//ABOUT THIS BLOG...
Years ago, I picked up a fascination with names...their meanings...the rhythms behind them. I chose to respond to it poetically.
This blog's a collection of some of the name poems I've written over the years.
ORDER A POEM: If you'd like a name poem written for you or someone you care about, please email me at thenamepoet@gmail.com.
(I was asked to write a name poem for a newborn. I guess I could've penned an acrostic name poem as is commonly done for children, and sometimes I do, but for this, a free-flowing poem is what emerged)
Your name honours the sea
She honours you in return
by carving your nails
from the most delicate of her shells,
your tears from her finest salts,
and making seagulls your life-time guardians.
Swimming
is your first language
for it was the sea
that taught you
how to swim
to the womb.
At dark, her mermaids creep ashore.
Shhhhhhhh....
They listen to you through shells
to make sure you're okay while you sleep.
Somewhere out there, Dylan,
is a dolphin
born the same time as you.
Yes.
It awaits your friendship.
©Copyright - the name poet.
[Dylan - Welsh name meaning 'Great tide' - male]
OF INTEREST: A Child's Name Mug: Dylan
As I walk
through a library of memories,
my eyes fall on a book,
a thick leather-bound book.
I open and read of a Pharaoh
who had the courage of a Masai warrior
with arms that could weld the heaviest sword
and yet ...gently rock a child to sleep.
He was never afraid to stand firmly
in his own light,
in his own beauty,
his own wisdom.
His people loved him
and he loved his people.
Reluctantly,
ever so reluctantly,
I close this book
knowing it is not mine.
If you choose to read it,
to intimately reacquaint yourself
with each and every page,
you'll discover this book
...is about you.
You are that Pharaoh,
that warrior
if you choose to remember.
©Copyright - the name poet.
[Ade - Yoruba/Nigerian name meaning 'Royal One' - male]
