Long Breastfeeding Poems

I was on my ambivalent fence
about who to watch watch the solar eclipse,
my alcoholic allies
or the designer THC corporate investors.

Wherever it was,
we read excerpts from two permaculture designers,
to get our minds ready for this great...

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The seven were "all healthy and 
Well cared for" Dr. Maxim 
Stated. She was a little 
Concerned about Adian. He
Only gained one pound since
His birth. Molly said, "I'm 
Worried he's not getting enough 
Milk. I'm...

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The word "Galaxy", is derived from the Greek "galaxias", literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy. Galaxies contain varying amounts of star systems, star clusters and types of interstellar clouds. (Nebula is Latin...

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There was once a widow who had nothing but her beloved twin babies, Rosemary, and Ethan. The Widow loved her twins more than the Earth loved the Sun, and vowed to give them anything they...

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“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And leans back and sighs 
As he gorges
On creamy chocolate ecstasy

Later,...

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“It’s all in a day’s work
 Tryin’ hard to defend
 The time that I spend alone.”
     ~ Chaka Khan, “What ‘Cha Gonna Do For Me” from the album  UNSUPPORTED CODE...

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The word makes sense to those who see sense 
senseless to those who senseless so see it
so in the beginning there was the word and with the word was God and God was the word
With...

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“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And leans back and sighs 
As he gorges
On creamy chocolate ecstasy

Later,...

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I am not apologizing for my sexual orientation
For loving what I want and not what society has dictated to me 
I am not apologizing for my white skin
If you think it is privilege then walk...

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The minstrel and the rubbish
	To a homeless in N.Y., who had a guitar to keep him company
                  ...

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when I didn’t say it
                              ...

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It was great for a time
Sex and wine
Wine and sex
Then commitment and open and shut curtains.
Special delivery of child made the bond complete
Six months down the line
Breastfeeding was action watched from a distance
Intimacy was a...

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O! Sickened soul, rejoice for forgiveness has come,
Eleven months of sin and dine, sawm to you has come,
O! Soul of mine, do not despair and go astray,
Do not follow your whims and desires and ways,
Do...

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stepping bass
------ chords progressing -------  like birds, call, and response
syncopation

melisma

flattened 'blue' notes breastfeeding the air
microtonal  pitches between  semitones*


Oliver has olive eyes,

Oliver is short  & strong like a young bull,
in his hair,...

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"Trauma In my Mother's House"

Some mornings came whispering in my mother's ears the torment of being a lady;
It explained to her how by the kitchen knife 
she was meant to breathe only from a man’s...

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I knew I loved you before I knew you were to be born, I made life long promises to you before I knew you were to be born. I just couldn’t imagine just how much...

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Whiskers That Free

Inspired by the painting Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son by Jusepe de Ribera, 1631.

The painting shows a bearded lady with her husband, breastfeeding an infant.

Viewing the painting will (perhaps) make sense...

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black mama
A nurturer
God fearing
 black mama 
For what is worth
Darkest dirt
Mother Herb, Mother Earth
Black mama
Big lips for brave free speech 
Big hips to carry her child
Authoritative Dussciplinarian
Black mama
Destin to birth children
With her God and just...

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LOVE

There is a question and thought
Running in my thinking lane
It's a thought from Maggie
I know love is real it's not magic

What can you say about Bonny and Clyde
Two thieves bound in a thing called love
Will...

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I persist in crediting....
That breastfeeding hatred and animosity
Could barely occasion war atrocity
Demolish houses and blameless lives reap
Petrify crestfallen minds and infants' poignant grief

That airplanes,tanks and other war toys
Could ravage,destroy and only thieve joys
Annihilate life and...

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That rule was begging to be broken
Y’know the one about women?
Of conformity for cat calls and 
Gift wrapped shoulders and legs?
How about “no” to breastfeeding 
How about “whore” for “too revealing”?
I’m sick of these notions,...

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Breastfeeding Perils

I watched you take your first breath
And open your sleepy eyes
Your trembling lip and clinched little fist
Never a mother could resist

From head to toes with your thick white coating
Soon rubbed clean and a warm...

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in the woods getting lost is a bliss,tall trees like mothers welcome me in their scoops, giving off comfort in my waning sense of insecurity,shrubs give tiny berries cool like candy under the blazing sun,to...

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Idea of celebration of 
Mothers Day is mean

Replace days by moments 
Mothers love pervades all moments

Conceiving to nursing foetus in Womb 
Nine months, toughest Mother's moments

Breastfeeding to patting baby to sleep 
Kissing to pinching cheeks,...

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My heart beats in my ear
I hear my happiness I hear my fear
This steady sound is like a drum
And is beating now so I hum

To the beat of my brain
Seems music is no strain
Did I...

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