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On moons and mothers

November 26, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Got the kids to bed exactly three hours ago and dashed off to a lovely evening of blessing two pregnant mamas in my Holistic Moms chapter and honoring a third whose child chose to come before we could bless her back in September.

My camera was out of battery, but I had in mind a photo of the moon from the other day (which I just realized did not turn out as I expected, so I’ve messed with it!). So here is the non-haiku I came up with on the way home to make sure I pull off this month of blogging. (How did I only just now realize that I am missing two days on my list below, even though I have without a doubt written every day!?)

There is so much I want to say about promise and expectation, but my health tells me this is it for tonight.


Nothing but the moon
is as beautiful and full
as a pregnant belly

————

After casting aside my poetry hat for far too long, my NaBloPoMo plan is to write a poem — and to take and post a photo — every day in November, spending less than half an hour on both. The hope is to drill down, to focus, to look for and create beauty.

Previous Posts:

Day 1: Eleven One

Day 2: Shoreline

Day 3: Damage

Day 4: On Parenting and Sunrises

Day 5: When will we?

Day 6: Voting Line

Day 7: What I want my children to learn from me

Day 8: Haiku

Day 9: Reminders

Day 10: Routine

Day 11: Lux Esto, in moderation

Day 12: Family Photo Shoot at (nearly) 4o

Day 13: Siblings

Day 14: Point of View

Day 15: Background

Day 15: Greener Grass

Day 16: Journey

Day 17: From two to twelve

Day 18: Baggage

Day 19: Mothering, now and later

Day 20: Expectations

Day 21: Blank canvas

Day 22: Closing in on December

Day 23: Everything we need to know we forget before kindergarten

Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: hope, moon, NaBloPoMo, nature, poetry, pregnancy

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