Long Postpartum Poems
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More Resilient Dancing Days
Shared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more
Lovers
may also become felt
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our way
through emotionally deserted
dessert
Curiously lingering faith
in progressive integrity
of bilateral co-passions
and possibly multilateral
spiritual inside...
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Categories:
postpartum, extended metaphor, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Blues Boating Home
Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy
Through co-empathic singing passions
which may,
too often,
feel stressful
Irritating
depressing
stormy
before unconditional win/win regard
for Self AND Other
reconnect,
Like EgoTheistic re-ligion
and EcoMatrimonial
indigenously multicultural
ecowomanist wisdom
Of Ego/EarthTribe mutual MeWe...
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Categories:
postpartum, culture, earth, health, integrity, love hurts, mentor,
Form:
Political Verse
Maternity Ward Blues
The woman was older, had black hair, angry brown eyes, and wore a perpetual frown on her face. Chel had heard the nurse on the floor refer to her as Nan. They had had...
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Categories:
postpartum, baby, hope,
Form:
Narrative
A Genuine Cause
Like every divorced couple, we were transitioning into a platonic relationship as friends full of understanding. My former husband seems entirely decided to give life a fresh try. He is thinking of another girl. He...
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Categories:
postpartum, baby,
Form:
Prose
Sweetest Breakup
Caught a Flight out of town
Hadn’t seen you in while
Wondered if you’d still look the same
Still want me to be ya number one dame
At one time you offered me your last name
Then in a...
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Categories:
postpartum, black african american, love, me, me, rose,
Form:
Blank verse
Backwards Spells of FEAR Part I
so easy to fall, and so hard to break free
somehow as a child I knew
it was as if they knew my name before I had a clue
at 10 reading books about orphans
free from the...
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Categories:
postpartum, abuse, addiction, child, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Postpartum Depression
Just a month ago I had a new baby brother. I play
with him a lot, but I'm really concerned about my
mother.
She really gets upset when she can't calm baby
from his cries. She tells me she's...
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Categories:
postpartum, childhood, depression, familybaby, me, baby, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Bright Beauty
If a maturely individuated ego...
Honey, you just left out most of us.
Could you work on being more inclusive?
is organically
holistically SelfAware,
co-redefining as
Not some Other conscious egocentered person,
Some Other living sensate creature
composed of interdependent
organic health-maintenance...
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Categories:
postpartum, birth, earth, health, light, passion, power, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Revoltee Protestation Amnesia
America was born in protest violence,
but Lady Liberty now has
postpartum memento —
A colonial, hypocritical condition called:
Revoltee Protestation Amnesia
Wavy umbilical vanished memories,
of destructive actions ~ Terrible justification deeds
needed to break the...
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Categories:
postpartum, america, history, philosophy, political, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Forty-Five Minutes and I'M Way Ahead of You This Time.
Thirty minutes later. Two a.m. and I'm still here, I haven't forgotten......
Thirty minutes, tears are racing, creating clock hands that point to the edge of my chin,
trembling, my bones point only to the end and...
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Categories:
postpartum, love, timetime,
Form:
Free verse
Cosmological Fantastical Imemorial Lil Opus
aswirl within tremendous maelstroms
universal united uninhabitable cauldron
tempered with analogous:
outrageous, portentous
thunderous cacophony in tandem
with thick mucilaginous fog
metaphorically postpartum
nebulous placenta afterbirth
and/or proto planets aborted
per primordial material
slowly (millions of years) coalescence
annealed bubbling primeval soup
engendering (extant
via immeasurably immense stretches...
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Categories:
postpartum, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Epic
MAXWELL STREET POET JEWTOWN
MAXWELL STREET BLUES BEGAN PLAYING ACROSS THE SOUTH WATER MARKET FUNNY GROWING UP IN THE VILLAGE WE ACTUALLY MOVED INTO THE BUILDING 1968 CHRISTMAS FROM THE WEST SIDE THERE WE WERE LOOKING FROM THE TEN...
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Categories:
postpartum, allah,
Form:
Naat
Beyond Grief's Rusty Gate
so harrowing, life journey from radiant light to pitch-darkness - quote by poet.
a (groaning) dread
nobody deserves
to muddle through,...
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Categories:
postpartum, birth, confusion, death, grief, mental illness, pain,
Form:
Narrative
Alphabet Constructs 3 2 1
Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees
Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities
Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios
Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires
Echo endophfins eulogize bullet brain excrement
Fecal folly fantasies reveal relevant frivolities
Gonadal grownups gulp secret...
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Categories:
postpartum, analogy, beautiful, body, corruption, courage, culture, fantasy,
Form:
ABC
My Beautiful Universe
a biafra child
who didn't eat
air filled stomach
echoed drums we beat
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
a phase we repeat
a soldier's limb
has returned from war
tears from loved ones
who expected more
WE WANT PEACE!
hangs on every door
postpartum depression
is the new excuse
to kill...
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Categories:
postpartum, life, people, sad, drug, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Olympiad 1-4-79
As the Dime Store sirens flared
bolts of irradiated invite,
my query was denied.
Their pimp-striped pilots only moaned,
their lust fueled by encapsulated
...
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Categories:
postpartum, dream, fantasy, imagery, nonsense, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Don'T Be Upset, Mommy
Mommy, don't be upset
When they say how you should stand, sit and eat
While I munch on your blood and meat.
Just don't be upset
When they advise you on when I should be fed.
You alone know...
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Categories:
postpartum, birth, judgement, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
The Chicken Crossed the Road Or Did It
The Chicken Crossed the Road or Did It
For centuries mankind has explored the reason why
The chicken crossed the road
They could not be satisfied, oh no
With the question that came first; what came first?
The chicken or...
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Categories:
postpartum, adventure, confusion, education, food, nonsense, philosophy, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
The Working Mom
I would move mountains for all the working mothers:
To untangle our communities and have someone see their true colors.
To stop mothers from carrying the brunt of communal dysfunction,
To guide a little cultural deconstruction,
To redirect...
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Categories:
postpartum, appreciation, career, mom, wisdom, woman, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Prologue To a Next Life
He would never forget the raindrops knocking on his coffin,
painfully screaming in a postpartum (from life) depression,
nor would he forget the stiffness of his entire body
banging on the wood as the carriage was...
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Categories:
postpartum, life, loss
Form:
Narrative
I Have No Time
I have no time Melinda argues
You need to take time for you, we tell her.
I am way to busy! She shrieks.
She is on her own last nerve.
We see it.
One aunt says she will watch the...
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Categories:
postpartum, women,
Form:
Free verse
My Mother's Child
You can never be ready, she said
I wasn't what you expected.
Listen,
No one told me "postpartum depression"
Until I saw you in the kitchen
With my baby sister at your feet,
White hot tears,
A savage grief,
Out of nowhere.
I was...
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Categories:
postpartum, absence, children, depression, identity, inspirational love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
the real heroes
Everyone loves a new mother.
We give her pampering gifts.
Send her carnations and roses.
Promise her candles, warm baths, chocolates.
Tromp into the hospital bearing onesies with cute sayings.
Pretending the smell of urine is palatable.
Pretending to not hear...
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Categories:
postpartum, hero,
Form:
Prose Poetry