Songs For All Seasons

Today's Song of the Day is a special one for me. One of the life events I wanted to write about was pregnancy - but you may (or may not) be surprised to learn that there is very little public domain poetry about pregnancy. Thinking about it, the reason is obvious - pregnancy in those days was a thing to be kept secret, not celebrated as we do today. Pregnancy was concealed as it was evidence having *gasp* done the deed!! So I asked my youngest, who has shown an inclination for poetry, to write me a poem about Pregnancy and here is the result. I did add the chorus-type part from the point of view of the mother (those are the indented bits), but the parts from the baby's point of view are the work of my talented now-17-year-old! (And in case you are curious, Julie Reilly is the name I use for my word-writing, as opposed to my music-writing. Reilly is my married name and Cavanagh is my maiden name but they are both me!) ...

Today's Song of the Day is a special one for me. We're taking a break from Grief Awareness Week as today is my youngest's 17th birthday and this song is to celebrate that fact. One of the life events I wanted to write about was pregnancy - but you may (or may not) be surprised to learn that there is very little public domain poetry about pregnancy. Thinking about it, the reason is obvious - pregnancy in those days was a thing to be kept secret, not celebrated as we do today. Pregnancy was concealed as it was evidence having *gasp* done the deed!! So I asked my youngest, who has shown an inclination for poetry, to write me a poem about Pregnancy and here is the result. I did add the chorus-type part from the point of view of the mother (those are the indented bits), but the parts from the baby's point of view are the work of my talented now-17-year-old! (And in case you are curious, Julie Reilly is the name I use for my word-writing, as opposed to my music-writing. Reill...