Day 10 – Love

05 Jan 2012 3 Comments

by Karen in Love Tags: fruit of the spirit, Galatians 5:22, love

There’s nothing quite like a mother’s LOVE.

As most of you know, apart from being Mrs Fruit Salad I’m also Karen Collum, children’s author. I’ve been writing seriously for about four years now and nothing thrills me quite like words. One of my beautiful writerly friends, Kathryn Apel, is hosting a Month of Poetry throughout January. Today’s challenge was to write a sonnet. I’ve never written a sonnet before, but thanks to Kat’s wonderful online lesson, I decided to have a go. And once I’d finished I knew it would be the perfect post for our fruit today, love. I think God gave mothers such a fierce love for their children so they understood just a smidgen of the love he has for them. That love is big and powerful and sometimes scary. They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. I would say whoever wrote that has never seen a mother protecting her child.

So here’s my very imperfect sonnet, “A Mother’s Love”.

A Mother’s Love

A mother’s love aglow and fiercely bright

It renders her a lioness, sharp and taut

A warrior, sword in hand, a fearsome sight

She strikes, the battle of love is fought

 

For none who dare to cross her precious child

Should come with notions grand and victory won

Be underwhelmed by one so timid, meek and mild

For ‘neath the doe-eyed stare there lurks a gun

 

The woman who in all her life and days

Would never hurt or maim or kill or strike

When placed between her child and dangerous ways

Thinks not a second, hour or minute or the like

 

The arms that held, caressed a child so dear

Are they the weapons one should so greatly fear