I past this fridge poem and was intrigued when my friend told me that it was not meant to be a poem at all. My friend and her mother spontaneously crafted this poem over the course of a few days or weeks, and didnt even know about it until I asked. If you read the poem from top to bottom it sounds rather choppy but at the same time elequent and meaningful. When I looked past the surface level coherentness I found it to coincide beatifully with this particular mother-daughter relationship. I do not know this family too much, however parallel themes of hope, security, and love pervade the lines crafted by both mother and daughter. The glimmering beacon of "tomorrow", the "dawn" of a "new dream", hangs in the distance, while reference to divinity and the scriptures imply an omnipresent loving father who has been involved ever since "the beginning" of time or even the birth of the mother or the daughter. This beginning of the poem could possibly be read as reasuring backbone for all the future endeavors of mother and daughter or it could be an expression of the mothers gratitude for all she has in her life presently and previously. Another interesting tidbit is the appearance of the frog and the car dealership card. These innocuous symbols, posted alongside innocuous poem, can be woven into the total picture as well. The car dealership, a symbol for independence and longing, is posted above the poem along with a frog, an object yielding thoughts of prince charming and a harnessable chance at love. Tell me what you think. I just thought the random poem was too cool not to post.
