Grandmother’s Song--By Pam Murray--Canada

Grandmother’s Song

What do you dream of

As you toss and turn?

What will the days bring

And what will you learn?

You ask your questions

And I just don’t know

The answers, but I love

Watching you grow.

Each day you seem taller

And wiser to me.

The world is more open

As you make me see

Changes and sameness

That shift like the sands

And imagination

You shape with your hands;

The colours you picture,

The stories you tell.

Just watching your slumber,

You shape me as well.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Pam Murray has been writing poetry since the mid-1960’s.  She was married for over 41 years and has two daughters, a son-in-law, and a grandson.  Pam has been published in a variety of venues.  Her proudest writing accomplishment was a poem she wrote for a United Way fundraiser, which was later framed with a French translation and hung on the wall of the legislature in Ottawa, Canada.  To her, poetry is a transposition of a vision she sees in her mind. Writing and crocheting are her passions.