Open Poetry #37 |
A (my) Mother’s Travail (May 1926-March 2006) |
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4722 A Mother’s Travail 18 December 2005 Children by numbers born a mother to carry and then bare This naked child to life only days he did ground face Second to oldest - but elder to live forty in five years a target never to be For who was the ageist in sister now while another son did open his heart A mothers loss miscarried to term her travail in number five To thank God her youngest was in Christ born alive Six days of birth - out lived in child this parenthesis to father in sum Her three children she remained to hold her own being frail in entity all told a poet who cares |
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