Best Childless Poems

There's a name for me
Involuntary childless
And I can't escape this
It's everywhere I look
Being an involuntary childless
Made my pain too real
It's everywhere I go
Stalking me like an unwanted lover
Under the sheets
Creeping up when asleep
Dreaming a fat belly, glowing perfectly

I cried a day I suppose 
I expect...

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Sijo 3 

               it’s so pitiful to watch/the childless woman go there
                 with no baby...

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The Childless

The childless are not only those
That has not protruding stomach experienced
However, they are part of it

The childless are not only those
That theirs’ fell like a leaf eaten by maggot
Yet they make up this group

The childless are not only those
Whose offspring cross the seas?
And have...

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The Childless Mother

You once had a mother 
And how was she?
She was gentle, kind and caring,
As gracious as could be.

And you?
You played house,
You dressed your dolls,
You took them for walks in their prams
You gave them their bottles,
And you rocked them to sleep.

But now, you know,
You’ll...

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Somewhere,
Under a savage sun,
A sterile plane sleeps
In sad spoil, the storms
Recoil in stiff silence
As sand serpents sweat
To non-existence.
The explorer’s lens
Can not collect its far shores,
Where, he’s left to suspect, 
A brimming river flows.    
Not a tool can tell
His escape. No utensil to
Turn...

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Epigrams/Epitaphs

Childless
by Michael R. Burch

How can she bear her grief?
Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight
of one fallen star.

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Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch 

Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death is a mystery, we cry
when one is gone, our numbering...

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There was once a childless donkey
she desired a baby of her own womb
she sat and thought all day and all night

“I know I do not have eggs in my womb
why can’t I borrow eggs from chicken
If I swallow them I will become pregnant.” 

Chicken took...

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None rankle me like a parent so blind,
  he or she that see what they choose to see.
O readers, I beg of that rudest kind
  must they breed so damn prolifically?
A time to be seen, a time to be heard,
  such should...

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A Blossoming fig splashed with sunlight to paint it Green,
rooted the earth against the winds,
branches stretched
Abroad,

To cool with the breeze, traveling stems,
fresh leaves on, like wig
on a lawyer's yet 
childless its
bore,

though chastised by its season,
and caressed
by nature.

He traveled from afar to get close to it
Bathed...

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Having a child is a blessing and not by efforts or will and wealth
Neither by only health and strength
It’s like the air that all the time blows
Towards any direction it pleases, it blows
Having children is fun
But comes when it is timed to come like the...

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The sad problem was Hannah's ova.
Once they form a baby tears over:
Goal which had made her man rover
Around good clinics now hover...

Placed on Tiger nut and Guava
Locked semen is opened Louvre

Then, Doctor traced cause to Hannah,
Soon after return from Ghana
And it was a blow: Hammer,
From...

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You say you went childless,
  so where are your riches?

All wrapped up in numbers
  or locked in a vault

You say you went childless,
  but where is your fortune?

You’ve already been forgotten
  —your grave has been robbed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)...

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The  childless future

The modern way of living has made us soft
we forget life is a struggle to survive 
when we are safe and have reached the
top of the pyramid, the long view that is 
short and has in its grasp emptiness
with no more mountains to climb,...

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Every month, ovulating
Yearning, breathing in and out
In and out, breathing – inhaling
Exhaling, panting, gasping
Yearning, begging, pleading
Please, God, please!

Every month, echoing
The past months, the years
The tears adding up, rivers
Of yearning, hopes shattered
Moons coming and going, 
Hearts breaking, interrupting
The prayers for a small cry,

Every month, praying, praying
Imploring...

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