Saturday, January 14, 2012

Botero's Babes




all babes are
born of babes - fat and round
round-ton babes - the world view
is round, round and rough - filled with lust of roll'in
round, roll'in round
with babes

babes are birthed between the thighs
between the round and sweating sighs
between the sheets a mother
lies - lies and sighs and cries her
birth - birthing babes so round

the men they watch
as watch they do, the birthing and the boring of
the round as rounder a woman (babe)
she rolls and rolls  - til moon and babe cry at night
cry for a mother's breast so full, as breast
so round so warm with milk, suckle, suckle it
all gone dry, all gone
those round-ton babes

as babe is born
of full and fat and roll'in babe - of round and thighs
sweet and whole, flesh on flesh
so full and round - til milk is dry all fall
round...as all fall down

as babe it born
of babe---

bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2012

14 comments:

  1. ugh babes born of babes is a sad thought itself...seen far too often...love your continual return to round...and everything is certainly round in childbirth for sure...nice rhymes sprinkled through out make this flow really well bk

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  2. your poem has a round feeling as well through the repetition and rhymes..and the circle closes in the end.. and again and again

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  3. i like the rolling round and round...like an unending circle so hard to break...nice one ~

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  4. wow this is a real tongue twister ...really enjoyed it thank you x

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  5. I too like the roundness of this poem...the circle of life...sorry for the lion king reference :) nice work!

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  6. There's a wonderful playfulness with the words that I find charming and think fits the subject well.

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  7. wonderful write, the flow and whimsical words and how they meld and sing together, perfect write, despite the subject

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  8. What a marvelous write! Perfect take on the picture!

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  9. Great repetition! Your poem perfectly fits the painting.

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  10. Barbara, I believ you might be right. I KNOW you are 'write'. And...you write RIGHT!
    Thanks, Girl-Peep
    PEACE!

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  11. Superb. A hymn of praise to rotundity - or not. But either way, brilliant.

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  12. Nice to see a positive take on the art, even if the treatment is fittingly world-weary.

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  13. Sad that so many babes are born of babes, but oh! this poem! Round and round and round it (roundly) goes. Birthing and boring (!) and rollin'--wonderful language, playful and also deep. Wonderful wonderful stuff. Thank you!

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