Long Bassinet Poems

Molly had just awoke from a
Nap when Damian rang her bell
Carrying Damian Junior. "Hey
Damian." She had to be calm for 
The Baby's sake. He placed
DJ in a small bassinet that he
Brought with him.  Then...

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When I Consider Life

As a baby, I was laying in my bassinet when a rifle bullet was shot through
 our living room window and passed through right under my bassinet not hitting me. 
 ...

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When I Consider Life Without You

As a baby, I was laying in my bassinet when a rifle bullet was shot through  our living room window and passed through right under my bassinet not hitting...

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What say you naive with all your poultice,
                     foolish fervor to your reverie!?”
“Mark me damned...

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Innocence of a newborn baby remains just that. 
The time of beginnings turned into an ending of 
sorrow and reminders of a lost soul. In a third world 
country Maria had just been born. A...

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I am taking care of my 11-month-old grandson. I love every-minute and he's stolen my heart. I've seen the growth within him with lots of love and affection he gets. He is crawling and into...

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My poor vocabulary babies 
are gon missing
Tell me kind sir, have you seen them?

Us etymological mothers to
lingual children of lost former meaning,
we are milk carton crying

Many hotline tips 
that the academia search party
have been receiving,
unfortunately,...

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....I ALWAYS used to feel like I was swinging in a hammock on a warm spring 
afternoon... 

....enjoying a long moment that seemed to made for me...
...slowly swinging...

...the minutes drawing me closer into unity with...

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Seven generations walked through your door,
Which stood so strong and always welcomed in.
You said goodbye when boys headed to war,
Two soldiers lost to battles they can’t win.

Your kitchen always busy as a bee,
With canning, baking...

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Look what you found in the classified ads,
while looking for that needle in a haystack
A Little Mermaid bassinet and baby stroller set
Puppies with adorable eyes, and vintage eight tracks ... 
obsolete technology from another time
Just...

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Abandoned baby on the doorstep,
	    a post-partum 
        depression delivery

Pitter-patter sound of feet running away
Binocular scissors
cut the umbilical cord emotionally

Driving in the morning rain
to nowhere...

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An infant's cry has an Elysian ring,
endearing the late-night hour.
A tiny, yet rattling, distinct sound, 

impinges a young mother's weary body.
Joyously awakened, she follows her heart,
as a newborn angel softly calls.
 
Rest will evade for...

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She waits,
eight black spindles joined at one end by a pivot, a compass.
Each pinpoint balanced at the intersections
of self-drawn polygons.
Legs jointed like the fingers of a skeleton,
deft, dexterous as a harpist.
Body in two sections with...

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I wait for you in the moonlight
In the quiet of the night
Within this room that holds
So many moments of your life

The dreams you've dreamed
Still linger here 
Between these flower-papered walls
That look beyond the window
At the...

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God’s Adoption Plan…….
When our Lord has a plan……..we surely don’t know what it is…
Yet, if we seek the help; we will certainly know it is “His”.
Many times, we think the DNA, is a very important...

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Denial is a can of peas
whose contents
should never be indulged
beyond the expiration date.
Yet there I stood, 
evidence screaming reality
at my eyes, their gaze steadfast
upon the wailing baby girl 
before me in her bassinet.
My mind then...

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I had a cat, a large one
I thought I loved the cat
The cat thought he loved me too!

Then, one day,
They took the cat away
The cat, with the bassinet, the little furry presence
And Sameeha’s science club...

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                   Approach of Wind, it chills 
in a particular way. 
Unexplainable, how it carries in competing tandem,...

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Confessing and Blessing

Have heard about hopes and fears of all the years
Along with many cheers followed by happy tears
But what if it was you who was afraid instead?
And tears were of sadness which you do...

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Wondering the aisles 
In search of the perfect bassinet
Choosing between the wood and the metal
Selecting the perfect theme of it all

Then out of nowhere a loud bang 
Silence then another pop
What in the world is...

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We’re joyful of the bassinet,
And fearful of the casket.
One, a place where life is new,
The other where the body’s through.
Bassinets, though temporary
Start a life’s eternal tarry.

Bassinets reveal new birth,
And caskets case a family’s mirth.
In bassinets,...

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I love the smell of fresh cut wood. Did you know that? I bet you didn’t know.
Why would you?
You never asked.
Wooden hearts dangling over a baby’s bassinet.
Be not hard like my wooden heart, chipped as...

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I know I should not whine or frivolously fret, 
but I believe I have lost my pet marmoset.
I have also lost a blue barrette, a red tea set, 
and a beautifully carved purple aigrette.
They all...

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Come See Our New Baby

By Elton Camp

Joe and Meg gave us an excited call
“We’ve something great to tell y’all.”

“Our plans have met with success.
A new baby our home does bless.”

“The adoption’s complete—legally done.
Caring for Mitzi...

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I dreamt I was in a church,
I was walking up to the candlelit altar.
There were clergy garbed in vestments,
whether they were Catholic or Episcopal,
I don't recall.
A mourning Mass was about to begin.
I approached an open...

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