peculiar appetites and odd scars

peculiar appetites and odd scars

 

 

 

i feel as an expectant mother

belly swelling with ideas

a pregnant pause finally ended

 

there is movement, i can feel it

something rising in the womb of thought

 

 

and then,

the idea turns the wrong way

creation upside down,

trying to get out iambic feet first

 

it just won't right itself,

to emerge,

 

have to do a C-Section

the pen cuts a line to the heart

of the dream, and a theme

 

is finally delivered, 

a bouncing baby poem

 

in perfect health, even if a little off 

in rhythm, rhyme and meter.

 

but we love her just the same.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

3/21/16

Reviews

[redzone]

thanks Jacob, now I understand why my belly keeps getting bigger.. too many poems wanting to get out!! and here I thought it was that 3rd helping of pie... ;0)

I am glad you are not wearing protection Jacob, the world is in desparate need of more poetry right now.. And your pregnant poems are more than welcomed... especially if "even a little off/ in rhythm, rhyme and meter." these are the best actually!! And now that you have been C sectioned opened they can just come popping out!!! you now have a new name- "Jacob, the human poetic incubator"!!!

I am having fun with your poem Jacob, just ignore me... I do know and appreciate your creative process, just don't think I am getting you pizza with guacamole and bananas and pistachio ice cream at 3 am.... lol

redzone

[jacob erin-cilberto]

no ice cream? damn!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for the review, and the many smiles, Curt...
read moreno ice cream? damn!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for the review, and the many smiles, Curt...

j.

[Cryingkate]

LMBO Curt..... Of coarse I should of known you were going to take advantage of Jacob in his delicate condition. I hope you are willing to help pay his legal fees, Yup, cause you gave me the idea to take him to court for child support :-)

[redzone]

Hey Jacob I think it's Kate no more pizza and ice cream... she seems to have those pregnant hormones going all over the place.. ;0)

[charlie]

I find sweetness and sincerity in this poem, Jacob. It's touching. Perhaps my favourite among those I've read from you.
Well done.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind comment, charlie.

j.

[Nisreen]

lol
i still have nightmares about giving birth
and i gave birth to my last bundle of joy 4 years ago

lol
yes ......... you have managed to give the perfect image of giving birth to a word of meaning :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i appreciate your words...especially since i don't really know the experience or the pain myself...i just try to imagine...

j.

[Nisreen]

lol ........... i was laughing through it

everyone was like ok ...... who drugged her
and i wasnt drugged ........ yeah it hurts

[Carolynn]

Haha! This is exquisite - love, love, love it! Feel like I've just given birth 200 times :) (and I thought twice was hard enough) I like the humor in this one :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you Carolynn...and glad you got a smile.
j.

[Cryingkate]

i strongly relate to this.
The poem came out well.
It will be accepted and loved,;however I can still sense to the labor pains still existing.
it's like a force that can only be quenched when it is spoken and the actual words are never found.
Sure there is a few adoptions now and then that comfort us. But the true bloodline seems lost somewhere.
The actual DNA of the true blood words are as lost as the tribe of Dan.. Scattered and hidden somewhere in creation. Spitting it out? Naw.... This force is more problematic in it's mystery ,seemingly incarcerated to the womb. The laboring struggle, might as well dowse Websters unabridged and see what plumbs, rather then expect the true words to ever be born.
Enslavement to the search? Creation just took a turn, here the crafty,creator concealed within it's own womb.
I must stop now. I must emerge.... the depth ............ i need an umbilical cord to breathe

[jacob erin-cilberto]

wow, thank you for this review...love the insights...this is better than the poem itself...

j.

[Cryingkate]

Jacob, 'm re-wowing myself.... Your poem is awesome and obviously inspirational. I think you read the proof, knowing I was a bit out of norm lol. You definitely created it.... Oh No... perhaps Curt is correct. ok I want child support

[Autonomous]

Very well put together and organized, I only hope that your belly never stops giving out creative poems!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Zwsed...

j.

[highonwords]

wow - i am a nurse - so i appreciate this write very much - the joy and celebration in giving birth to a poem - the labor is steep and arduous - but the poem will always be beautiful in the eyes of the writer and its doting readers :)

always,
steph

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words...and admire your profession so much...living to help people...that is quite a calling.
j.

[highonwords]

thank you so much, jacob - nursing is a caring vocation - thank you :)

steph