Breasts
By Bee
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Comfort place of tired heads -
pillows - not talking pert nipples,
the bouncing fondles for sex,
but all that too -
Breasts, so much more,
symbolically speaking, than
simple flesh, represent
a haven for babies, promised
revelation of girlness, beauty, sensation,
identity, inheritance of womanness -
inconvenience.
Bind them, strap them
reduce, augment them under a knife.
Pad and wire, admire,
criticize, despise them -
shape and size.
Press their tenderness
between cold, painful plates -
irradiate
and feel the fear of finding...
elation at not finding,
for another couple of years.
Remembered, the curves of love,
cool kissed skin, the scent of mothering.
Breast is best -The milk that burnt
as it thundered in cascading,
throbbed as it seeped - let you down
as it surged and leaked at any
newborn's lusty cry sucked
in Sainsbury's, but settled to contentment's
quiet remembered moments
with your own.
More than flesh, than sex,
than motherhood,
this symbol of self-symmetry
and completeness
rules the world.
And letting go for the good,
suddenly seems harder for reasons
beyond our control
than it should be.
Beginning.
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Like most of us 'fairer sex',
Like most of us 'fairer sex', Bee, I remember buying and wearing my first bra. The 'uncomfortableness' was even more than wearing supspenders and stockings for the first time. You brought all this back, and much, so very much more.
Tina
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This is a lovely poem and
This is a lovely poem and sums it up all so nicely.
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That last verse so sad but
That last verse so sad but the final word containing such a lot of hope.
Beautiful.
Lindy
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Hi Bee
Hi Bee
I found the last stanza most poignant and touching, yet that last word is so full of positivity.
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You've written all those
You've written all those feelings that women go through in this poem Bee, how well you express them too.
Jenny.
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Beginning.............no word
Beginning.............no word has touched me more than when I read this in your poem.
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breast beginging and breast
breast beginging and breast ending I've read for while, curves, gender and all things tender.
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So much revealed here. It's
So much revealed here. It's like breaking the code of the masons. 'In A nice way'
The inheritance of womanness.... in the following stanza says so much.
Young girls wondering how theirs will be ... if at all.,
"identity, inheritance of womanness -"
A very honest piece.
Written with feeling right from the start. the bosom is the comfort spot for the whole human race.
Yie cannae beat a wee cairry in the shawl.
Weefatfella.
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Hi Bee
Hi Bee
What a lovely poem. It does bring to mind all the emotions that breasts involve - over the years. And your poem is so positive when it might have been full of anguish.
Jean
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Bee, this is such an emotive
Bee, this is such an emotive poem and covers all the hopes and fears that most women can identify with. The anxiety and possible relief experienced by screening. But that last word carries the point of the poem and nourishes the soul.
Moya
Sorry, you didn't get to see the lion video. It is so beautiful it make me cry every time I look at it. Methinks I'll just take another look.
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Hello Bee,
Hello Bee,
Yes, I think if you Google Lion kisses rescuer on youtube it should come up with something about a Columbian woman is reunited with Lion she saved. Whitney Huston is singing I Will Al;ways Love You. The lions face at the end of the video is amazing. It is so full of love.
I hope you see and enjoy it.
Moya X
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Hello Bee,
Hello Bee,
Yes, I think if you Google Lion kisses rescuer on youtube it should come up with something about a Columbian woman is reunited with Lion she saved. Whitney Huston is singing I Will Al;ways Love You. The lions face at the end of the video is amazing. It is so full of love.
I hope you see and enjoy it.
Moya X
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