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Baby shower poems that touch the heart should be worthy works of art as much as any other forms of poetry. Believe me, I am not an English major nor could I converse intelligently about iambic pentameter or other poetic rhythms…but I know what I like personally. In the dozens of baby showers that I have attended I have heard some wonderful poems that touched everyone’s heart and left us breathless in our feelings of love and welcoming for the mother and her new baby.
According to what I have read ion the subject poetry can be grouped into two major categories: Traditional and Modernist. Cutting to the quick: the traditional approach brings forth its emotional pictures from out of of a strict discipline of form, rhythm and sound. Think ballads, sonnets, haiku.
The modernist form eschews such constraints and seeks to abandon form to fly freely in a universe of thought. Meaning extracted from free form association seems to be its goal. The modernist mouths a pure stream of consciousness to let loose what lives inside her. I don’t know, a bit abstract and dry for baby shower poems, don’t you think?
To be honest, I much prefer the traditionalist approach. To me, traditional baby shower poems are like word songs that take me outside of myself and connect me with the new person to come or arrived recently. I truly admire the talent it takes to bring me to that place within such a strong discipline. By the way, discipline can be fun too! Take this example of a “Limerick”, a poetic form reportedly invented by a man named Edward Lear and named after a town in Ireland:
There was a Young Lady whose chin,
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp,
And purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin.
See, not too hard. That’s a form I could easily work out of myself to wrote a funny, heartfelt poem for my friend.
How about this:
There was a young mother to be,
Who had not one baby but three;
Oh husband she cried,
Regarding safety, you lied!
She was a woeful young mother to be.
Marisa Meidle is a writer and fan of baby showers. You can see more at http://www.squidoo.com/baby-shower-poems/
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