Colleen’s Weekly Tuesday Poetry Challenge: Origin & Write – A Newborn in the Family
The prompt words for Colleen’s Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 125 are “Origin & Write” – #SynonymsOnly
A Newborn in the Family
What
A joy
To welcome
Baby Tori
My niece’s first child
Into the family
Eager waiting is over
Magic of baby’s first cry
Cast away worries and doubts in mind
Mother’s painful labor forgotten
Holding and beholding the miracle
Amazed by life’s fresh beginning
Overwhelming excitement
Shared by parents, grandparents
Siblings, aunts and uncles
New page of a book
Invites us all
To pen in
Colored
Stroke
~ ~ ~
The Showers of Blessings 
Beautiful post! Congratulations
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Thank you so much, Kara!!
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I love how you are always able to take simple things and common experiences (like baby showers) and bring such a breath of wonder into them! So sweet a poem.
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Thank you, H.R.R., my family enjoyed the poem. Excitement like this stimulates thoughts, feelings and imagination!
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Congratulations Miriam. A nice documentation of the new arrival:)
Pat
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Thank you, Pat for stopping by, read and comment. We’re excited and shared photos of Tori.
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Thank you Miriam. And a huge Congratulaions on the book. I wish you loads of success!😚
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Thank you very much, Pat! 🙂
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Hold and behold…
Congratulations and so beautifully shared, this joyous news.
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Thank you so much, D. We’re excited. 🙂
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Beautiful 💜💜
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Thank you, Willow. ❤ ❤
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❤️❤️
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❤ ❤
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What a joyous poem, Miriam. How sweet! Congrats on the new member of the family. ❤
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Thank you, Diana. Colleen reminded me to send the poem to my niece and I did. I ended up posted it on FB and shared with many family members. ❤
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Congratulations to all on the happy occasion of the birth of a new great niece. How exciting. And a beautiful poem to welcome the child with well-chosen words.
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Thank you, Norah! We’re so excited. I can imagine how exciting with my niece and her husband and my sis-in-law’s family. I was nervous and excited at the same time when Autumn was born.
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Great times, Miriam. xx
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Yes, I got great photos of Tori, thanks, Norah. 🙂
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Miriam, this is beautiful and captures the miracle of a new child and how it touches all the close family and friends. It is so strange but true how the pain of labour is almost instantly forgotten when holding ones child! Congratulations to your niece!
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Thank you so much for your comment, Annika. Isn’t a mother’s love beautiful? I read some short stories about the amazing power of human being – a car ran over a child and the mom ran over to lift up the car and pulled her child out under the wheel. I don’t know if it was fiction or how big the car was if it was real, but emotionally, we mothers could endure a lot for our kids.
Thank you!
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How lovely, Miriam. There is nothing as wonderful as a new baby.
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Yes, Robbie. I remember your niece (?) being born and all the excitement you had.
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It is really so exciting, isn’t it Miriam? Seeing a new little soul enter the world with such endless possibilities 🙂 It is what we should all strive to be live 🙂 🙂 Full of new eyes, trust, and love 🙂
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It’s so true, Margaret. Yes, we’re excited. Tori is my sister-in-law’s first grandchild. I still remember how excited and nervous I was when Autumn was born. 🙂 🙂
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It is the most natural thing. We wait, and wait, then they get here and we are so scared. 🙂 It is that parent love that kicks in and makes us so aware of things we never thought so seriously about before 🙂 The love for our children, any child really is the most miraculous thing ever. It is the closest I feel we will ever feel to how God feels about us 🙂 hahaha that was a LOT of “feel”ing in that reply 🙂 LORD, I thank you for Miriam, and ask You to continue to bless Your new little, beloved girl, Miriam’s niece, and Miriam as well 🙂 🙂
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Thank you so much, Margaret. I know it so well about the miracles in babies. 🙂 My daughter Mercy was born at 28 weeks, 1 lb. 13 oz. stayed in the NICU for 9 weeks. When her daughter, Autumn was born, the doctor order the C-section in time to catch that the cord wrapped around the baby’s neck twice. I have double miracle on my daughter and granddaughter, and double thankfulness. 🙂 🙂
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Congratulations, Miriam. What a lovely poem dedicated to your niece. You should write this out for her. I love it. ❤
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Good idea, Colleen. Baby Tori was born at 7:30 am this morning. We were busy texting everybody back and forth. I’ll text this poem to her! ❤
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What a wonder gift it is. Congratulations to everyone, welcome to this world little angel. I love your poem.
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Thank you for reading my poem, Hélène! Yes, we were busy texting to everybody this morning. What an exciting news!
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🙂 🙂
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