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Poetry: On birth 17 Articles

  • 1 of 17

    by Michelle N. Broughton

    (This is not a rhyming poem, but one of prose.) SUMMER BIRTH Restless, rolling, sweating, unsleeping, I mentally try to push the heat away. The air ducts are dry of cooling waves; humidity pulls salty tears from m...read more

  • by Jennifer Medley

    Breathing in your water Feeding from your body Sounds echo like a cave Feel your insides; you feel mine I hear your voice singing I feel your tension when you cry Someone just touch you and also touching ...read more

  • 3 of 17

    by Barry Williams

    A mother's joy A girl or boy Maybe both Maybe more Is what's in store A father's pride A grin as wide As a harbor's mouth A family now Parents, you can take a bow A new life here on earth A tiny baby for all...read more

  • 4 of 17

    by C E Goulden

    When Angel Wings Part And now my years I believe Has not been all a passing dream A rain passed, while, clouds parted Ah! You were born into the lovely morn Now and then I stood under billows of...read more

  • 5 of 17

    by Jennifer D. Stone

    The waters will still ebb and flow, the moon still pull the tide, but nothing could be more naturally so, then the tears from a mother's eyes. They start the day your child is born, when first he's laid upon your breast. I...read more

  • 6 of 17

    by Mary Tyrer

    "A New Life" Sitting here waiting in a lonely room Silence is all around, and we wait Listening for cries from her empty womb The birth of a child, please don't come late. She makes funny faces and wiggles around ...read more

  • 7 of 17

    by Gerry Legister

    The pain went far and I went along I tried to walk but could hardly stand I watched as my son was born Love builds the bridge And I felt the change Between his heart and mine With joy I ending up smiling like a clo...read more

  • 8 of 17

    by Nickel Didier

    The beginning of it all Is like no other, The life at birth Is a start of forever. An incredibly special day And the pleasant experience The nature of spring The feeling of sense. Like a secluded area Of a...read more

  • 9 of 17

    by Anna Ortlieb

    I am not what I was I'm no longer that and I am no longer this I am free Love cut the veils from my eyes I am the wild card in the game Peace is my wish, love is my journey, light guides me through. I am like a newborn ba...read more

  • 10 of 17

    by Shannon Lemon

    My sweet baby. As I nurish you inside me, I know soon you will be free. The pain that rushes upon my thighs. Through the halls, you can hear my cries. He is coming so quick and fast, the pain thickens, the pain lasts...read more

  • 11 of 17

    by Paula Hodges

    For Love of Grace Forced out of the safety of my body in a gush of life sustaining forces you arrive in such a rush. And I have to admit that I am taken by surprise... Life is recreated in an instant with your cries....read more

  • 12 of 17

    by Carol Natoli

    Birth is one of those mysteries, in God's plan, along with the reality of the stages of gestation... a miracle and a mystifying moment.. that takes a parent's breath away!read more

  • 13 of 17

    by Radhamani Sarma

    Nomenclature This potentially hidden primo face, Life force, in the beautified clay, this body,lurkingly mobilizes, singly,a manipulating wizard, goes by many names, life, breadth, soul and Atman, how it...read more

  • 14 of 17

    by April Heath

    Future vs. FORTUNE 500 (or Perhaps a Farmer) I am a fertile field You could plant a seed of most any variety In the dark, rich soil of my womb And I would house it, discomfit myself to give safe harbor At personal r...read more

  • 15 of 17

    by AMERICAN MAN

    ~=REBORN=~ People are reborn biologically recreated as children this is our eternal life in the evolution of human kind Our minds are the part that collects spiritual information processing it as if it were dig...read more

  • 16 of 17

    by Mascaretta Shamoo

    Begins the passage of time, Marking down the date, We will mark the passage of time, I have marked this fourty-seven times, Living and breathing, doing the best we can, For some this is outstanding since the...read more

  • 17 of 17

    by Joyce Neilsen

    Birth He forced me out of my mother's numb body as I floated in a deep and silent sleep drugged like my mother Cold steel wrapped around my tender skull squeezing..pulled hard by the head with a man's strength Rele...read more

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