Full Moon

by Jenni   Apr 9, 2012


I found myself abandoning
my skin because I do not
want to be your doppelganger.

I tried to hide my breasts, Mama
to be your little girl once more,

but they loomed anyway..

Now I will simply scribble
birthmarks all over my body
to show my origin.

Reminisce with me,
lilt my favorite lullaby again
for there are only few moons left
until you talk to me from
woman to woman..

but I do not want to be
evanescent, really,
I want to make you proud

and though I saw
that spark in your eyes
and guessed its meaning

I realized that what moves you,
doesn't necessarily bring you further..

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  • 11 years ago

    by Khalid M Darwish

    Very well penned piece Jenni.

  • 11 years ago

    by Yrem Crish

    Very meaningful. I am speechless with this poem, I have nothing to say about this but only appreciation,. Gush! How can you write like this, Jenn? I feel I am in love with your stuff, haha, lol! That's why I am longing to read more poems from you because they are really wonderful, ever!
    ~C

  • 11 years ago

    by Marcus blake

    "Reminisce with me,
    lilt my favorite lullaby again
    for there are only few moons left"

    This is really metaphysical to me like I can picture it but I see its much deeper, even from the beginning of the poem I've felt involved with the poem as reader while I watched my own imagination unfold the events you inspired <3

  • 12 years ago

    by nouriguess

    Jenniferrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. MY Jennifer! (Sorry, TJ, but I had to, lol!)

    You have been my passion ever since I met you; my passion in everything, essentially in poetry! And this piece is so damn deep, so damn like you. I mean....like how on earth could you turn an ordinary feeling between every girl and her mother into a heartbreaking poem? I sometimes feel these stuff myself when my stepmother just makes me feel I'm still her baby, lol. It's just the way I interpreted this piece is so heartbreaking to me, makes me remember every fight we had, haha. I love everything about this poem, especially the breasts and birthmarks metaphors! They told your idea, simply. I love how you said 'few moons' instead of 'few months' or something. So original!

    The line you put unexpectedly about making her proud tore my heart to thousands of pieces, I felt so so so related, it just stirs some truly hard emotions in me, when someone talks about making someone else proud with that someone hiding something in themselves, haha, did I make any sense? I so LOVE your ending, it is what made the poem for me, like literally I had chills, because it was so true, sad and deep. Man, you are so talented, like SO talented, y'know! I felt that everything in this poem was effortless, straight from the heart and so real. Do write more!

  • 12 years ago

    by Naughtymouse

    Oh Jenni, I love to read your work but this.....is truly epic the flow and the emotion cut right into me and I swear I must have read it four or five times this is one to be really proud of I'm sure many can relate and I love it :-) xxx

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