#motherhood poems on Hello Poetry

Elizabeth Kelly Nov 2023

There’s something so comforting
In trading in everything
The taking and giving
Of motherhood

What does it mean to be whole?
Shifting your insides around an additional soul?
The pain and the toll
Of motherhood

How to express
The vastness of universes
Alongside the mundane
Of getting dressed in the morning?

There’s something so absolute
Something so boundlessly true
In the brown of the root and the red of the fruit
In the green of the shoots
Of motherhood

#motherhood #parenthood #new #mom #questions

skyyy Sep 2023

Us Mothers

What world do you speak of
That fetishizes the mother
And turns it’s back on the infant
Pursing
Suckling
Like a bee on a Carmellia in
July

What is inside of me that hasn’t
Already been emptied?
Do you every wonder,
Why, we mothers
Bake our children cookies
Only to wrap our heads in cloth?

And our husbands,
God rest their souls,
Will burn down the walls
To put out the fire

#sylviaplath #outofseasonflowers #ideation #motherhood #lonely #empty

J Robert Fallon III Sep 2023

No Matter What

Immense responsibility is ****** into life when parenthood arrives.

Unconditional love thrives,
I’ll love you no matter what told
an infinite number of times.

No blueprint available brings worry and stress,
wanting your child to flourish and grow,
not wanting to depress their ability to progress.

Always wanting to express support and care since an embryo.

The rollercoaster of life inevitably takes control and never lets go.

Child, teen, and then adult makes the parent feel time to let go and become the background chaperone.

I’ll love you no matter what.
I’ll love you no matter what.

A phrase that will never age.

A child grows but the love they felt and feel is their most preciously held ideal.

- For my Mother -

#love #childhood #motherhood #parents #support #care #gratitude #innocence #life #pain

Zywa Sep 2023

[ She wants to die, locks ]

She wants to die, locks

herself in, her mother calls --

and then grabs the axe.

Poem "suicide watch" (2022, Antjie Krog)

Collection "Truder"

#depression #motherhood

Unpolished Ink Sep 2023

Brave Swans

I stand and watch my brood depart
brave captives of an Autumn sky
they need no shelter from my wings
now they are swans and want to fly

#motherhood #independence

Tee Dossantos Aug 2023

4 Months

Monday Night..
After work and dinner
After providing space for big emotions (yours, your sisters and my own)
After working through the mess in my head,
Laundry,
Laundry needs to be done
But you are sleepy and need me to sleep

It's hard for me to be still, to not accomplish the tasks constantly laid out in front of me

but you need me to sleep

So I'll let the laundry sit, forgo the upteenth time I've walked through the house putting **** away today..

You need me to sleep, So I'll sit with you.

#postpartum #motherhood #son

Carlo C Gomez Jun 2023

She Was in the Field Counting Stars

~
In the mist of late night solitude,
                 from a mislaid plateau,
                 with a suitcase full of sparks

She observes constellations
        reflected as little needy eyes,
                        peering down at her

They could be midnight directives,
       postcards from distant nebula
                            suspended in gaffa

       "Ne t'enfuis pas..." She exhales

Still she wonders:

        will her children grow to love
          their perfect machines more
                                    than they love
                  their imperfect mother?
~

"Ne t'enfuis pas" is a French phrase which means "don't run away"

#motherhood #family #doubt #loyalty #responsibility #children #love

Jacqueline Skidmore Jun 2023

My Mother Waves

My hair is a mess of antennae-
Each piece picks up static of days
dead and gone.

I run through the noise with unmanned hands- feeling the weight of each lock.

Where’s the golden child?
The girl with a head full of health?
Of ringlets
yet to be devoured by time, sweat and dissonance.

As I drift I hear the voice of my mother fading- her chord was cut and motioned off-air in the wake of new administration.

Memories trapped in the roots of straightened strands. Her signal comes through as a muffled cry:

“These ends may be swept away,
but my music will still play
through your stereo.”

#loss #motherhood #death #rebirth #drifting #time #childhood #growth #evolution

Chloe Mar 2023

like a river

It flows when I think of the one I love
It flows when I hold him close to my heart
It is the glue that will never let us part
It flows when I am close with the one I love

I hold him sleepily and warm
He holds me just as close and firm
There is a rhythm, an unspoken language, we share
I feel him close even when I am not there

It flows because I made him so carefully
It flows because I need him as much as he needs me
I know we will never, ever part
It flows from the river of my heart

#motherhood #love #joy #breastfeeding #wonder #beauty #nature