Congratulations! Poet Dennis Daly has given birth to a poem.

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Caesarian Birth

Events vacillate in the blackness
Of this pre-world, a narrative
Illuminated by silver waves,
Shooting-stars, and lightning’s turbulence.

Gazing on these portents in wonder,
The tug lessens, the urgency fades
As a thought swims toward the soul’s center,
The heart-press, the nurturer of all.

The intrusion, like a shock of ice,
A freezing of the polar seas;
And the blistering from this knowledge
Destroying sure harmony, haven.

Hiding under a vital tuck,
She curls away from the life-giver,
The alien hand that draws, delivers
Through times widening tear her song of self.

– Dennis Daly

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