Labour

Labour

Apoplectic murmurs as flesh contracts
Pacing and wandering in haze
Elation merged panic as the gas flows
Time is now forgotten
Life is imminent through waiting bitten lip
Scrunched fist and curled toes
Three wails, twists and reels
No position apparent, no decision made
Nature proceeds, hallucination then engulfs
Gravity descends life form 
Transient separation and then…
Life anchors to openness.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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January 31, 2016 at 7:16 PM
PAUL, A great pleasure to find and read your poem today. Love -- SKAT --
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July 27, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Lovely poem Paula, a warm welcome to the Soup>>James
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July 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Welcome to PoetrySoup Paula.May you grace us with many more of your awesome poems. Love, Carol
King Avatar
July 27, 2009 at 6:59 AM
You captured that moment when joy overtakes the new mother so beautifully, Paula! Thank you, and welcome!
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July 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM
welcome to the soup! Paula! good work!! jim
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