Mother Love

  • For My Blossom

    Attiya Shaukat, Leamington Spa Let the sunlight cover you. Say to your Lord, ‘My Allah, let me converse wholly with You’ Flower of mine, of gentle frame. Your name conjures a fragrance I retain.  I watched you from a sapling grow, Protected you from thunder and snow. No matter how strong the Earth’s winds blow.

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  • Mahrukh Arif-Tayyeb, Newcastle Giving birth is a unique experience – it can also be quite a solitary one. Women spend nine months carrying the little bundle of joy they are expecting: nine long months imagining his face, the sound of his voice, and the touch of his tiny little hands and feet. Everything is exciting

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  • Mahrukh Arif-Tayyeb, Newcastle Giving birth is a unique experience – it can also be quite a solitary one. Women spend nine months carrying the little bundle of joy they are expecting: nine long months imagining his face, the sound of his voice, and the touch of his tiny little hands and feet. Everything is exciting

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  • The Bared Heart

    Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool The author Debra Ginsberg said of motherhood that, “The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that – a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”[1] To me, this is certainly true. When I spent a portion of my childhood unwell,

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