In Honor of World Poetry Day: A Birth Poem
In 1999, the United Nations proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day as “an invitation to reflect on the power of language and the full development of each person’s creative abilities.” To celebrate that, below is the poem I wrote about my daughter’s birth story and gave to my husband on his first Father’s Day. Athenian Birth by Donna DeForbes, June 2007 The journey of just me and you sharing time and space and giddy daydreams; you—attentive, caring, honoring my ripeness, a moment in time never to be repeated— ends with a river flowing out of me, our water baby, ready to meet us. Time stands still for minutes, hours, becomes a GoldenEagle crescent moon day, then fluttery contractions snowball into induced pain, nonstop shaking tremors, breathing, heaving, sniff huff, hee hee hoo! crying, falling heartbeat. I call to you through epi-fog and oxygen masks—is everything okay? Your eyes answer … Continue reading
