
A Baby, Yet a Mother Be!
Sad child bride — someone to love
“Oh, my! A wasted life! Don’t stop, walk on, eyes down. We knew she would amount to nought. Trollop!”
Married, Planned pregnancy, A need to love — be loved. A life to hold to aching breast, My son!
Backs turned. I can do this Though gaslit, ridiculed, Approval withheld — never mind, I’m strong!
Fortress to protect us. Impenetrable love. Your arrows fall to ground. I am MOTHER!
Secrets I whisper, “Dear, Drums of life are beating. Our love army growing; twin hearts. Siblings!”
I am quite new to the wonderful world of poetry — all credit for encouraging me goes to Carolyn Hastings. Thanks Carolyn.
My personal poem above is a collection of American Cinquains. Recent forays into the form revealed that a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem is a Crown Cinquain.
Thanks for reading my poem!
The Prompt. Thank you, Suntonu Bhadra
Some other lovely mother poems from Carolyn Hastings
and Shadai at Poetic Therapy
