Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
05 Mar 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: 100 year old, baby, carry on, children without TV, diapers, kiss little piggies, leg holes, lullabies, point their toes, salt of the earth, wikiloops
Salt of the earth to a baby: diapers.
Salt of the earth to a 100 year old: diapers.
You don’t have to take their _____!
Point their toes into the leg holes;
Kiss those 10 little piggies
and carry on with the lullabies.
I started with salt; Added “piggies”; David added “stinky”; and Paul Trapp used “stinky piggies”. Oh the indignity of us all!
29 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Family Tags: ancestors, baskets, baths, blankets, breasts, cover, dream, ears, feet, fruit, juices, loins, lullabies, matriarchal, nurture, riddle, sleep, umbilical
Dreams, it has been said, were the first poems and stories told around the fire in ancient tribal cultures. Jan Hutchinson
We gather, holding baskets
filled with fruit;
seeds and juices
of our loins.
Breasts ready to succor,
feet to serve,
ears to learn
what nurture needs.
Umbilical still grows,
Twists its lullabies;
In and out of sleep
and baths and blankets’ cover.
15 Apr 2012 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: lullabies, poems, soothed, spitfires, warriors
Open Mike
at Roe Jan
The men marched up
To click and quip.
Intelligent gents
Word warriors.
At attention!
Firing rounds!!
Spitfires!
The women
Swayed
And rocked their newborn
Poems;
Twirled their lullabies
“Til comfort clothed us all.
And blessed, we bowed our heads.
All rights.
4/15/2012
Jeanne Poland
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