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Open Poetry #42

Acouba

TinaTrivett
Senior Member

since 2006-07-15

Posts 569

0 posted 2008-05-29 03:36 PM

Acouba...
Taken from homes distant shore to be tossed in the deep waves.
Her children left to cry for a mother they'll never see again.
Breasts hang heavy and low, not able to feed her own baba.
She is taken to a strange place, full of faces from many tribes.
All of them so beautiful, so brave....so scarred, so scared.
Here she will care for the wit children.
Sometimes she pretends that they are her own.
She doesn't know which fate is worse...the motherless child, or the childless mother.

Robert Frazier
Senior Member

since 2003-02-06

Posts 1014

1 posted 2008-05-29 03:38 PM

Elegantly poignant...heartrending.

R

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

2 posted 2008-05-29 06:13 PM

This made me ache.
Nicely done.
~Heather

TinaTrivett
Senior Member

since 2006-07-15

Posts 569

3 posted 2008-05-30 08:40 PM

Thank you both.

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2008-05-31 02:59 AM

Tina

So beautiful and heart-stirring.

Alison

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2008-05-31 05:11 PM

very beautiful and original...

thanks

yann

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