Long Bassinet Poems

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Premium Member Black Widow

She waits,
eight black spindles joined at one end by a pivot, a compass.
Each pinpoint balanced at the intersections
of self-drawn polygons.
Legs jointed like the fingers of a skeleton,
deft, dexterous as a harpist.
Body in two sections with ample abdomen,
the African who carries the water jug on her head.
Or an Indian, the untouchable with her caste mark,
the microscopic grains dropping through the hourglass
like drops of blood.

Blind, she has the surrogate sense of a seismograph.
She would feel a disturbance in the web
were it only a thought.
Never mind she lives in a dark corner
as devoid of light as she is of personality,
she needs neither.
She does not look as the wrapped body of her cannibalized mate
as at a gilt-framed photograph of the dearly departed.
The egg sac is not a silk-lined bassinet,
the hanging ornament
to all her future hopes and dreams.

She is absent of frontal lobes,
moralizing modifiers,
second thoughts.
An instrument of logic,
mate=food
sac=young,
syllogisms minus all prepositions,
additional excess cargo to be jettisoned 
as the dried shells of devoured prey.
No welcome mats on the front step,
no settees in the parlor,
no cunning seductress with scarlet claws.
Only a modem waiting in the spaceless black.
Form: Imagism


Premium Member Baby's Check List

I am taking care of my 11-month-old grandson. I love every-minute and he's stolen my heart. I've seen the growth within him with lots of love and affection he gets. He is crawling and into everything.  I never realized how many things needed for this small infant.

Car seat or they won't let you leave the hospital without one 
As many diapers as you think you'll need 
Diaper bag that handles everything you need on the go
Baby changing table, diaper change as quick as you can they get pretty squirmy
Wipes for their sensitive skin
Diaper rash ointment relieves baby's painful rash
Grocery store plastic bags, fantastic for disposing all those stinky diapers
Baby bath tub, there is such a sweet smell of a freshly bathed baby  
No tears baby soap
Washcloths
Baby bath towels hooded or non-hooded
Sleepers with buttons and snaps, they are so much easier to put on
Swaddle or baby blankets, wrapped snug arms from wiggling free
Nail clippers, he loves scratching the back of my arms and face
Baby brush
Baby comb
Thermometer
Baby clothes, they'll grow out of it so fast
Socks 
Shoes 
Bottles 
Formula or milk for hungry 
Bottle brush
Baby teething ring to relieve sore gums 
Baby binkis it tends to calm them when they are not feeding
Baby dishes
Baby spoon
Variety of baby food and cereal
Juices 
Highchair 
Bibs
A rocking chair to rock and kiss them good night.
Bassinet or Crib 
Crib sheets 
Toys, age appropriate for learning
Baby walker, fantastic to keep them busy for a little while 
Stroller, a must when you walk or shop
Baby proof your whole house, once they start crawling, they are into everything
Camera, time goes so fast you'll want to remember it all. 

7/29/2019

A dream worth living for
Born in the image of an unspoiled soul
Newborn stretches it's small limbs 
Hungers, cries, crawls, and walks 
A new peaceful dawn, a new world unfurled


5/14/2019



Poetry Contest: Writing Challenge 3, July 2019 - List 
Sponsored by: Dear Heart
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: List

Premium Member Storm Drain Disappearance

I know I should not whine or frivolously fret, 
but I believe I have lost my pet marmoset.
I have also lost a blue barrette, a red tea set, 
and a beautifully carved purple aigrette.
They all went down in the drain, 
putting me in a particularly uncomfortable cold sweat.
I did not mind losing Jeanette, 
a snake who was never an exceptionally kind or loving pet,

I am sad about losing my baby’s bassinet 
and a tiny edge of my bathroom’s finest moquette.
They both fell down the storm drain, 
when I paused to look at my rapidly disappearing tea set
Way down deep in the bowels of the sewer, 
and I am especially sad to lose my pet marmoset.
Here comes another person. 
She has lost a briquette, diskette, 
and a sliver of yellow georgette.

Written 2-28-2019
Contest: Down a Storm Drain Gone Forever
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lie Down On Me

I wait for you in the moonlight
In the quiet of the night
Within this room that holds
So many moments of your life

The dreams you've dreamed
Still linger here 
Between these flower-papered walls
That look beyond the window
At the Autumn leaves that fall

A quilted robe lies draped across
A wicker rocking chair
That held you and rocked you
When grief
Was more than you could bear

A bassinet now empty
Where once a baby slept
Remains enshrined
Chained to a time
By the million tears you wept

A picture of a handsome man
With you there by his side
A bride and groom so in love
With stardust in their eyes

Stands behind a pane of glass
Within a gilded frame
Where your lip prints and
finger prints 
On its surface..still remain

And now...
I hear your slippers
As they slide across the floor
And I hear...
Your laboured breathing
Outside this bedroom door

And  I know that soon
I'll hold you
Here in this flower-papered room
And soothe your old 
And frail body
In the light of a silver moon 

I...your old companion
An antique Rosewood Bed
Let me hold you...Mary Beth 
I..the best friend you've ever had

Let me hold you through the night
And bring you back...again
Sweet Mary Beth
Into the morning light.

