Midwives Poems - Poems about Midwives

...peer into the past through lens of telescope’s glass countless questions asked too huge to survive fusion no longer alive the mammoth star dies massive implosion brings heavenly commotion ......Read More

... Eve, the mother of all mankind, Adam found his helpmeet in her. Old Sarah, through faith, was confined. Rebecca, the first twins’ mother. Shiphrah and <>...Read More

...They say it all ends well, but I’ve never danced to the tune of midwives. I do not share in the religion of living life in blind sight. Praise to the poets, the singers, the artists, the ......Read More

..."She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." What shall we make of Genesis 2: 23b As it is written, it seems preposterous to me. Time has proven quite the opposi......Read More

...The not-true that may from lips spring And in nearby and far-off ears ring; Usually saving an innocent skin, Scarcely for this reason a sin; With usable sounds and alphabets The trapped setting......Read More

...Way down south at the edge of the swamp, Was a little town known as Backwater. A peaceful town that most folks found, Was a good place to raise sons and daughters. A plague hit the town and peo......Read More

...A midwife harassing a woman in labour Spread your legs now And to further instruction bow Or I shall phone your man And tell him every rubbish I can. Your two knees facing the ceiling Or ......Read More

...Spread your legs now And to further instruction bow Or I shall phone your man And tell him every rubbish I can. Your two knees facing the ceiling Or with stricter midwives be dealing Armed ......Read More

..."She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." What shall we make of Genesis 2: 23b As it is written, it seems preposterous to me. Time has proven quite the opposite is true ......Read More

...Whenever I look into a mirror I see you: Dad and Mum. I savour the pangs of the damage you’ve done. I become drunk with hate. I break the mirror, hoping to break your faces. But then I see more ......Read More

...My esteemed Rinpoche repeatedly impresses upon me Our humane democratic vocation to become an enlightened individual. Which sounds like a polyculturing lot, for absorbent co-acclimating resi......Read More

...Hiroshima Poems 2 I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. -Michael R. Burch, "Epitaph for a Child of Hiroshima" The intense heat and light ......Read More

...Hiroshima Poems I Let Us Be Midwives! by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Midnight... the basement of a shattered building... atomic b......Read More

... And so the pagans burned by Mathew Hopkins command the witch finder general put to the stake the midwives along with everything they had learned See her tree huger in modern parlance if......Read More

... Abuse not midwives, When your wife is only 20, Despise not the feeding hand, That once made you full, Break not the shoulder, That you once leant on, Heart break not a heart, That loved you ......Read More