Postpartum Poems - Poems about Postpartum

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 T...

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, 
       day after day; 
the loss of ...

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 ...

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 church
the dignity of...

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.
P...

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...

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 ...

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 wh...

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 two-year-old ...

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
...

Rollback Paradise

...Enjoying
thinking about switching
computer keep attention
to the sink for postpartum
poltergeist style
8:00 surcharge forum...

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 
     stench carried only by ...

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 a...

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 consc...

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...

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