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September 3, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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October 19, 2009 at 11:33 am
This one I read at the summer meeting last year. It has been published since then.
Water-birth
Your crown burns like fire as you pass
From womb to warm water
Without a gasp
Submerged, head first
Eyes hidden,
Your fine hair sways like sea-grass
And the soft helix of your ear is born
Naked on my thigh.
All is still
And time is measured in a breathless pause
Generations seem to pass
Waiting for your shoulders to rotate,
Until
With pouting grimace
Your profile glides to view.
You are familiar, I know you.
A wave of agonising joy and you surge forth
Ejected and expelled
At once alone
Separate
Launched into life, at last
I lift you slowly and
Your head emerges
From the balmy water.
You take a breath, your first,
And murmur sweetly,
I breathe you in
Gaze into the dark universe of your eyes
And hold you to my breast.
Carol Falaki
October 23, 2009 at 11:07 am
Carol – delighted to see your poem on here! Wonderful to see it in print, and that it’s been published – and it was so well received last year. Will put you up a page under “Readers’ poems” and copy it there too.
August 23, 2010 at 11:12 pm
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