Child Death Poems

Black Dog 2

Mary was a single Mom;
Her stress was very great.
Sometimes her kids ate crackers,
And sometimes the rent was late.

Black Dog! What’s your purpose?
Why are...

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I'm afraid that your child needs multiple surgeries, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
  (Holding back tears): Doctor, what are the odds that our Jessica will...

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Somewhere

Somewhere tonight a child is crying;
Crying in soft, muffled tones.
Crying for the hurt in his belly;
A Babe without a home.

Somewhere tonight I am thinking,
In some...

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Tides of Life


Thoughts of my heart flowed out as tears,
The future ahead holds lots of fears.
As I alone walked down that memory lane,
I felt nothing...

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Alan Kurdi lies on the beach
Like autumn’s fallen leaf
Seagulls soar in the sky
Singing a song of grief

His eyes are bright pools
Swimming in the deep
Are forgotten...

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Jenny

Soft brown eyes that looked at me;
And quiet was her room.
She nestled in the soft white sheets.
Like a baby in a womb.
Then Jenny smiled.

She lived...

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Death’s cosmic cryptic child Edgar Allan Poe
Whose spirit danced and was drenched in woe
Words were his secular style shields
Sugar skull sentences steam today in forever...

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Child lying
In a deep pallor
Looking out of a balcony
The last greeting
To island nature

Sunset is preparing
To surrender to the darkness
The gloomy and regal laurel
And the flight...

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One Thousand Goodbyes

Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on...

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True stories are often the saddest, so go to another poem if you 
are afraid of this one.
Seventy-five years ago a Mommy died leaving a...

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Tomorrow looms like no other,
each year no less than before,

bringing back pain of separation.
Doctors could not explain,

my body never complained,
until that day when the pregnancy...

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Jazmine Barnes
A child so young
Shot down dead
By a strangers gun

Just off for coffee 
Mama and her pride
A man in a pickup
Pulls up to their side

Mama...

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I went searching for-
that little child who cuddled in her mother's arms, 
those tender feet that jumped in rain, 
that little heart which melted for...

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Sunshine child, 
Baby boy, 
Blue hair, 
Bright skin, 
Sleeping tight, 
A forever resting dream. 

Moonlit child, 
Grown up man, 
Gray hair, 
Pale skin, 
Waking up,...

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C
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Cancer strikes terror in people.

Awful prognosis, scars a family.

Nasty disease that hurts and kills many.

Children should be immune, but they are not.

Everyone thinks they know,...

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The Life of Death

When the leaf 
Began it's new journey
Cascading through the air
As it fell from the limb
Of the tree,
It was not death
Within its embrace,
Nor...

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My morning pierces my awake with grief’s thrust -
hitting me anew with the truth that he is gone.

Rising, I stagger thru cloudy bruises of disbelief
that...

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Winter takes in its arms weeping stars as dawn draws in.
The sky turned from black to a steel gray; 
snow rest upon the roof tops...

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She agreed to sex not to life
It grows in her, not in your knife
Dreams like flowers die and wilt
Sprouting from him is dick and milk

Cookies...

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She claims he drove too fast;
He says she was too careless.
But the damage is already done,
And their only son is long dead!

Nothing truly is more...

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