Stillborn Poems - Poems about Stillborn

...Words left borrowed heavy on the heart Actions defaulting stillborn and dark Pawning the foundling orphan on loan Love unbequested — dying alone (Dreamsleep: April, 2024) ......Read the rest...

...Glass hearts shattering From birth to death instantly Stillborn seems to dream......Read the rest...

... Could always feel the threat in the air, When a bad storm was gathering fast. Soon heavy clouds would conquer the fair, And hold them captive in their firm grasp. Thunder like huge kettle dru......Read the rest...

...Love in the forenoon It was a struggle, a poem insisted on giving birth I refused and insisted on abortion, as I no longer write poetry, when she stood in the doorway of my study, asked what I......Read the rest...

...Dull thud of daylight, I trust you Boredom, I welcome you I dare catch my bitter eyes in the mirror Warm solidity recognizing myself within I am not happy But I exist Have you ever rejected the......Read the rest...

...Self-Portrait 1-12-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels Still life, not stillborn, With a woman’s face In dus......Read the rest...

...My brother went to limbo Stillborn and unbaptized Faultless but Original Sin Status unknown A soul in liminal space Lost between heaven and hell Damnation spared Salvation denied Consigned......Read the rest...

...Maybe I seek meaning in the press of sympathetic eyes Maybe within me resides a cancerous longing to shatter into a million tiny pieces Maybe I will finally matter once tragedy razes the last vesti......Read the rest...

...I've made promises to survive before To those I'd never see again To those who couldn't keep it themselves To those who don't know I exist And here I am on the other side of 27 Having known th......Read the rest...

...Appreciating Perseus' heroic standard, I attempt to be not momentary Apogee is meaningless, if consciousness, lies in a mortuary Enshrined a star flickers among all, fading, becoming a constellatio......Read the rest...

... the stillborn baby, gone- then mother too; wrapped arms 'round my unborn child. ......Read the rest...

...Feeling sluggish, shelled. Lithely lingering in the dust and grime. Palette grey and dull, devoid of crisp bright hues, Brushes all furry, frayed, blunt, incapable of fine detail. Apathy and comp......Read the rest...

... June 7/2023 Miracle Man Early morning thoughts come and go with haste, and when birthed on paper most are ink I waste. Thoughts are often silenced before words are born, and as thou......Read the rest...

...We said goodbye the night we met fate our child to bear Star crossed love in orphaned time betrothed stillborn —affair (Dreamsleep: May, 2023)......Read the rest...

...As I closed my door and lay down to sleep, A poem came and violently knocked at my door. Being quite late, I put a rein on my desire to admit it in Even in my sleep I could hear the fa......Read the rest...