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DD- Pregnant Moon Blessings

Inspiration & News for the E-zine 'A River of Milk'

Written Inspiration
You can read some interesting approaches of the subject by famous poets here! https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poems-birth-and-parenting 

'Poems about birth and parenting are poems about creation, or beginning, or nurturing, or innocence, and poets have found such metaphorical resonance irresistible.' 



Painted Inspiration
Here I share with you some images that could possibly make you want to birth a poem:

Some sweet one's:

 
 Two works by the lovely Yasmeen Amina Olya..                           www.yasmeensong.com

Motherhood presented wildly romantic.

Some darker ones...

A mother's wild protective nature..

This picture of a body-painted woman in black and white reminds me of the Ina May Gaskin-quote about birth 'Let your inner monkey do it'.

Switch of the thoughts and be one with nature.

& famous:

Gustav Klimt - The three ages of woman

Have you noticed that often the old woman is left out of this picture, on postcards and online images?
Very significant for our society's view on what should be shown and what not. This dark woman in the third age is definitely asking for a voice in 'A River of Milk'.

Henry Ford Hospital by Frida Kahlo 

This small painting (16" × 12") reflects one facet of her struggles: a history of recurrent pregnancy loss.

News!

'A River of Milk' is also open for visual artist's Submissions! 

I am looking for a cover- and promoting-picture to replace the one with the whale.

It would be utterly amazing if you could create something that captures both the dark as the wild-romantic side of motherhood/pregnancy and/or birth.

Pitiful enough I can't pay the writer's and artist's at the moment, but who knows what will grow out of this project in the future? If you feel inspired by the whole idea and it gets you on a wave of creation, this is where your joy is! To follow your joy will make you feel 'rich', which brings you on your path to abundance. I am still a believer myself ;).

For the submission-guidelines for poets, go to the original call for submission-post

http://mothergoddesspoetry.blogspot.co.at/2016/03/a-river-of-milk-poetry-e-zine-about.html

Thanks for your sharings!

writes,

your Laura

Send your bottlepost with love!

Ocean in love - watercolour and acryl on canvas

La Mar Enfortuna - watercolour and acryl on canvas

Here you see two of my works where the ocean, our great mother is strongly present.

The element water stands for emotion and is connected with the second chakra, through where we experience  our sensual being and creative expression. Making these works helped me to actually visualize a rich and satisfying second-chakra-experience. The woman, the expression of self in these paintings is one with the element water. In Ocean in love she holds a heart on her belly and throws a bottle with her wish into the water. She gives the ocean her trust and surrenders with a good feeling to whatever may come. For sure her wish is heared and she feels like how she will feel in the moment her wish will be fulfilled!

In La Mar Enfortuna a river overflows the trees and houses. On the other side of the river there is fire..The woman becomes a mermaid so she can dive and go with the flow. And even in this darkness, she is focussing on the treasure. Where she is, she beieves in it an finds it, in the mouth of something dark.

I can not express how great my love is for the ocean. Her sound, her smell, her breathtaking looks, how sunlight, wind and clouds play with her, how she comes and goes, feeds and kills. It took me a moment before I could write the word kill, because I know she took innocent lifes. But it´s the cycle of life fascinating me. Death means empty space and nature is so endlessly creative, where she is hurt she somehow seems to kiss herself.. Where she hurts others, human-beings can learn to heal and trust in the neverending loving life-force.

Hope and her baby

Vlinderweg

Livia´s geboortekaartje

                                          Kindje, met jou is ons een engel gegeven
                                          met al je kleuren schijn je verliefd op het leven
                                          jouw regenboogwegen schitteren
                                         door het bos

                                          Dankbaar en dolblij zijn wij dat jij geboren bent!
                                                                  L I V I A  M I M O U N A
                                          1 maart 2011, 12.12. uur
                                          48 cm, 2880 gram