Nizana
Lauryn
Lauryn
Poem Published
8th Apr 2023 3:39pm
8th Apr 2023 3:39pm
Missing Persons Report
Two weeks ago, I reported my mother as missing after three days without returned texts. No word at all.
The not knowing is torture. My only certainty? Something bad happened.
In a recuring dream, I’m a child. I’m looking at a flower on a hillside and mother is behind me. Then I realize she’s not there and look up to see her disappearing over a nearby hill. I run to catch her, but she’s gone.
Last night I rose over my lover. In his eyes I saw mother pause at the edge of that hill and look back. She smiled.
The not knowing is torture. My only certainty? Something bad happened.
In a recuring dream, I’m a child. I’m looking at a flower on a hillside and mother is behind me. Then I realize she’s not there and look up to see her disappearing over a nearby hill. I run to catch her, but she’s gone.
Last night I rose over my lover. In his eyes I saw mother pause at the edge of that hill and look back. She smiled.
#love
#motherhood
#death
315 reads
7 Comments
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
22nd Mar 2023 1:23am
22nd Mar 2023 1:23am
11/17/22
In a matriarchal society
That makes me worthless
You said
Except you are the opposite
Accept you are the opposite
That makes me worthless
You said
Except you are the opposite
Accept you are the opposite
#motherhood
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atmos_productions
Atmos
Atmos
Poem Published
20th Mar 2023 1:46pm
20th Mar 2023 1:46pm
Life
A new conception
Two mammals form a pair bond
The basis for monogamy
Friction against a membrane
Producing a sensation
Stimulation leading to a release
Contractions propel cells into tubes
Searching for fusion before they die
An ovum is penetrated
And fertilisation begins
Developing over a period of months
A heart begins to beat
Vibrations of sound can be heard
Footprints and fingerprints form
Eyes can open and close
A water breaking
Signals the start of labour
A dilation reveals...
Two mammals form a pair bond
The basis for monogamy
Friction against a membrane
Producing a sensation
Stimulation leading to a release
Contractions propel cells into tubes
Searching for fusion before they die
An ovum is penetrated
And fertilisation begins
Developing over a period of months
A heart begins to beat
Vibrations of sound can be heard
Footprints and fingerprints form
Eyes can open and close
A water breaking
Signals the start of labour
A dilation reveals...
#birth
#motherhood
#animals
#fatherhood
#pregnancy
221 reads
0 Comments
Kasai
Poem Published
8th Mar 2023 7:36am
8th Mar 2023 7:36am
25yrs to life
forgotten memories
can't be written
they hide behind blank pages
& battle weary mornings
I toss them carelessly
into a dusty corner
to grow repressive cobwebs
over graymatter prison cells
you don't get to choose
what or who you remember
they're all condemned
guilty by association
out of body, out of mind
my children's milestones
left behind...
& those were mine
those were mine
can't be written
they hide behind blank pages
& battle weary mornings
I toss them carelessly
into a dusty corner
to grow repressive cobwebs
over graymatter prison cells
you don't get to choose
what or who you remember
they're all condemned
guilty by association
out of body, out of mind
my children's milestones
left behind...
& those were mine
those were mine
#motherhood
#abuse
#PTSD
#healing
#DomesticViolence
615 reads
19 Comments
Nizana
Lauryn
Lauryn
Poem Published
2nd Mar 2023 12:14pm
2nd Mar 2023 12:14pm
Fearful Notes: Mother & Daughter
Dear Daughter,
Thank you for loving me through my time of treatment. With so much beauty in the world to love, how has a chemical become my destructive obsession? I’ll never understand but know now that I’ll never truly be free of it. It might be a week, month or a year, but I'm certain to fail.
I can’t live with defeat hovering in my future. I can’t know that I will put you through my failure again. I’m living each day now as if it were my last.
I love you. I want to watch more of your life but don’t know how long I can stay. Sometimes the emptiness calls...
Thank you for loving me through my time of treatment. With so much beauty in the world to love, how has a chemical become my destructive obsession? I’ll never understand but know now that I’ll never truly be free of it. It might be a week, month or a year, but I'm certain to fail.
I can’t live with defeat hovering in my future. I can’t know that I will put you through my failure again. I’m living each day now as if it were my last.
I love you. I want to watch more of your life but don’t know how long I can stay. Sometimes the emptiness calls...
#motherhood
#addiction
#daughter
731 reads
1 Comment
Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
9th Feb 2023 9:05pm
9th Feb 2023 9:05pm
Growth
Please tell me
so that I might know.
Please explain
so that I might listen.
Please show me
so that I might understand.
Please trust me
so that I might grow.
so that I might know.
Please explain
so that I might listen.
Please show me
so that I might understand.
Please trust me
so that I might grow.
#parent
#motherhood
#childhood #LifeStruggles
#childhood #LifeStruggles
291 reads
2 Comments
Nizana
Lauryn
Lauryn
Poem Published
6th Feb 2023 1:14pm
6th Feb 2023 1:14pm
How Was I Made?
