Editor’s Note: The poems in this week’s blog post come from older issues of La Leche League News, a bimonthly LLLI publication for members, which started in 1958. The name was changed to New Beginnings in 1985. New Beginnings was acquired by La Leche League USA in 2010 and continued to be published as a magazine until 2014, when it was converted to its current weekly blog format at www.lllusa.org/blog/

You can read Poems From The Past, Part 1 here and Poem from the Past, Part 2 here.

ANDREA

By Gloria Darby (1979)

I got her pictures back today.

While they are nice, they can’t portray

Her little touch, that special smile

That makes our nursing so worthwhile.

I pick her up as she starts to fuss,

And feel the love shared by both of us.

As time flies by and babies grow…

I’ll remember the joy that pictures don’t show.

A Haiku
By Edward V. (1975)

Mother nursing child:

Earth, love, warm rain, and breathing
Distill into milk.

being pregnant in march
By Marilyn M (1975)

raindrops plop on my umbrella

and worms lie sideways on the red brick sidewalk.

i want to walk forever.

i want to touch each raindrop,
to cradle each daffodil shoot
unpretentiously hiding a flower.

the wind makes patterns with my coat
revealing a life-swell that i keep
and unthinking rain drips down my back
as if that special new found pattern
could be imprinted on my soul.

the dark brown maple bark,
the new green ivy vine,
these are the vibrant, intoxicated colors
of emerging spring.

and what of life inside –
vibrant, emerging?
is there room for all this unborn swell within?
can i keep this precious first-come bud
safe against the sometimes chilling winds of spring?

and then,
when april, may and june have passed,
when life in all its full toned shades
has come, and brought with it the summer’s heat,
will i then remember rainy walks on red brick sidewalks?
can i keep the life renewal of the ivy vine…?
my own safeguarded daffodil involvement…?
the pattern of the wind…?

GOODNIGHT

by Mary Y (1983)

The dryer is drying;

The dishwasher’s run;

The diapers are soaking

The lunches are done.

The kitten is out;

The bicycle’s in;

The radio’s off

And lights are dim.

Both doors are locked;

The newspaper’s read;

The blankets are tucked

‘Round children in bed.

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