Where have I gone? I'm taking the Writer's Digest, Poem a Day Challenge, that's where I've gone. They throw out a prompt, I write, it's challenging, but worth it to tweak my brain enough to get a handle on just the right words. Sometimes it flows, and sometimes it is a stretch, but you can see for yourself. Have fun!
April 1, 2009 prompt: origins
Celebrate Life!
By Diane Hobaugh
The love, the touch,
the origin of conception,
no joke, no trick,
zygote formation;
child forming, developing,
embodied DNA,
those chromosomes,
typically constant
numbered, ordered, dividing
during mitosis,
again in meiosis,
are differently
directed to one spot
supposing to go off
in even pairs
during cell division,
but instead, painting a picture,
unique karyotype,
a little boy, or a girl,
with three chromosomes,
on number twenty-one,
attentive with attributes,
a beautiful child
born with Down syndrome.
Celebrate life!
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