Born Anew

This poem was written in response to the Rattle® Poetry Ekphrastic Challenge for August 2022 and was ultimately not selected. You can find more information here.

https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/

The image that this poem was specifically written about can be found here. (August 2022 – Enne Tess’s “Worm”)

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Born Anew

We are made metamorphic beings

From father’s seed to mother’s womb

We draw in what is old

To be birthed new into the world

From our moment of existence

We are but food for what comes after

Bodies broken down, bodies rebuilt

Taken from outside and brought within

And when we conceive our own

Bringing them into the world

We are re-made in their flesh

Life from what was to that which is now

Then in death and decomposition

The world exacts upon us the same metamorphosis

Below the water line, in earthen soil, on forest floor

Bodies broken down, bodies rebuilt

And born we are anew

Submitted under MRB