Song for Baby-O, Unborn

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Sweetheart
when you break thru
you'll find
a poet here
not quite what one would choose.

I won't promise
you'll never go hungry
or that you won't be sad
on this gutted
breaking
globe

but I can show you
baby
enough to love
to break your heart
forever

Diane di Prima

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Topic(s) of this poem: parenting

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Bill Grace 11 October 2022

Third time in less than fifteen minutes she has touched my soul.

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Roop Rekha Bhaskar 22 June 2015

Mothers love is incomparable. We dream of our babies and how we are going to take care even before we become mothers. it is sweet.

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Allotey Abossey 18 June 2015

excellent demonstration....it's a beautiful song...Iove it.

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Kelly Kurt 17 June 2015

A thought of mothers from the beginning of time. Thanks, Diane

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