Best Laboring Poems

In my head, I’m in the library, at
a podium, before a microphone, looking
out into the faces of a yearning sea
of people, knowing they expect 
a little kindness but mostly, a lot of
answers from me.  Beyond them,
on the far wall, there are words carved
in the...

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Feeling this disorganization
Reaching out for new awareness
Cold rubble beneath our hands
No conception of darkness
Is this the cruelest con
Moving boulders across this floor?
Feeling my spirit breaking
When asking, "What's this for?"

All we know for certain
Is surely we do not know
And we pray to the blackness
To reveal which...

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perfect pace of performance portends potage and potables


5/11/2022
WORK PERSPECTIVE MONOKU
Sponsor: Beata Agustin...

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Fifty years ago today, on this National Holiday,
I was busy laboring away..
At the tender age of twenty-two God blessed
me with a son, Matthew..
Heaven opened up above and brought a baby boy to love..
All mothers know that special bond, the first birth, that number one..
I watched...

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