Mom Diminished Hexaverse Poems

A labor of love
 Frequent contractions
Bloody show appears
Belly and back pain
Her water breaks now

The baby drops
Loosened-up joints
Cervix dilates
Cramps are intense

Nauseous mom
Start the drugs
Feeling great

Bear down...

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a house divided.
mom and dad at war.
mom is to the right,
dad is to the left.
child stuck in-between...

is confused and
devastated.
bitter divorce,
all but certain.

who do I...
live with...

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As my mind dreams deep...
And I sleep the night 
Warm drafts...breeze on me 
I see mom...with tears 
Dad, smiles...next to her 

Lost in now time...

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The first voice I heard
I heard from your womb
an angelic sound
that brought me comfort
lulling me to sleep

I’d listen to
your every word
each inflection
mesmerizing

mom you spoke
so softly
I...

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From her womb...come birth
A child...a new life 
His first sound...a cry 
His first sight.... his mom 
His first feel...mom's arms
 
His breath...so soft 
Small toes...wee...

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Family life messed up
Do not feel safe
Do not feel loved
Yelling and screaming
Hitting and hurting
 
Mom says get out
Child is nine
Reality
It does happen
 
Who can help?
Take...

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Evil under the bed,
Bogeyman alive
Child barely three
Hair stands up on arms
Cannot sleep tonight

Calls for mommy
Calls for daddy
Calls more loudly
Someone comes now

Touch, cuddle
Hug, snuggle
Reassured

Sleep comes
Mom’s arms

Safe...

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There seemed no redemption
from a crucial mistake
while escaping dear home…
I watched stars up high
enkindling raw freedom
to search the eagle's trail.

Yet this reckless dream
bore uncertainty;
as sundown...

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when I came back home
nineteen-eighty-six
Mom says not normal
making niece so scared
even my best friend
said I was bad
making me sad
now times have changed
new family
with new friends
and...

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Pennsylvania
is my home for now
born in Germany
an army brat than
and traveled a lot

Dad drank too much
and Mom left him
up the East Coast
he followed her

Mom raised...

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the hollow presence of things unseen seem to be my biggest blessing cursed to live in a world were the wrong decision can be your...

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can’t go home again
it was bad for me
doctor did me bad
and no one believed
because of my head

on Turkey Day
called a rapist
by my best friend
Mom gave...

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If there is an earthquake,
If there is thunder and lightning,
If there is a fire,
If there is a hurricane,
If there is a tsunami,
There is nothing left.

If...

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Running in the yard
Splashing in a pool
Squishing mud with toes
Dashing here and there
Playing everywhere.

Dad picked you up
Mom kissed the hurts
Sis hugged your neck
Bub mussed your...

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God, if you would please
let my Brother hear,
what I have to say
I did not have time
while he was alive

Now he is dead
thirty years now
when we...

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