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Open Poetry #25

Birth of My Sin

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

0 posted 2003-04-04 10:06 AM

Birth of My Sin

I struggle to free myself
From the confines of a dry womb
With umbilical cord wrapped
Around my neck
Losing its sole purpose to soon
Crying out to no one
In a silent screech
Nothing as it should be
Starting out breech
Tearing and Ripping
At slick pink uterine skin
Tormented by
The birth of my sin

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2003-04-04 10:19 AM

Where did this come from?
One line brought back a memory
some 30 + years old...

my first daughter was born
with the umbilical cord wrapped
around her neck several times;
fortunately, it was four times its
natural length...or she would have
suffocated. I had never heard of
anything like that....

so while this may be off-topic of your
poem, it did bring back the memory of
her birth...

Now, where DID this come from?

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

2 posted 2003-04-04 10:22 AM

It is so funny you ask that..because I have NO clue! I was watching TV Tuesday night and bam! I wrote it as it came to me and that is what I ended up with....I wish I knew.

Susan

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