The Astute Art Of Parenting

This poem deals with the complexities of single parenthood.

By Stanley Collymore

 

There’s more to parenting than being a mother

who, whether consciously or accidentally so,

conceives and subsequently delivers into

a world of uncertainty the helpless

infant she’s successfully carried

for its full term, with or minus

the physical presence, moral

or the financial support

of a biological father.

 

For true parenting primarily embodies

the inculcation of those essential values

which irrevocably prepare that once

fragile child for the robustness of

adulthood; and you Teri, tender

in years as evidently you are

yourself, seem to have

already detected and

truly mastered

that art!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

5 January 2013.