Suckled Poems - Poems about Suckled

marionette of grief

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They birthed me in a house of screams, Where shadows stitched my fevered dreams— No lullaby, no gentle womb, Just rusted chains and cradle's tomb.
A mother’s voice? A serpent's hiss. A father's to...

Behold! God has a Sense of Humor!

...
“Ah! Ah!” cried Mr. Shaw, a museum man of science in 1799,
as he carefully unwrapped a specimen from New South Wales.
It was Labeled: "It's a weird one; Caught in a creek; Dug from a burrow with ...

Blossomed With Desire

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In the early days of Summer
I still lingered on the vine
not yet ripe enough for picking
not ready to be sipped as fine wine

Soon, I blossomed with desire
It raged deep down inside of me 
b...

Callimachus English Translations II

...Callimachus English translations

For Gail White

To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch

Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelou...

Internal Cold War

...I'm torn across axis yet to exist,
Or had once been, since been replaced,
By a sense of self and lack thereof,
When we, by they encased.

Cleavage adorned in modest terms,
Abreast as if more th...

Backspace

...I already understand that children  
grow inside two blinks,
as quickly as the novel Mayfly
comes to the surface to die. 

I'm pining for those first days again, 
of edentate smiles, milestones...

The Old Nurse's Lament

...Farewell, dear child, with whom I shared my joys,
Who suckled at my breasts as didst my own.
May thou find in the world where thou now art
All that thy heart desired while still alive,
But this o...

Crossroads

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Here I stand
Amidst the Crossroads of Life
Abandoned, Worldly Pleasures behind me, Forsaken Crimson Wasteland

Here I Am
Pouring Libations to the Oracle of Truth
Selfish Desires Beyond Me, ...

Sugar Maple Home

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To be left bare to all rhyme and most reason
From gnarled wounds of sweet nectar eaten
A Mother whom suckled life, now weakened
Still they come in glee, lapping there the given

In her bloomed...

MY FIRST BORN

...So, I can also be a father was the song my anxiety sang in that labour room,
For the past nine months I had watched him grow in his mother's womb,
Now, I was called in to hear his first earthly cry...

What Love begets

...The mother loved him before she met him. 
On days when her love posed a threat 
She gambled with her health 
And cradled him against her breast,  
And clenched her teeth  
to preserve the gift h...

the painting

...The Painting


When she left, it was late in the evening
on the snow-covered path to the street
her footprints were not visible 
On the road,  there were too many
footprints to recognize if an...

On a Bed of Roses

...On a bed of roses
Honey-suckled scent.

Love is in the air, when I'm with you I have no cares.

Relaxed and transfixed
A beautiful sunset.

Our souls connect
On a bed of roses, I lie here wi...

The Sunflower

...Paradise garden, green and lush.  Berries a sharp red growing on a bush.
Translucent petals fall like the autumn leaves, golden with a dash of hazel.
Immense beauty beyond belief.

A flitted ray ...

Thru a Paroxysm of Tears

...Thru a paroxysm of tears...

I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe sundered fatherhood
yesterday, today and tomorrow.

A series of unfortunat...

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