ABORTION POEMS

Life Cycles

she realized
she wasn't one
of life's winners
when she wasn't sure
.....

Nikki Giovanni

Accordion

Some carol of the banjo, to its measure keeping time;
Of viol or of lute some make a song.
My battered old accordion, you're worthy of a rhyme,
You've been my friend and comforter so long.
.....

Robert Service

Rembrandt To Rembrandt

(AMSTERDAM, 1645)


And there you are again, now as you are.
.....

Edwin Arlington Robinson

My Mother's Body

1.

The dark socket of the year
the pit, the cave where the sun lies down
.....

Marge Piercy

The Pantomime Super To His Mask

Vast empty shell!
Impertinent, preposterous abortion!
With vacant stare,
And ragged hair,
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

Good And Evil.

Good thoughts, 'tis said, are no more than good dreams
Save they be into action put, and that
On opportunity depends. Alas!
If place and power cohered, what good were done
.....

Robert Crawford

The Dunciad: Book I

The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings
The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings,
I sing. Say you, her instruments the great!
Called to this work by Dulness, Jove, and Fate;
.....

Alexander Pope

Glove, The

(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.)

``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis,
``Distance all value enhances!
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Robert Browning

Spleen (ii)

J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans.

Un gros meuble à tiroirs encombré de bilans,
De vers, de billets doux, de procès, de romances,
.....

Charles Baudelaire

Accordion

Some carol of the banjo, to its measure keeping time;
Of viol or of lute some make a song.
My battered old accordion, you're worthy of a rhyme,
You've been my friend and comforter so long.
.....

Robert William Service

Nature's Law: A Poem

LET other heroes boast their scars,
The marks of sturt and strife:
And other poets sing of wars,
The plagues of human life:
.....

Robert Burns

Angered Reason

Angered Reason walked with me
A street so squat, unshapen, bald,
So blear--windowed and grimy--walled,
So dismal--doored, it seemed to be
.....

Robert Laurence Binyon

The Dunciad: Book I.

The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings
The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings,
I sing. Say you, her instruments the great!
Called to this work by Dulness, Jove, and Fate;
.....

Alexander Pope

Millenial Hymn To Lord Shiva

Earth no longer
hymns the Creator,
the seven days of wonder,
the Garden is over â??
.....

Kathleen Jessie Raine

Nature's Law. - A Poem Humbly Inscribed To G. H. Esq.

"Great nature spoke, observant man obey'd."
Pope.


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Robert Burns

The Glove

PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.)

``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis,
``Distance all value enhances!
.....

Robert Browning

Our Grandmothers

She lay, skin down in the moist dirt,
the canebrake rustling
with the whispers of leaves, and
loud longing of hounds and
.....

Maya Angelou

The Child That You Are Carrying

The child that you are carrying is not a plaything.
It is a human being like you and me.
And life is very precious to the Creator.
The marvels of conception are beyond our comprehension.
.....

Marlon Pitter

The Dunciad:[234] Book The First

TO DR JONATHAN SWIFT.


ARGUMENT.
.....

Alexander Pope

I Am Unique

I do everything in my way
I write poems in my way
I render poems in my way
Because I'm beautiful,
.....

Unanne Ngobeli

Lines Written During The Castlereagh Administration

1.
Corpses are cold in the tomb;
Stones on the pavement are dumb;
Abortions are dead in the womb,
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Pantomime "super" To His Mask

Vast empty shell!
Impertinent, preposterous abortion!
With vacant stare,
And ragged hair,
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

Every Woman Is A Mother

Shouting out to those who adopted kids,
Sincerely apologies to those who went through miscarriages.
I cannot forget those who carried a child nine months,
Those who gave birth prematurely.
.....

Charles Frimpong Nana Kofi

What Happening To This World

What's happening to this world
Kwenzakalani ku lomhlaba
This world of ours
Children go missing everyday
.....

Gaolatlhwe Mokhasi