We're sharing our poems from the Weekly Parenting Poetry Workshop:Week 2:
Emerge
This week we're singing our labors and births and reliving the hazy newborn days.
If you have a poem or poems posted on your blog, link up below, or paste your poem(s) in the comments!
I'll be posting next week's theme and prompts on Monday. You can post this week's poems at any time during the challenge — the linky will remain open. To be eligible for a prize, link up or paste your poem(s) before Monday.
For full details on the workshop and prizes and to grab a badge or to catch up with us (join anytime!), see the intro post, Week 2's prompts, and Week 1's poems.
Here are my poems for the week.
April 9: Birth: Sing this life-changing event, the agony or the sublime.
Unexpected
Tricky boy, you sneaked in behind the midwife's back,fooling me into believing I wasn't pushing,
that you wouldn't be arriving till morning at least,
that we had time,
long, monstrous hours to fill,
instead of intense, rapturous, terrible minutes.
You slipped out to our surprise,
a splash that we didn't catch — couldn't —
you too slippery for us to contain or predict,
a flashing red-purple,
wriggling in the water, and finally hauled in,
turning it around
and catching us in your net.
Link up your posts or paste your poems in the comments!
Please comment on the participant directly above you and one other participant of your choice. Feel free to share each other's poems on Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, or Twitter (#parentingpoetry) — everyone can use a little poetry!
I'm asking for your email address in the linky so I can email to let you know when the prompts and linkies are live, and so I can notify you if you're a winner. If you aren't linking up, you can leave your email address in the comments.
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