PRE NATAL

Pre Natal , a poem by Adiela Akoo

I remember how anxious you were

to be free

of the placenta

kicking and pushing

trying to expand your world

and always when I settled down for a rest

as if urging me

to get up and rock you

with the motions of my daily routine

you loved your father even then

lulled by the sound of his voice

you'd grow quiet

as he ever so gently

stroked my bulging tummy and you

then we'd both drift off to sleep

From Lost in a Quatrain by Adiela Akoo

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Pre Natal by Adiela Akoo from her book, Lost in a Quatrain.

Adiela Akoo with her baby boy about whom she wrote the poem, Pre Natal

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First published in Fidelities X, edited by Kobus Moolman

Nominated 'Poem of the Day' on the massive platform, PoemHunter

Also published in Lost in a Quatrain