Growing Up: Prompt

Linda Gregerson's wonderful poem, "With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath," is today's poem on my blog.

It is a moving look at motherhood, a lyric moment of being in the present and--knowing things will change--wanting to stay there. Anyone who has a strong bond with a child or a parent will read this poem and think, "Oh! I have a new favorite poem!"

Gregerson's poem is the basis of this prompt. Picture a perfect moment with your child or when you were a child with a pa...