Inspiring poetry for parents, by parents

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Mothering explores the depths of natural living and family relationships through inspirational poetry.

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• A Child's Fragile Sleeping Soul
• A Daddy Day Out
• A Joke
• Acquisition
• The Adoption Conception
• Ah David
• A Leaf Falling is a Leaf Falling
• Almost Five
• A Lineage of Light
• A Mother's Nature
• An Answer
• An Often Repeated Scene
• A Picture Of Love
• A Poem for My Daughters
• A poem for you
• Artichokes
• At A Wedding
• At My Breast
• At Times
• A Woman's Choice

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B

• Baby At My Breast
• baby earth
• Battling Vaccine-induced Autism
• Because of Our Giving Now
• Bee Priestesses
• Before You Go
• Berkshire Evening
• Between Features
• Beyond
• Beyond The Self
• Big Brother, Little One
• The Birth
• Birthing
• The Birthing
• Birthing Brings Me
• Birthwork
• Birth Poem
• Bitter Sweet
• Blessing
• Boring Song to Don
• Burnt Offerings
• Burrow
• By the Glowing Green Light of a Heart Monitor

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C

• Calendar
• Camille's Teeth
• Captive Audience
• Cave of Sleep
• Celebrate the Woman Pregnant
• Changing Grace
• Chant for Transition
• Circle of Womanhood
• The Climber
• Coleman's Eyes
• Color Blind
• Colostrum
• Communion
• Compass
• Cosmos

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D

• A Departure
• Delivery
• Diana Doll
• Dirt Under My Nails
• DINOSAURS
• Draft Dodger Mother
• The Dream Vacation
• The Dress God Wears

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• Ecstatic Joy Made Mind & Task
• Ellen At Eleven
• Emptying
• Envy (for Mara)
• Evanescence
• Exemplar

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F

• Family Sampler
• Family Tree
• Fingernails
• Firstborn Teen
• The First, IV
• The Fish Makes The River, The River The Fish
• Foot Note
• For Jillian
• For Leilah
• For My Son, Trapped Within
• For Now You Sleep
• For Sundance
• For The Little Traveler
• For Zarli
• Fourteen
• The Foxes
• Functions of Motherhood
• Funeral

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G

• Gathering
• Gentle Child
• Girls With Glasses
• Grandmothers
• Great Aunt Katherine Dressing
• Greta To Sea

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H

• Haiku
• Hand-Me-Downs
• Heaven-gate
• He Wakes Shocked
• Heirloom
• Hide and Seek
• The Holy Mother Speaks To Her Child At The Threshold
• Homage To My Linea Nigra
• Housekeeping
• How does that poem go?
• How to Eat a Tomato

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I

• I
• I Am Mama
• I Am the Lucky One
• I Could
• In Flight
• In Earth Life
• Intensive Care Nursery
• In Shadows
• In The Basket Marty Brought To The Hospital After The Cesarean
• In the Dark
• In The Midst
• In The Next Room
• In the Old Wightman School Gym
• In the split second of crowning
• Into The Water World of Women
• In Transit
• It's Not so Bad
• I Want to Speak About the Birth of My Son
• I Wear My Stretchmarks Like Tattoos

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J

• Jordan

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K

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L

• Laws of Nature: Muggins at Three
• Let's Name All the Cats
• Letter to Rosa
• Light Out
• Listen
• Lollipop Trees
• Love
• Love Is
• Lucas At 4
• Lucky
• Lullabies

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M

• Magic
• Magnificat
• The Marksman in the Mother Ward
• Maturity
• Messy with Delight
• Milkfed
• Milklight
• The Miscarriage
• Mommy's MOMA
• Morning
• Mother's Milk Is...
• Mother's Poem
• Mother
• Munchkins
• Music
• My Belly Holds a Child
• My Boy And How Much He Loves Me
• My Child My Dear
• My Daughter Is Right
• My Days Are Made of You and Me
• My Inner Artist
• My Slumbering Babe at Sleep
• My Womb Stretches like a Small Sapling
• My Unborn Babe Yet At Play

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N

• Nature of Labor
• Nestling
• Nighttime Nursing
• Night Shadows
• Nobody Knew You
• No Child of Mine
• No Children, No Pets
• Nursing Finn

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O

• Ode to an Adopted Child
• Oh Thing
• On Catching Chickenpox From My Baby Daughter
• Once
• One-year-old
• On The Treatment Of Colic
• The Opening
• Owies

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P

• Pictures of Sholom
• Pitching a Softball with My Daughter
• Plight of the Kitchen Poet
• Poem For Nico
• Preserved Children
• Primavera

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Q

• Quickening

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R

• Raising Giants
• The Raspberry Boys
• Reading Lessons
• Reality
• Reciprocal
• Riches
• Rondeau
• Rosary
• Ripening
• Rivers
• Russian Dolls

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S

• Sacred Places I Have Nursed My Son
• Sam, Turning Ten
• Save Me A Day
• Sebastian's Scent
• The Second
• The Silence Of A Moment
• Singing Down Baby B
• Singing the Light
• Six-O-Four
• Sleepy Heads
• Small
• Smoke Signals
• Sometimes
• Sometimes I think I hear her calling
• Song
• So Time Grew
• Span
• Storm
• Struggle Is What We Remember
• Surrender
• Swaddling
• Sweet Little Girl Talk

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T

• Table Manners
• Take Pictures
• Taking Out the Garbage
• There Will Be Time
• This Day
• This is a fat-liberation poem
• To Amanda
• To Be Only Mama
• Together We Can Dance
• Together We Swim
• To Marion - In Answer To Your Request
• To My Daughter In Her Father's House
• To My Teenage Son
• To Some Poets We Know
• To The Mother From Scarsdale Who Asked About Publishing Her Daughter's Poems
• Toughening Up
• True Story
• Trying to Conceive
• Turning Twelve
• Twenty Weeks

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U

• Undelivered
• Untitled
• Untitled 2
• Untitled 3

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V

• Vegetability
• Visibility

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W

• Waiting for My Son on the Jr. High School Steps
• Watching Mary Dance
• The Water World of Women
• We Rise to the Occasion
• What About Michael?
• What Happens
• Whistling in the Oxygen Tent
• Why Worry
• With My Son at Urgent Care
• Woman and her Young in the Wilds of Detroit

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Y

• Yellow Poem: For Jessie's Father
• You are a Lens
• The Youngest Prepares to Leave Home
• Your Distant Shore
• You See Mothering is Leaving