Human sponges mothers soak up hurts
Filling their innner space
With family tensions fears
Wounded egos to be nursed
Within an emotional embrace
Saturated bursting into tears
Frayed nerves overwrought
Tolerance stretched and thinned
Striving to be fair but caught
'Tween the finely tuned and thick skinned
A sponge without it's watery soul
Shrivels and grows hard
No longer functional or whole;
Mothers go on absorbing
It's the nature of their role.
From Ring of Voices edited by Anne Lambert ISBN 0 948154 91 8 1996 page 55
About the writer
- Ita McMichael
- Born Jan 1925 - Died Nov 2008 ...grew up in the 1930s in Belfast on the Falls Road, after training to be a nurse in the Mater and Royal Victoria Hospitals she spent a short time as a plastic surgery nurse in England. She moved to Ballycastle to nurse at the Dalriada Hospital in the 1950s where she met her late husband James, a local Pharmacist. She has 7 sons. Ita was a member of the Joan Newman writing group and has published works in the Glens of Antrim Historical Society magazine 'The Glynns', the Catholic Herald, Women's Weekly,the West Belfast Living History Project(Glandore Publishing), Rythym of Hearts (Ballycastle Writer's Group), Ring of Voices (published by Ballymoney Borough Council), You can't Eat Flags for Breakfast and My Weekly. She has several anthologies to her name including, 'Catching Breath', 'North Antrim Fields' and 'Pink Flamingo'. Ita retired in the late 1980s and lived by the sea in Ballycastle looking out over the sea of Moyle. She finished her last poem about her husband James two years ago and it is as yet unpublished.
Seaside Imagery
"...swimming in an open sea; I thought it brave; to shudder in its cold embrace. With feet sinking in sand; I'd race in marram grass; sometimes snicking toes; on the long blades..."
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