March 17, 2026

Baby To Be Born - by Stella Jansen


Baby to be born

 

Like a flower are you

or maybe like a bird

sailing on the clouds.

I feel sensations of

fluttering wings of a

butterfly.

Your time is due,

honey-child,

me and you

are going to reach

each other

-      eye to eye – 

and see and feel and

touch and smell and be.

The world begins anew;

my heart and yours are

close together:

thump…thump…thump….

Our souls and bodies will

become stronger and better.

Move inside me, you, unknown Light.

I’m waiting to meet you,

my true delight!


First Prize in the 1993 BAPC Poetry Competition, Berkeley,

CA. USA, published in 1994 BAPC Anthology 15, Berkeley, CA, USA