Baby Narrative Poems

In the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time....

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He awoke, dazed and confused as to where he was, trying to remember whether it was day or still night. A dull ache seeped from...

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I would say I miss you

But I never got to meet you

I got to hold you

But I never got to see your smile,

I got to...

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The bird brigade has been summoned.
The empathy princess is down. Completely depleted of all energies, through ridiculously and blatantly giving too much of herself to...

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A heavy quietness hung 
as I waited with Mum and Dad 
and Chloe.
I professed my sympathy, 
my sorrow.
Their response was emptiness 
unexpressed;
while Chloe, hugged 
her...

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To open a conversation
“Is it a boy or a girl?”
seemed safe.
Safe until the moment
Mum paused before saying;
“We don't know.”
Blank:
I was neutered.
Space opened – if not...

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Her back to me, she gazed transfixed
at the poplars through the window.
Should I intrude? Then she turned full,
	full of tears.
I'd seen her before, masked and...

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She stopped smiling as soon as she picked up the subtle slow opening of the front door.  Jake, her grown up three-year-old stopped playing....

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Exactly thirty years ago 
I was a nervous wreck
As I nervously walked through the corridors of the hospital 
Not knowing what to expect 
As each...

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In the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time....

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As I kissed her ever so softly 
She melted in my arms 
She smiled
 
I kissed her toe-tips
And than I kissed her wee nose 
She...

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At 24:00  O’ Clock  of the stars,
When the tides are clapping to 
The pressure of her contractions.
 Louder is the agony her painful...

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A State Called Regardless

There had been no births in the family
for 30 years
no one knew how to put on a diaper
with two pins
old relatives marveled...

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I had to get out from behind the wall so that my spirit could grow tall
I had...

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I had no clue it was Valentine’s Day
Because no one said happy Valentine’s Day
I had no clue it was valentines’ Day
Because I had no one...

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Cardboard box compassion,
canned love with a cadaver expiration date
Sub-contract the morgue delivery,
charge a mob fee that’s double the going vig rate
Profit from scapegoating the poor...

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The race of the baby is not apt to last long!
Bare foot upon an ancient trail;
But now and then an elder sets the course.
The dignitaries...

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It was a hot summer day.  Harry had stopped by Grandma's house and offered to take the two little girls down to the store...

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He lies, warm and straight; unmoving.
Free from pain in his transitionary world;
safe within a love that shared his body and mind.
Without her altruistic and unyielding...

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Our Son
You are a product of the Son and the Moon
Come listen to my truest thoughts 
My truest feelings
All my poems are written as part...

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