Premium Member The Family Circle

They shared a smile that will last forever,
as she gazed at him while he gazed back,
from within his little blue woven bassinet.

She reflects that he has his father's eyes,
and his nose as well, how it rounds by its
tip...charming, she thought in admiration.

The shape of his face is noticeably sturdy,
and bold, yet the shade of his skin, is fair
like her own--later on, it'll become bolder.

"I must show and tell your father, as soon
as he gets home from work and I think he
may know...so seeing that I care, I search

tirelessly our family trees, and your father
and I, are blessed having a son like thee."


Premium Member Bassinets and Caskets

We’re joyful of the bassinet,
And fearful of the casket.
One, a place where life is new,
The other where the body’s through.
Bassinets, though temporary
Start a life’s eternal tarry.

Bassinets reveal new birth,
And caskets case a family’s mirth.
In bassinets, lie new creations,
While caskets are a demarcation:
A point in time when death imparts
Eternity as flesh departs.

In silence, contemplate the casket
Then voice the question if you’ll ask it:
We all have had our bassinets,
But who is ready for the casket?
Our time on earth is fleeting, feign;
For after death, forever reigns.

Bassinets begin life’s option:
To follow God and His adoption.
Set not your heart on passing pleasures,
But seek the Lord’s eternal treasures.
So when a casket lays you down,
You’ll rise again, forever crowned.

 

Psalm 49:15 “But God will redeem my life from the grave; 
he will surely take me to himself.  Selah  NIV
© Tom Valles  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Dealey Plaza, are you keeping right on the still unresolved Elm street?


I had a cat, a large one
I thought I loved the cat
The cat thought he loved me too!

Then, one day,
They took the cat away
The cat, with the bassinet, the little furry presence
And Sameeha’s science club chapstick
And I thought I was kissing scientific a book cover
Where he is artistic in a beauty in the other way, rare.

It was a cat. After all, it was just a cat
It had the nicest jacket , 
with hoodies on, 
the cat used to sit on time, 
the cat
And it had the fish, tummy time, happy face, and everything first time
For I never yearn to come back! For there, to chime!

It is just a known type of pain that I knew for far too long! 

On a question paper, pm time, departmental too

Dealey Plaza, are you keeping right on the still unresolved Elm street?
Heavenly God , do you play around heavenly to utter Godsay, is your slip
Where you do not know usually after or before the strait the gate
You never knew Jack Ruby and you never knew Oswald

So you never knew other than too much other than, Please, other tall!

Nine minutes

The baby laying in the bassinet, her twin brother nine minutes apart, a painful statement would follow her all of her life..baptized at birth, was that a curse.

We’re brought home, my brother is held close to his mother’s chest, new born baby smell is so calming, meanwhile the baby girl is still in the basinet, no knowledge of her birth did 
 the mom know..

The babies are now crawling,  soon they will start walking, talking too bad only the son existence matters to this world…


Years go by, still nothing has changed, nine minutes not knowing of me being conceived will always be echoed by her family.


Here we are as adults, my family has gone separate ways, our mother is no longer here, she’s with the Creator, my existence on this earth as a mom herself, who fully knows her children were each conceived out of love, with a man whom saved her life, when she was an adult crawled into a fetal position protecting herself from her siblings who only inflected pain in words, abuse, and not of love.   I was that baby who was born nine minutes too late..

As one dear friend said to me, “they saved the best for last”.

Approach



                   Approach of Wind, it chills 
in a particular way. 
Unexplainable, how it carries in competing tandem, 
of unknown elements brought into the arena, bare. 

Doctor's bag opened of winds, 
surgical biopsy underway, 
in new mandated trailways.

Membraned channels of envelope streams 
holds aloft vapors of vial serums, 
like a bassinet with black wings. 

Intheorium sends it's postage. 
It soothes the Cesarean Earth in her pangs, 
for mankind's evil is great. How can it stand to be. 

So he sends them a strong delusion 
so that they may believe a lie.

Armies shall pillage the Family and 
upend the carts in the Marketplace.

Souls shall be scattered to the four winds, looking desperately for a compass
that can find the head.

Delivery, once slow, has increased exponentially. 

Magma rivers will haunt the landsape like lions, 
Nemian.
Great forges looking for gold to smelt into idols of Pompeii.
For he shall stand in his Pomp in the Temple, 
then sit, as if he is God.

Premium Member Move Mountains for Her

The sunlight streams through the windowpane
Casting a rainbow around my newborn
In her bassinet as she sleeps. 
Brightening my world with flickering magic.
Her silky blonde curls glisten with the spiritual light.
Her soft cuddlable skin, her sweet powder sent,
And a smile to melt anybody’s heart,
She’s a flower of radiance and perfection.
 

Oh, my heart warms as I hold her hand, so tiny
In mine, and in my world. I marvel and sigh,
How beautiful a gift I’ve been blessed. 
My tipsy mind dances on beams of lights 
And shadows of songs and merry, dancing
Upon specks of dust across the floor.
Ebullient memories will be made giving her
The courage and strength to move mountains.
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.

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