Night Poem From Khandro (Sun.)

[Khandro]

Earlier (& lighter!) than usual. Anybody's birthday today? it's one of my daughters' for sure.

A Birthday
BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI


My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

[Rosie29]

Beautiful poem Khandro.
And Happy Birthday to your daughter.

[Mamyalynne]

Lovely, Happy Birthday Miss K. x

The Birthday Wall

CJ Heck



In Daddy's bedroom down the hall,
there's a special place, The Birthday Wall.
Every year about this time,
he hugs me then he draws my line.

We look at where I used to be
when I was small and only three.
Much higher, then, the one for four,
then five, then six, and now one more.

On the wall two names I see,
my little sister's, then there's me.
Sissy's line comes to my nose.
To look at mine, she's on tiptoes!

Sometimes when I am feeling small,
I go down to see The Birthday Wall
to see how big I'll be next time
Daddy hugs me and he draws my line.

[woofgang]

Happy Birthday to your daughter

Pippa's Song
THE year ’s at the spring,
And day ’s at the morn;
Morning ’s at seven;
The hill-side ’s dew-pearl'd;
The lark ’s on the wing;
The snail ’s on the thorn;
God ’s in His heaven—
All ’s right with the world!

Robert Browning

[margarettom]

Best Birthday Haiku - Birthday Cake by john tiong chunghoo

birthday cake
brighter and brighter
each year

birthday
brighter and brighter
each year

Hope your daughter has a good one.