Poem For Fall


.Through the tired leaves of autumn

I see her golden face.

Just rising over the dusty hills

A full moon brings babies doesn't it?

I shrug and smile.

Babies come when they come

But what better time to be born

When the mother shows her autumn face

Warm, golden, haloed by the dust of the harvest

Full and round as a pregnant belly

All her mysteries inside, waiting

Waiting, waiting, always waiting

For that first tug and tightening

That pull of the groin the dew of the womb

The tumultuous strain and release

The road of the mothers cry as one becomes two

She brings her baby to the mother

Holding her daughter high, naked

For the mother to see

To light the child with her golden glow

It is finished, or just begun

Through the tired leaves of autumn

I see her golden face.

 

Judy


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