What About Love: Some/thing Blue

Blue is my favorite color, and it always has been.  In my writing I use the word "blue" often.  It seems to represent all that is. In this photo, for instance, of earth taken from outer space, the demarcations between land and sea, earth and sky, are impossible to distinguish. 

Today's post is dedicated to all of you in the process of trying to start a family. I rarely share my own poems but here is a rare exception. I wrote this about before Marcia and I started to TTC (trying to conceive) process.

Blue That’s Almost Blue
To a Child, Unborn

A calm moon lends        a hush within the room

the night outside        fills its envelope with dread

a claw of hope        scratches its name across clay

I don't know what to feel        because I’m rising into

deep blue music        a ceremony of inner weather

I marvel over        an imagined, sleeping infant

who dreams of islands        I've never visited

never will        He and I are two

bodies trembling and        separate now and always I

hold my breath,        a hostage of the sky.

by Robin Reagler

published in Runes

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Note: This post is part of a blog carnival celebrating Freedom to Marry Week 2009. Feel free to write your own post on your blog or facebook page. Then leave the link to your "something new" post, and I will share it with the group. Check out the other posts on this topic:

About.com: Lesbian Life by Kathy Belge

Adventures in Babymaking

Balanced on the Edge

Susan Naomi Bernstein on Facebook and YouTube

The Birmingham-Luther Family Blog

Bloogs Blowing By

Books, Yarn, Ink

Brenworld's Blog

A Child Chosen

Don't Lick the Ferrets

The Fine Art of Me

Geek Porn Girl

Grumpy Granny

Hahn at Home

I'm a Mommy Too

Kimizone

Lesbian Dad

The Longest Road - Yet Untraveled

May the Beauty

musings

SoCal Mom by Donna Schwartz Mills

SprogBlog

StidMama

Tales of a Female Husband

Tinacious.com

Two Chicks Nest

Up Popped a Fox

Whistling Leaf Blower

Woolverine

Comments

[christine]

Lovely poem, R. A beautiful way to seal the week.

[Jenn]

Beautiful poem - thanks so much for sharing! Woolverine blue post at http://woolverine.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/blues-clues/

Thanks for doing this again - I've had such an incredible time reading everyone's posts!

[Kim]

lovely poem, i agree. I also thank you for doing this. It's not only a great thing in terms of exposure for such a cause, but i'm having a lovely time reading the posts, many from blogs i've never read.

http://kimizone.com/kim/?p=641

kim

[lindsey]

Here's my entry:
http://www.lindseywb.net/blog/?p=1035

I've really enjoyed reading everyone's entries & finding some new blogs to read!

[twochicksnest]

Here's my post for today - http://twochicksnest.blogspot.com/2009/02/freedom-to-marry-week-something-blue.html

This has been so much fun so thank you!

[Ms. Loaf]

Lovely poem! I've been posting poems most of these days, since I'm a poet.

Here's my post for today: http://femalehusband.com/2009/02/13/something-blue-freedom-to-marry-week/

[cake]

talk about a love song! that is a moving piece of writing. no wonder you don't share your poems more often-- you don't want to overwhelm us, or make us so envious of your talents that we can't bear to visit your blog anymore! seriously, thank you for sharing that.

i'm still on borrowed, hope to get blue up today...

[Susan Sonnen]

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing your poem, Robin.

Today's link: http://susansonnen.blogspot.com/2009/02/something-blue.html

[Cheryl]

That poem read like an embodiment of that photo, or maybe vice versa. Lovely indeed. Thanks for sharing your work!

[Susan]

Robin,

Thanks so much for this poem and its wonderful deep blue blue images. Here is my post for today http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&suggest&note_id=74522288824 and I also want to share one of my favorite something blues, from a long-lost childhood art class field trip in 1968: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9oWl5ydQAA

Peace and good weekend to us all,

Susan

[stidmama]

Robin, I am in awe of your poem.

Thank you for doing the blog carnival again.

My post is up at http://www.stidmama.com/?p=1003

[eliaday]

Thanks for sharing... and inspiring, as usual!

http://eliaday.typepad.com/baby/2009/02/something-blue.html

[anniem]

That was beautiful. And blue.

[Marcie pickelsimer]

Again, late. I love that poem.
http://www.achildchosen.com/something-blue/

[christina]

beautiful poem. thank you.

i never posted my last two days! in bed with a cold & a bit delirious!! but here it is, anyway:

http://steadyhappy.blogspot.com/2009/02/something-blue-freedom-to-marry-week.html

[Polly]

That was utterly gorgeous. Utterly. It's a shame (at least to we, your readers) that such things are rare here!

Now, so late it's almost early for next year, is the second-to-last installment in the What About Love series, Some/thing blue.

Don't hold your breath, but as goddess is my witness I will finish the last one before the end of the weekend. Lucky for me it's a long one. [shrugs sheepishly]