KarMel Scholarship 2005

 

“The Journey”

By Heather Saunders

 

 

Desciption of Submission: “I wanted my poem to use a symbol that embraces feminity and womanhood

 as well as showing all aspects of a wom- motherhood, sexuality, everything.” - Heather

 

 

 

I nibbled on her breasts

With pink soft baby lips

Receiving warmth and strength and comfort

 

I fell and scraped myself

Ran crying into her arms

Smothered in safety

By her woman’s features

 

I hit that age

Where things and people change

A gentle swelling of my chest

Marked my entrance into womanhood

 

I lay my head upon

My man’s cold smooth chest

So bare and chilling

I lay unfulfilled and desolate

 

Seeking self I found

A heart reaching for mine

Beating under golden skin

A girl so sweet and delicate

 

I nibbled on her breasts

With polished red glossed lips

Discovering warmth and strength and love

 

 

 

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