Handprints on the Womb Author:Theodore Richards To know — What it means to be human; — To find the wisdom to become — Homo sapiens: — To live the love — That burns; — To remember, — And to dream a world — To life; — To sing songs, to write poems, to tell stories; — To taste the wind with our tongues — And to listen to the leaves; — To press our tiny hands — To the edge of our womb world; — To be amazed and... more » terrified,
At this awesome, awful world;
To be born,
Bloody, swollen, and full of possibility.
I didn't know I was a poet until my daughter was born. That day, I wrote a poem. Then I began to go back through my old journals hidden in closets, pieces of paper tucked away in books. Napkins in the corner of my desk. I excavated poems from prose. And there it was.« less