Short Maternity Poems

Landing sites
For fish fished
From womb lakes...

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A
mother's
love cements
all family 
life.

An Ekphrasis after Maternity by Charles Maurin...

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The corrupt
Blesser hates you girl
Your friends are dead
There is no virgin in
The maternity ward...

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embroidered daisies
hip hugger bell bottoms
1970

Nehru jacket
yellow happy faces
1971

maternity tops
and a quickie wedding
those dhrammed bell bottoms...

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She went to maternity,
and came back without stomach
at the door way she shouted;
“Oh, where is my stomach?
I think I left it at the counter,
with that fat midwife.”...

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A
mother
and her child-
a love giving
quest

Maternity -Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

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Circumstance comes with chalk
Scribbles message so glorious
On each baby’s back
In the maternity ward
The homeless shadow pens;
‘Born to be unborn
That this world
May have space’...

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What if Robots become a serious threat
They could think, make decisions, perhaps have sex
The last one was squirrely
Could lead to maternity
They might look like a shiny new Corvette...

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Phosphorus scent
across the maternity ward in
the tremor of morning's vapor;
Grey on white --
a shade which makes
the sound of explosion
new brush on history's canvas,
a hot exhaustion of lungs to the brim
and spent cycles of discontented sighs....

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So she drowned in an empty, hollow pool
with happy, broken turquoise dolphins -
Falling tile and memories
of long lost giggled echoes  
bubbles burst fading times
evaporating
maternity
no one knows
but her
heart...

Reversed Etherre 

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labour in obscurity
for modern maturity
stashing more security
for unknown futurity

of planned paternity
some clothes for maternity
stay in indemnity
for here to eternity

live not in enmity
foresee the calamity
there is no deformity
in displaying conformity...

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Another day, another lie
  'We don't target civilians'
Bomb blast strikes maternity hospital
  Another day, many more die

Another day, another lie
  'Ukraine must be de-Nazified'
Three failed attempts on the Jewish President's life
  Chemical weapons in hand for the next try...

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Should Have Seen the Scholar

You should have seen the bright scholar;
In first class each did learn how to holler;
Raise  their hand;
Answers demand;
Also, how to play pinocchle in the parler.

Sorority, Fraternity, Maternity, Paternity
and Viscosity

Write a poem using those words.

Jim Horn...

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I could not wait to stop wearing maternity clothes.
I had been pregnant for 9 months I 1971
and then for another 9 months in 1973.
You can hardly imagine how irritating it was
to see the newest fashions for women in 1974
looked like maternity tops!
That is all they sold in the stores.
The exact kind of smock I had been stuck in
for eighteen months!...

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“Dam Change”
Dam change.
Mother and father love their plain ponytails and Lionel trains.
Then infancy crawls to scrap knees, tea parties. And headphone blast fast tones accompanied, by the arrogances of “me”.
Old Lionel trains sleep and ponytails worn plain train to feed or seek maternity.
Then mother and father love their plain ponytails and Lionel trains.
How I hate change....

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Raveling bare knees
with gnarled hands.

Why you did not want to wear the clothes
in human chain ?

Seeking the refuge redundantly under
the wings of frugal maternity,

in trance ? The strangeness never dies.

The words were hollow, the shrines 
empty. Who will go after the breast bone ?

Was it a derogratory remark to ask for the
name of a lame duck who was going
to commit a friendly suicide ?


Satish Verma...

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the existence of known solubles
be they spiritual, molecular or imaginary
derivations, vain or divine

Protest
Implode
Disappear
Relinquish
Begrudge
Refuse
Rebel
Resist
Rebuke
Ignore
Mock
By chance, plot or plan

take maternity shops for example
pay phones
bill of rights?
alarm clocks
constitution?
looking up from our handheld
electronic god to greet passersbys

purge our souls


03/08/13
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Movements


Timeless time making magical mysteries
Composing chime thru hibernating histories
Symphonic synchronicity of the spheres
Memorable simplicity of youthful years

Everyday movements caught within eternity
Graceful confluence of majestic maternity
Monumental moving now made divine
Forever proving that we entwine.




Nov.06.2017
8-Line Poem 1-5 words per line
Sponsored by: Rick Parise ...

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SOMEWHERE IN SPRINGTIME

somewhere a stirring
life’s imperceptible need…
                                         of awakening


somewhere a silence
nature’s maternity ward…
                                       waiting to exhale


somewhere a solace
of warm eggs in maple trees…
                                       a worm’s holiday


somewhere a shiver
winged shadows on a meadow…
			 a silent stirring


John G. Lawless
©4/16/2022...

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