Fetal Times

Fetal Times

A Poem by Pete
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We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they. - Thoreau

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Umbilical Cord ...

newborn days alive
umbilical nights speak jive
sticks in a bee hive



© 2026 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." - Thoreau

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Added on February 17, 2026
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..