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Open Poetry #43

Then, he was within

poddarku
Senior Member

since 2008-01-15

Posts 589
india

0 posted 2008-09-18 11:39 AM

Then he was within
=========================
( to Kimberly and Bhawana and Janet)
The house used to quiver
whenever a train passed it.
The red eyed lantern became
green alike her face. “Don’t bite
your lips. Don’t bite the lips.”
She was not seeing the face
of the silhouette woman .
So he, still a child in womb
had no memory of a
woman, elderly, eager
to help with the birth. To her
it might be another one.
Still she was eager. A man
barred from the entry was in
his half duty sitting by
his teleprinter. Next train
was at 10 o’ clock. By then
an old man with shaking hands
should cut the cord. Like a drop of
rain he came. Fresh and playful. © 2008 - All Rights Reserved Kushal Poddar

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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2008-09-18 11:52 AM

Thank you for sharing such an auspicious moment! It is a beautiful birthing story, my friend.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2008-09-18 12:30 PM

The most amazing (and of course, unique, seeing that it is you who wrote it, Kushal!

) birth story I have ever read.

I had to read it 2 or 3 times to take it all in. I love the way you bring in the moment, the way you do, especially if this was your own birth because that would make it very difficult to have such a credible understanding of how it - either was, or could have been.

Bravo!

- Owl

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