My mother used to say that when she was a young girl, she held the wish for me like a flower inside her blouse, careful not to crush it.
When she met my father, she took out the flower and spread its petals for him.
He said it was beautiful.
By Nizana’s Daughter
When she met my father, she took out the flower and spread its petals for him.
He said it was beautiful.
By Nizana’s Daughter
#birth
#motherhood
551 reads
4 Comments
Gorewhore197666
Brad Case
Brad Case
Poem Published
21st Jan 2023 11:55pm
21st Jan 2023 11:55pm
Control
No one cares
After their born
If they did
Adoption would be
Non existent
Mother Nature is shedding a tear
That’s falling
On deaf ears, as humanity takes
A step back, far to
Many years, no chance to recover
Your rights are gone
To the 12 year old rape victim
Being forced
To give birth, the single mom
Who laid with a
Man that fled in the night
The woman who
Doesn’t want kids, but is forced
To be a incubator
It’s all about control
Your rights
Are only your rights ...
After their born
If they did
Adoption would be
Non existent
Mother Nature is shedding a tear
That’s falling
On deaf ears, as humanity takes
A step back, far to
Many years, no chance to recover
Your rights are gone
To the 12 year old rape victim
Being forced
To give birth, the single mom
Who laid with a
Man that fled in the night
The woman who
Doesn’t want kids, but is forced
To be a incubator
It’s all about control
Your rights
Are only your rights ...
#women
#motherhood
#violence #MentalHealth
#violence #MentalHealth
337 reads
0 Comments
poetic_gawdess
Poem Published
13th Jan 2023 1:15pm
13th Jan 2023 1:15pm
Time
Time.
Do you have any to spare?
Because I ain’t got none.
From the rising of the sun
Till the moment it’s gone
I ain’t got none.
Kids growing up too fast
Time is such a thief.
My baby girl is learning to walk
She’s not yet one,
I’m in such disbelief.
She was just cradled in my arms.
So small,
So dependent.
Every time she needed me,
I was in attendance.
Nuzzled in my bosom,
content while she nursed.
She’s outgrown my lap.
Damn how this hurts.
My...
Do you have any to spare?
Because I ain’t got none.
From the rising of the sun
Till the moment it’s gone
I ain’t got none.
Kids growing up too fast
Time is such a thief.
My baby girl is learning to walk
She’s not yet one,
I’m in such disbelief.
She was just cradled in my arms.
So small,
So dependent.
Every time she needed me,
I was in attendance.
Nuzzled in my bosom,
content while she nursed.
She’s outgrown my lap.
Damn how this hurts.
My...
#children
#parent
#motherhood
#childhood
#family
372 reads
3 Comments
LunasChild8
Poem Published
6th Jan 2023 1:43am
6th Jan 2023 1:43am
Rise and Shine
Rise and shine my darling light
You hold the power of my soul within you
I never believed in love at first sight
Until I held you in my arms
An extension of my mind, body and soul
Only you know what my heart sounds like from the inside
You hold the power of my soul within you
I never believed in love at first sight
Until I held you in my arms
An extension of my mind, body and soul
Only you know what my heart sounds like from the inside
#love
#children
#motherhood #family
#motherhood #family
379 reads
4 Comments
poetic_gawdess
Poem Published
22nd Dec 2022 4:12am
22nd Dec 2022 4:12am
Mama Needs A Break.
Pitter patter
That’s the sound of little feet
Running, yet again
To meet me in the bathroom
And disturb my peace
Fuck.
I can’t take a shower
Without having 100 questions thrown
at me rapidly
By the little curious person
Who was put on this earth by me.
Mom this and mom that
All day long
I mean damn, sometimes I just want to be left alone…
And don’t get me wrong
I love my kids
More than life itself
But is wrong to want to have time to myself
BY MYSELF? ...
That’s the sound of little feet
Running, yet again
To meet me in the bathroom
And disturb my peace
Fuck.
I can’t take a shower
Without having 100 questions thrown
at me rapidly
By the little curious person
Who was put on this earth by me.
Mom this and mom that
All day long
I mean damn, sometimes I just want to be left alone…
And don’t get me wrong
I love my kids
More than life itself
But is wrong to want to have time to myself
BY MYSELF? ...
#children
#motherhood
#family
296 reads
5 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
17th Dec 2022 6:12pm
17th Dec 2022 6:12pm
she
insinuated grace the female form
lovely as she is
a beauty when a child is in the womb
tender gentleness a soul, a life to give
beautiful day her essence came into being
caress the meaning and understand
it is the power of she
of which all life is formed
lovely as she is
a beauty when a child is in the womb
tender gentleness a soul, a life to give
beautiful day her essence came into being
caress the meaning and understand
it is the power of she
of which all life is formed
#love
#motherhood
424 reads
11 Comments
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