I watch my baby slumber,
Mouth almost covering my nipple,
Drooling milk from the corner.
Fine droplets of sweat
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What a beautiful poem, capturing so very well the love of mother and baby. So warm and loving your words paint the perfect scene of perfect maternal love. Makes me remember when my tiny daughter grasped my thumb, words are hard to find to describe the feeling....beautiful....10++++++++++++
'As arms and shoulders swim/out of dream' - this is just one of the many truly wonderful images in this poem. Each one adds to this poetic picture, until mother and baby actually swim before the reader's eyes - ingenious! S :)
Awwwww, beautiful! Thoughts of my own sweet sucklers! Thanks for this.