Baby Loss Poems

I didn’t see her face.
you did!
I didn’t get to hear of sweet little girl voice.
You did!
I didn’t get to hear her say mommy and daddy!
You...

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Baby, it hurts when the night won’t sing,
When stars are cold and the wind takes wing,
I press my heart to the darkened pane,
And whisper your...

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Every picture I’ve seen of you as a child,
You wear your hair in plaits.
A stern middle parting and two dark brown braids
Falling down on each...

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I mend fence for a living,
but I ain’t fixed the one that matters.

The wire stretches out like a scar across this land,
and most days, my...

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I dreamed that snow fell on the hill,
while far below the sea was still;
it covered paths that we once knew
when I was so in love...

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I remember in every detail
the kitchen where my grandmother
worked while helping out 
at my uncle’s convenience store.
There was just a flimsy curtain
separating the living quarters;
a...

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Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ah-ah

Doom, accursed echos held in a miasmic gloom
Suffering and hatred, the vendetta against light
For mortals, war of heaven and hell eternal fight ...

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Today she left this earthly plane
Finally freed from depression and pain
My heart is heavy and I feel bereft
Only sixty five years; too soon she left

March...

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They said you’d never survive,
That there were complications with the pregnancy,
They told me it would be painful,
Yet they made you stay in my womb.

They said...

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baby ghost
wrinkles the river

I gaze 
at its drowsiness
as I masticate 
on the meanings of why
because inside me is misaligned 

and its cold, sleepy eye 
-...

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Gently as I whisper these words.
Gently as I say words left unheard.
Visions taunt me, sensations feel me.
Water drip between me leaving me panting.
Catch a kiss...

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I already understand that children  
grow inside two blinks,
as quickly as the novel Mayfly
comes to the surface to die. 

I'm pining for those first...

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At first, having you around was always a bummer.
You didnt leave me alone the entire  summer.

Now i know, that was just out of love....

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In her car, the woman in deeepest melancholy sat.
Rain falling, tears falling, splat!

She thought of those many days before.
With many a handsome suitor at...

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tiny shoes in a donation box—an unfinished dream

...

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