Continuing our feature to highlight some of the (non-Tweet Party) poems of our contributors, today we have one by a young mother, expectant mother, wife, photographer (and you should really check out her photos at Informal Moments Photography – like poetry in photographs.)

Kelly Langner Sauer

http://www.twitter.com/arestlessheart

http://www.thisrestlessheart.com/2009/11/eves-regret.html

eve’s regret

I knew.

I knew You.

I knew what it was to be with You
to be taken by You
to hope I could be

so beautiful as You were
always so beautiful as I was
when You were

with me.

he played me for a fool
serpent writhing round the tree
round my imagination
round my soul

and squeezing
doubt from wonder

offering more than I had, more
than evening walks
than waiting for You
than listening.

he painted Love
etching on sea-washed sand
slipping

through my fingers

and I couldn’t lose You
who were so beautiful to me

I ate.

I ate it and I shared.

I ate it hoping to capture You for me
to grasp knowledge You were holding out on me
You must have been…

so innocence died
my being destined now to strive with Yours

my child-birth travail
screaming with tree and earth and universe
against him

groaning lonely for Your once-known Presence
learning to wait
trying to listen

even when You speak no words.

And always hoping Love will be more, more
than he said it was
than I had experienced
than I suspected

when I ate.

I am never full now.

Return to me

Redeemer

Copyright 2009 Kelly Langner Sauer. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.