Umbilicus Poems - Poems about Umbilicus

...Often times I wonder if I may have missed a greater calling or purpose in my life. As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical when it came to asking the most important questions: “Why am I ......Read the rest...

...you are above so you descend to the water on stiff legs scrabbling down the scree the tarn looks like mercury spilled into the umbilicus of the mountain when approached you see the mirror......Read the rest...

...Arid, bony-shanked carapace. Shiny, weathered patina tells of desolation, Belies any promise of richness; Yet when inverted, Becoming regal. A tatty, crown implies The ancient purport. T......Read the rest...

...Ubiquitous, they’re everywhere you look Ridiculous, each page of every book Umbilicus, they bind us like a tether Precipitous, in haste, like nasty weather Iniquitous, they’re tossed about in cur......Read the rest...

...Seconds to go. I am locked away, set aside. Throat opens, body twists. Face distorts, voice roughens. The tangle man wakes up. He is twelve, seventy, eighty. Sick and lame. Trembling and ti......Read the rest...

...Life giving womb, silent and sacred mystical, blood red, embryo connected cords from umbilicus, abstract limbo unborn life, undiscovered, now growing. Stanza from “Lexi’s Preconceive......Read the rest...

...Each of us is an infant seized In the moment of labor spent. We each are Samson, stained, restrained, Chained between the pillars that confine us. The womb of the mother god, Wisdom, She holding......Read the rest...

...The sizzle, the hum a sparkle then done torched and tormented love starts to run Cut cords  — umbilicus lies unintended never truly mended Scars grieve still ~ bloodied he......Read the rest...

... insanity clapping just look at it flapping ears elephant wingd wingding with out ing bam bam bam bambooing beams brilliantly bashing blue berrys burning cruise connecting coope......Read the rest...

...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts. Part 3 Dr. D. confers in panic with Rex and boys at the Limbo Sa......Read the rest...

...I There are two ways of being in this world, the eagle and the serpent, sometimes called: while one seeks boundless heaven, wings unfurled, the other through low dirt has always crawled, and see......Read the rest...

...rain reversed not an inch rivers overflowing oceans pregnant reverence no more repercussions roots losing their umbilicus repercussions of acts committed wrongly rightly who knows what is good ......Read the rest...

...a brown and curling maple leave hangs suspended mid-air in the clearing by the lake, transfixed by the view and kindness woven within the web it watches the rain fall within the transparent lac......Read the rest...

...Life giving womb, silent and sacred mystical, blood red embryo connected cords from umbilicus, abstract limbo unborn life, undiscovered, now growing. Enclosed in the confines of limited space ......Read the rest...

...A simple scene a nestling seeks the comfort of the night to lay enthralled, engrossed, in memories of past days, the nectar drawn from rivulets that run past blackened lash. A lidded eye roves ......Read the rest...