A Mother - Both Sides Now

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This poem uses the Counterpoint Tree form where counterpoints are aligned either side of a '<=>' with a shape representing the trunk.

"You will never be fully prepared. You will never be fully in control. And yet, you will love them more than anything you've ever known." - Source Unknown

“Making the decision to have a child … is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” - Elizabeth Stone.

5“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born - A mother is something absolutely new.” - Osho

“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” - Source Unknown

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” - Ricki Lake

motherhood

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mother <=> child nestled <=> encircled sings a lullaby <=> shouts rebuke forever giving <=> endless forgiving cuddles with soft hands <=> scolds with look of eyes a candle that gently guides <=> a flint that fires up the child kisses heals with tender grace <=> hugs forgives all falls from grace silence teaches more than words <=> songs unsung are yet always heard soft hands set child free <=> yielding never losing touch endless is the sacrifice <=> small are the rewards beholds the dawn <=> relishes the dusk laughs out loud <=> weeps in silence never ever <=> forgotten beget <=> begotten one <=> all

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