Long Baby death Poems

She watched the demolition team enter her old school. In the next few days it would be raised to the ground. The end of an era she thought, Christ, it was depressing.
Suddenly a thought entered...

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A Certain Kind Of Death 

She was in love 
Their expression of it 
Was the perfection of it 
The way they shared 
What they had 
Was beyond compare
Today is the culmination 
Of their dedication 
Today...

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Gone and flushed out my life not through the simplicity of adoption,
But through another type of passing, this was my only option,
With no financial stability I lost all capability,
To care for you, they stripped you...

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Words
Like I’ve never felt the worst
Like I’ve never felt it hurt
You don’t know me now do you?

Ghosts 
Haunting brand new unused minds
Feeding on a soul alive
You’ve not felt it now do you?

Was a tough struggle,...

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My personal favourite

She ran; madly she ran,
asking for mustard seeds,
only some, a little,
a handful of mustard seeds
to cure her son.

She ran; madly she ran
from one house to another,
where none had ever died,
asking for mustard seeds,
from...

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I cradled his head in my arms and sang him a lullaby,
     cradling the  m o m e n t,
cherishing every second more,
       ...

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What if,
my sister Suzanne had not died on that snowy winter day
it was so pretty with the snow falling down and the icicles on trees
I stood holding my mother's hand waiting for Suzanne
we saw her...

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"Still Born"

Shh!! Mommy, quiet, quiet she is still sleeping
Shh!! Mommy, quiet, quiet she is off dreaming
Shh!! Mommy, before you wake her: “My baby sister!”

Now look what you have done, you gone and woke her!
Please, mommy...

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We dressed him in an ivory lace christening gown,
    That had been handed down generation to generation;
I asked my mother and grandmother if it was okay and they said yes,
  ...

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I know that I am dying, I am fading fast,
     my life is almost over, by tomorrow I will be dead;
and I find myself on a grave stone draped in quietus,
...

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I remember her funeral as if it was yesterday…instead of a long time ago.
I remember it was the first step…the beginning of letting go.

The moment we realized…like a summer breeze gently whistling through a tree…
the...

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there are moments that catch your breath, others that take it away, 
there are instances which you dread and others that you long to stay,
for the seconds that drag on to minutes,
for the never-ending strikes...

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Weeping shall never become a thing of past,
        I feel this heartache will always feel free to last.
When I can no longer stand the pain of loss's fear,
...

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8 weeks. The shortest 8 weeks of my life. You were growing inside me. You 
knew me. You depended on me. You changed my life. Did I let you down?

8 weeks. We developed a bond....

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What makes you human without your limbs,  
Human without your nose and toes – 
What makes you human without your ears  
Makes the unborn me human without your form. 
Yes, it’s my essence,...

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I can hear them from here 
Their wails and cries 
I can see their tears from here 
They are the babies I wasn't bold enough to birth 


Babies my stomach wasn't strong to carry 
Babies...

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Yo en la luz de la luna e mirado mi destino 
de las luces que a lo lejos van
marcando mi retorno
son las mismas que alumbraron
con sus palidos reflejos
 horas de dolor y sufrimiento 
y aunque...

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Sweet baby, I bought you a soft blanket -
vanilla with tender dots, a llama attached, 
to welcome you into this chilly world.

And darling girl, I whispered prayers for you,
on nights you spent in the dark...

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AN EPIC STORY- FICTION 

In a chase, she rode far east at the sun's wake,
the wind daintily throwing her wig as the horse tread
into black fields in dawn's glare,
stained red with a colour of her...

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I once got on my knees and begged my momma,
with tears in my eyes, please get an abortion.
I’ma end that thing inside before it even starts living.

Then one day my little sister was born,
and that’s...

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The Silent Cry

The silent cry - you might wonder - what is 
the silent cry? I tell you - It is the cry that 
no one can hear, but someone knows about it.

A young girl...

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The curtain of pain fell upon us as we stood,
at his tomb and snow kissed our quivering lips;
my voice was lead and it seemed I was made of wood,
the air cold chilled and I recall...

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I will never, ever forget that last sweet kiss,
while holding my baby boy to my beating heart;
then, I had to let him drift up to his abyss,
I would give my own life so that he...

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I find you in the place of tears baby,
You never saw the azure sky above;
Beneath the soil all these sad years,
I do not speak in words but thoughts.

     Only one word...

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I'd have whispered, "you're daddy's little boy,"
my everything, my bundle of joy.
We would have explored the cafes, parks, and glades,
snapping photos and improving your grades.
We would have gazed up at the stars above
feeling secure in...

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