Love and legacy

 

Love and legacy 

Love, family,legacy

Overlooked 

Thought Ordinary 

the love and joy 

"kinship, personal ties"

assurance

affection

enthusiasm, 

devotion

the experience and recollection of family 

Legacy

transmitted

Received 

ancestor 

predecessor

opportunities 

undying  

Came before 

carried over from an earlier time,

Everything else fades away,

riches, fame, beauty, but Love, 

"Love Endures Forever". 

The one thing I can give

 to everyone I meet,

pass on to others

A structure can  be built that lasts between people 

A love for one another preserves, 

Love bridges

  the heartaches,

        the division, 

                the years of joy

   

A fine tree, along a well-trodden path, years of growth, times of soaking,

Nourishing in its roots and branches, like family trees

Roots run deep, in times of strain, love- deeper still

We received from our ancestors; we pass it on.

Lean back against the bark

Look up

Live well and you will leave something of lasting value, 

When time is spent together 

It's so hard to say goodbye 

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -every, every minute?"*

Love and Legacy, Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta

About this poem:  Love and Legacy is a poem about friends, family, love, and the joy to pass on lasting values and memories.  -Joe Holuta

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*Let's really look at one another!...It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed... Wait! One more look. Good-bye , Good-bye world. Good-bye, Grover's Corners....Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking....and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths....and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth,you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every,every minute? (Emily)

Thornton Wilder, Our Town