टपोरले पोट, जीवाची साखळी, माऊली...Sophie Starzenski's Mother In Progress

Today December 1 2014 is 105th Birth Anniversary of B S Mardhekar (बा.सी.मर्ढेकर)

I have named the following untitled (BSM never gave titles to any) beautiful Marathi poem of Mardhekar  as

 'A Hymn to Her Journey: Girl to Mother':

"पोरसवदा होतीस
कालपरवांपावेतों;
होता पायांतही वारा
कालपरवांपावेतों.

आज टपोरले पोट,
जैसी मोगरीची कळी;
पडे कुशीँतून पायीं
छोट्या जीवाची साखळी.

पोरसवदा होतीस
कालपरवांपावेतों;
थांब उद्याचे माऊली,
तीर्थ पायांचे घेईतों."

(courtesy: current copyright owner the late poet's family)

[Poem no 27 from 'Kanhee Kavita' (कांही कविता)]

("You're childlike
until yesterday or day-before;
there was wind beneath your feet
until yesterday or day-before.

Today belly has grown,
like a Jasmine bud,
from limbs falls at feet
a string of  tiny life.

You're childlike
until yesterday or day-before;
hold tomorrow's mother,
I drink holy water of washing of your feet.)

(My apologies for poor translation...)

Daily Mail, UK on October 9 2013: 

"Argentinian-born Sophie Starzenski documents her pregnancy in photos 

Pictured from week 4 through to week 40 and then finally with her two-month-old son, Simon"

 courtesy: Ms. Sophie Cetaceans and Daily Mail, UK