Motherhood

A life is not a
myth – it
is real, the sacrifice of
a mother who had to
lie in her own sweat and blood.
That metamorphosis from woman to mother
conveys what we have always known:
a mother is the fallible goddess of
truth.

Kim M. Russell, 15th June 2026

Image by ArthurHarutyunyan on Unsplash

This Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub we are writing Quadrilles, those 44-word poems, which De would like us to infuse with the word ‘myth’.

I love the Rumi quote she chose to open her prompt: ‘Unfold your own myth’, and the C.S. Lewis one: ‘A myth is a lie that conveys a truth,” which I thought I might use in a word acrostic.

35 thoughts on “Motherhood”

  3. What an awesome poem response to the prompt…and an acrostic!!! Master level writing their Kim, kudos to all the parents out there. If they put up with even half the stuff i pulled growing up to my Mom, then ya’ll are truly deserving of sainthood 🙏

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  11. Absolutely beautiful – and true! The metamorphosis of a woman to a mother….had not thought of it in that way. I think maybe it happens in the nine months we carry a child…..or in the however long hopes of a woman applying to adopt a child. The thing is, about that metamophosis, no matter how old the woman becomes, and no matter how old the child is, the woman is still a mother, right? I really love this poem!

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  13. I love this Kim. I think we only understand the sacrifice our mothers made when we become a mother ourselves, we try and be everything but can never get it right…. but we never stop trying … 💞

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