a world of many children
...A World of many children
I read about people going to the dentist
getting shiny white teeth like Joe Biden
In Portugal, the white teeth craze is relaxed
The thought of an actress with per...
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Categories:
childlessness, age, allusion, america,
Form: ABC
a world of many children
...A World of many children
I read about people going to the dentist
getting shiny white teeth like Joe Biden
In Portugal, the white teeth craze is relaxed
The thought of an actress with per...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
childlessness, age, allusion, america,
Form: ABC
The voice I once forgot was mine
...I was married,
but to me, it wasn’t marriage.
It was poverty-induced—
a fate sealed by hunger and silence.
I was an orphan,
taken in by my mother’s brother—
the uncle who accepted
that I cou...
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Categories:
childlessness, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Narrative
curse and blessing
...
childlessness, a curse ~
heart cracks,
oozes tears of frustration
children, a blessing ~
prayers answered,
experiencing joys of faith
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Categories:
childlessness, blessing, children, cry, prayer,
Form: Verse
Letter To My Unborn
...Though my heart was broken because I never knew you, my unborn, unknown, unfamiliar thought, the one that was much more than an inkling, yet never as familiar as the whisper of a hope. Though I longe...
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Categories:
childlessness, baby, beautiful, birth, blessing,
Form: Haibun
She Can'T Bear It
...WOMAN YOU ARE INFERTILE
what a mess
she can guess how poor old sarah felt before the angel relented and
implanted isaac
DONT WORRY DEAR he said WHAT'S FORTY YEARS OF PAIN?
YOU'RE ALL GOD'S CHILD...
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Categories:
childlessness, anger, baby, birth, body,
Form: Free verse
Ode To African Child
...Oh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal
Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beau...
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Categories:
childlessness, africa, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Pain of Mockery
...I pray to thee to remove reproaches,
Day after day I shed tears on my bed,
Sadness doubles for all their approaches,
Tired of poisonous words which I`m been fed,
poverty and joblessness bite so har...
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Categories:
childlessness, day, life, me, sad,
Form: Terzanelle
The Childless
...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 b...
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Categories:
childlessness, confusion, faith, sympathy, heart,
Form: Free verse