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Danielle Pieratti
Poetry

Danielle Pieratti – Rubric for Burying a Hen

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 Vanessa Able

Danielle Pieratti's 'Rubric for Burying a Hen' is a heartbreaking account of what it is to fail to sustain someone or something in our care.

Tagged Death, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood, self-acceptanceLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kathryn Weld – Is the Sun Conscious

December 4, 2022December 1, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In Kathryn Weld's "Is the Sun Conscious", readers are presented with a feminine and motherly sun, and the desolation of her absence.

Tagged absence, Light, loss, mother, motherhood, Poem, poet, Poetry, sun, the sunLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samantha Imperi – To my child, on God

October 16, 2022October 13, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Imperi's powerful tragic poem "To my child, on God" muses God as a feminine force, forced to birth a universe she doesn't want.

Tagged birth, childbirth, God, helplessness, loss, motherhood, Poem, poet, Poetry, Suffering3 Comments
Featured Poetry

Carol Barrett – Esther Talks to Her Unborn Child

August 7, 2022August 4, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Carol Barrett's poem is spoken in the voice of biblical Queen Esther, from the Tanakh or Old Testament Book of Esther.

Tagged Bible, Hebrew, hope, Judaism, mother, motherhood, parenthood, Poem, poet, Poetry, prophecyLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

K. E. Ogden – Daily Labor

July 3, 2022June 30, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Blending domesticity and earthy natural imagery, Los Angeles poet K. E. Ogden presents readers with quite the scene in three short stanzas.

Tagged childhood, growth, healing, human nature, motherhood, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, purificationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Shanley McConnell – Mary sings a lullaby to her baby God

June 19, 2022June 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Gently illuminating a story long important to civilization, poet Shanley McConnell grants readers a glimpse of Mary and the birth of her son.

Tagged Christ, Christianity, loss, love, Mary, motherhood, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
All About Love

A Love Letter to Nathaniel

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY KATE TAGAI - Love only needs an instant to unfurl, and no one knows this better than the mother of a child she only knew for a few days.

Tagged Death, grief, loss, love, motherhood, parenthood2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Cristina Legarda – Mary

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Cristina Legarda's tender poem "Mary" is written from the viewpoint of the mother of Jesus Christ, as she looks back with a heart full of love and sadness at moments with her divine child.

Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, jesus, loss, love, Mary, miracles, motherhood, parenthood, Poem, Poetry, SadnessLeave a comment
All About Love

The River Cabin

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CAITE MCNEIL Making the decision to move back to Maine wasn't easy for a mother who wanted her daughter to love her home as much as she does.

Tagged california, childhood, forgetting, homecoming, learning, Maine, motherhood, nature, spiralLeave a comment
Maggie Smith
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Maggie Smith – Good Bones

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Maggie Smith's beautiful and poignant poem about the how to parent and teach beauty to our children.

Tagged Advice, Children, life, love, motherhood, Poetry1 Comment

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