Conversation in a Birthing Bath with Ibu Robin
I sat in a water birthing pool into the night Flowers and oils floated on the water and a small torchlight shone through the…
Poem
Moon
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle
You are a midwife
You are a midwife. You are assisting at someone else’s birth Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what…
Gazing up at Me
Poetry is a way to capture moments in motherhood that slip between our fingers from thought to feeling.
Cry – a poem.
A poem, inspired by birth, an erasure piece adapted from Dark Side of the Moon by Alan Duff.