Water Mum Poems

Four months pregnant
show them the belly.
Real not plastic,

Ultrasound glares pierce
a lack of eye contact

stuck at the Papa John's
on Fountainbridge. Eleven PM.

Drunken men to be avoided.

A...

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We all went down to the beach today; it was hot as hot can be.  
The carpark was full, Dad got cross and my...

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Those who understand me without saying everything,
The one who gets scared before me in every trouble...!

Even if I don't have it, still it is with...

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Sunset 

We held hands for a while
There were no goodbyes 
But I linger on thoughts
Of your twinkling eyes 

Many a sky 
And many a vista
Have...

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Mum you don't show me any belief, 
pushing the unknown out of my reach, 
pulls my confidence deep down beneath,
cause my ambition and dreams to...

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Butterfly, My Love

You have hair like golden silk. 
You laugh like clear water running over stones. 
Your eyes, they are the color of the sky,...

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Drop by drop
I drip away
Into the mold
In your arms...
To become that
Man you dream to be.
The Potter in you
Have broken me...

I melt into
A boundless sea
You will...

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At 24:00  O’ Clock  of the stars,
When the tides are clapping to 
The pressure of her contractions.
Louder is the agony of her painful...

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Mum, 
you are beautiful as the crystal moon,
pure as taste of water,
radiant as candle light,
your voice, a sound in the guzzling wind.
Your love endless. and...

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Upon the riverbank, of humanity fallen 
Laughter, coffee cups and tears, 
Sparkling eyes, that see all as nothing 
Mighty clouds, there gently parting, 
Silent sunlight,...

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Oh, my brother..
I can see storms causing havoc in your eyes.
All you can do is stare,
seeking comfort from a tombstone.

Beautiful marble cannot reach out to...

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Blinking my eyes, not wanting the light,
missing the familiar warmth and darkness
loud wail ; half angry, half astonished
My voice?	
Careful hold, familiar yet strange
a croon that...

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Mum, sorry I was not able to make it for your funeral in time.
We are continents apart and circumstances could not permit me to bid...

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We’re gathered listening from the porch, crickets chirp across the meadow,
and frogs emit their deepest croak, over where the water lilies grow,
we glimpse at the...

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Those far off days from way back when
   My age was five, or maybe ten.
   No matter what, i was carefree.
...

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