Flesh in Profile (poetry monthly)

Love it. Absolutely love this. It's small, strong, statemented, shapely, says something, carries lots of weight, like the gorgeous mother and babe up there being shocking, like the sharp dual profile of both a baby sucking and a breast.

hah! Brilliant!

Hi Bee,

I enjoyed reading your poem and thought it went perfectly with the beautiful photo. Only wish I'd been able to breast feed, wouldn't have thought twice about doing it in public, only my son couldn't suckle so had to use a breast pump which was horrible.

You put the message over well.

Jenny.

Seductively funny...

How odd that some males can watch sexual scenes on televised dramas without batting an eyelid and yet squirm at the sight of a perfectly natural function, that of a mother breastfeeding in public.
Your point is very valid, Bee, and should put to shame the hypocrites.
The visual image of your poem brilliantly reflects the message.

Luigi x

Hi Bee

Nicely done - with the image carved into writing. I don't remember ever getting any adverse comments when I was breast feeding in public - although I did always have a blanket or something covering most of me.

Jean

This is genius! I sent it to my friend - she loved it too. 

Well!  What a furore such a perfectly natural thing can bring about.  I am completely on your side with this. I once saw a mother with her very young baby being fed propped up in a shopping trolley, which was an image I found much more disturbing.  

Although, I must admit, I could never feed my two babies in public, but that was for entirely different reasons. In order not to cause offence, my boobs only ever came out under cover of darkness! My philosophy being, during daylight hours, keep the baps in the breadbin!.

As always, in my thoughts,

Moya x

Forgot to mention,

This is a great poem!  Form matching content.   The  two capitalised words  gave the poem the power of a punch!

Moya x

The gallant and ever ready Joe public,on a white horse,coming to rescue mothers from babies.An intrusion of privacy...Nicely put.What mother nature had intended,we men (and some women,I think..) chastise and shame.Our decency and moral uprightness in this matter is but a cloak to disguise the failings of society to women.The shame is ours.Don't we all have mothers?werent we all wee ones once before?Forgetful,condescending idiots.

nicely done,