Took a test out the blue
It was positive for you
I was drowning in happiness at the thought of us two
Nature dropped a bomb
I was gonna be a mom
If history was accurate, I was anything but calm
Endless nausea spells
Couldn’t stand any smells
This was way back when you were just a cluster of cells
Then the flutters began
All the wellness exams
You were a beautiful surprise on our ultrasound scans
My pant sizes grew
My belly grew too
We were fighting morning sickness but we both made it through
Every kick and every turn
Even the crazy heartburn
You were the greatest life lesson I was ever gonna learn
Fast forward to the date
I no longer had to wait
You were breaking down the door trying to make the great escape
I couldn’t believe my eyes
All the pain—I wanted to die
But then you made your big debut and I never felt so high
They brought you to me
I never felt so much glee
I couldn’t wait to hold you in my arms so gracefully
The love I’m expressing
There’s no second guessing
My sweet baby girl—you are my life’s greatest blessing.
In this dark, I’ll create my light: ‘Rambi’
Switch gone realities to fantasies
lit green in sun and rains continual
Awash, rainbows flittered o’er land and sea…
Balm-like, soft thatch lightens my concrete tomb
Endless walls in a salty breeze dissolve
lifting heavy drapes to dance with palms tall
Languidly lacy, they sway where birds thrall
Ah! Warm sands I sip, drowning in aqua…
(12/28/21: Inspired by B forms contest)
Amor, you allude like a cloud
To something great
Your name, a promise of Jerusalem
Your exclusive mouth, like water
on my dry lips and deeply vacant chest…
I’ve never touched a cloud
Nor known the inevitable fog
Of falling into you
But now that I know…
You’re not even Tel Aviv to me
Nor San Juan, nor Bayamon
You’re a makeshift castle
A colonizer
Pressing your smooth arms
Tight around my shrugging native heart
At the chance
I offered my hair, my amber perfume
I made my eyes a place to bathe
Your obviously filthy feet
Offhandedly, you spoke of the sea
But all I see- is violence in your city
You spoke of passion as though
It’s synonymous with love
But I see fatherless children
You’re not that man who saves
But the tide which takes me away…
A convincing title
A bait and switch
A hook for virgin lips
And now I’m a bud among weeds
That are due to be cut down
You are among me
Take your shot now
Since I know you shoot me down
Leave me alone, cabron-
You always leave me wanting
And I’m not fighting anymore
I’m dancing on the shore, Puerto Rico
This is my story, here
And la isla sets me free
Isla Mae
By Nathan Hannen
My dear, Little thing, Who is young and sweet
You blessed my life by chance, Your little pattering feet
You fill my life with joy and love, My sweet, Your my love
Precious baby, With skin so soft, You were given to me, By the Lord above
Your sweet little hands and your small face, Filled with beauty
The best thing I have, My little Tooty
One day you will be older, But I don't want that yet
You will always be my baby girl, Please don't forget that
I love you my darling and my eternal friend
The End.
Levity from the pain of a love that was never meant to be
within the portrait of our fillial destiny
was what you granted to me while wanting nothing in return
but affinity of hearts for the lesson of love to earn
such moments when we descry our children laughing in warmth
of sun;orchestrating celebration of marriage to flesh and air;
of God's revery upon their souls for us to share
through grace of senescence until our final breaths are taken
for to breathe eternal life into our souls within a world
where the entity of love capitulates our force amidst His embrace.
Circle the 1st letter of the 1st line,circle the 2nd letter of the 2nd line,3rd letter of the 3rd
line,4th letter of the 4th line and so on until it spells out the name of a special woman.
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