep you safe from harm
For you there is nothing I wouldn’t do
I’d go to the ends of the earth for you
Like a lioness, I’d fight for alll your rights
Who cares about the sleepless nights
I look at you and I see pieces of me
I try hard to help you be all you can be
I want you to try and live all your dreams
And live life so full it bursts at the seams
Try your best, stand up for yourself
Don’t you worry, you won’t be left on the shelf
A mother one day may be what you become
And you’ll no longer look out for number one
You’ll start to share an understanding of some
Of the feelings that I share with my very own Mum
One day I am certain that you will find
The love of a mother, the unconditional kind
Victoria Welton 17th February 2015
aawww my mummy loves me SO much too! This is a gorgeous photo and what a lovely poem. You are very talented x x
Beautiful words , gave me goosebumps reading them and so true. I can see why this photo is one of your favourites, stunning xx
Love, love, love …
“I want you to try and live all your dreams
And live life so full it bursts at the seams”
Wow … you rhyme so well! I love poetry but I’m not a good rhymer at all. I look forward to joining in with your prose linky soon. #PoCoLo
This rings so true. I now know the true meaning of unconditional love, only after becoming a mother myself.
Absolutely beautiful; both in the way you’ve captured her vulnerability and the way you’ve captured your own love for her 🙂 xox
Hi Victoria,, that photograph is so natural, I can see why it’s your favourite. Grace is absorbed in whatever she is watching and seemingly unaware of the camera, which is why this picture is so good.
The poem you wrote sums up how being a Mum makes us feel; protective, nurturing and of course, proud….Lovely.
Love this – summing up what it is to be a mum isn’t easy, but I love the words you’ve written in your poem x
Beautiful words, lovely. The power of a mother’s love is indescribable. The photo is gorgeous. x
What a gorgeous photograph, really lovely and as you say totally captures her #pocolo
That photo is beautiful….Such gorgeous words.
Such a lovely and wonderfully written poem. You’ve certainly captured the unconditional love of mothers. The photo wants me to reach out and hug her, too. x
Absolutely beautiful photo, and equally beautiful words. The love for a child is truest unconditional, and you are right, it can be such an overwhelming feeling to be a parent x
Gorgeous photo. I can see how it inspired that poem. As soon as that little being is put into your arms, there is an overwhelming need to love and protect. 🙂 xx
There is nothing like a mothers love, fab poem. Fab photo of Grace, she’s definitely looking vulnerable there, still looks very pretty though.
I can hear this as a song! Get the guitar out 😉
Lovely words for your beautiful daughter #PoCoLo #Prose4T
That’s a gorgeous photo of Grace and I love your poem – sums up the unconditional love of a mother so beautifully.
Lovely picture and words 🙂 There is indeed quite nothing like this kind of love… unconditional as you said
Bless her! Lovely words and a lovely picture.
Gorgeous words lovely, summing up how a lot of us feel I imagine xxx
Wow, what a beautiful poem. It captures everything about being a mum. It is interesting how you only really appreciate your own mum when you become one yourself! That unconditional love that over-rides everything else is incredible.
Beautiful words Vicky, all so very true. And, that is a lovely photo of Grace x
That brought a lump to my throat to Vicky. Just simply beautiful and one that I can most definitely relate to, on so many amazing levels 🙂 #prose4t
Gorgeous words, Vic. And a beautiful picture of Grace and yes I can see the vulnerability so clearly. Thank you so much for hosting xx
Gorgeous poem, really wish I could write like that! But you’ve said everything I’d want to say, I may just borrow it 😉 and her vulnerability really does jump out of that pic, fab shot! x
Such a beautiful poem that that really encapsulates motherhood. x