some dark lonely
night a maiden
in pain succumbs
to labour and
entering the tunnel
to liberation's light
she travels she welcomes the
end of travail and troubles
until a baby’s wail
tugs gently on her silver
cord the mid-wife severs
with a magic sword
the umbilical cord
and mother first beholds her joy
a precious little baby-boy
a child though frail
as fragile as life itself
ample reward her travail
she holds her blood-smeared bundle
to her bosom
so that he can feel
love love love love
the talking-drum-
beat of her heart
pump pump pump pump
pumping the milk of
life as he reaches
for maternal breast
Copyright ©1995 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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