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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADOPTION Matches Found: 130 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACCEPTANCE, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: So child %there is a woman Last Line: Neither you nor I can know her name Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTED CHILD, by MADELEINE GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: To grow up in another family, a detour Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTED ONES, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: Your oldest son Last Line: Standing in the rain, looking in? Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTING FOR ONE'S OWN, by BARBARA FIALKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: The persent is a foreign country Last Line: Black as a lie, to a life %he's been denied Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION, by ANN FOX CHANDONNET Poem Source First Line: Two jehovah's witnesses in navy blue suits Last Line: Nice knives. %come cut me up Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION, by CAROL BURNES WESTON Poem Source First Line: It happened over night Last Line: That tangles %your long black hair Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 1. THE SEED, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I never thought it would be quicker Last Line: His eyes intense as whirlwind %the music he played me Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 10. THE MEETING DREAM, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: If I picture it like this it hurts less Last Line: Whether she'll underline first class %or have a large circle over her 'I's Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 2. THE ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I say to the man at the desk Last Line: Breathing air all the way down the corridor %to the glass cot %I push my nipples through Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 3. THE WAITING LISTS, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: The first agency we went to Last Line: I'm all for peace myself she says, %and sits down for another cup of coffee Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 4. BABY LAZARUS, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Land moves like driven cattle Last Line: She came in by the window %my baby lazarus %and suckled at my breast Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 5. THE TWEED HAT DREAM, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Ma mammy bot me oot a shop Last Line: Then we practise ballroom dancing giggling, %everyone thinks we're dead old-fashioned Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 5. THE TWEED HAT DREAM, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Today I ring the counselling agency in edinburgh Last Line: The mother who stole my milk teeth %ate the digestive left for santa Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 7. BLACK BOTTOM, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Maybe that's why I don't like Last Line: It says free angela davis. %and all my pals says 'who's she?' Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 8. GENERATIONS, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: The sun went out just like that Last Line: Watch the way she moves her hands %when she talks Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTION PAPERS: 9. THE PHONE CALL, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I have had my grandmother's highland number Last Line: Carrington discover he's not a carrington %any more. Daft. Getting myself into a tizzy Subject(s): Adoption ADOPTIVE FATHER, by BILL THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: I had to be approved to be a father Last Line: But I needed approval to be a father Subject(s): Adoption AGENCY POEM, by MARY ANNE COHEN Poem Source First Line: I was promised that they were told Last Line: To see yourself reflected %in your mother's eyes Subject(s): Adoption BEGINNING, by MALCOLM GLASS Poem Source First Line: Into the nbackbone of a sleet Last Line: How could he have known what held us? Subject(s): Adoption BEGINNING, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where have I come from, where did you pick me up? Last Line: What magic has snared the world's treasure %in these slender arms of mine? Subject(s): Adoption BENEDICTION, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bless this little heart, this white soul that has Last Line: Forget him not in your hurry, let him come to youyr heart and bless him Subject(s): Adoption BIRTHDAY, by SUE WESTRUM Poem Source First Line: It's my child's birthday today Last Line: The hurts she will have when she stops to think %that today is 'my child's birthday.' amen Subject(s): Adoption BIRTHDAY ODE TO WENDY, by SANDRA KAY MUSSER Poem Source First Line: How do I begin to say Last Line: This is the first one I can say %wendy, I love you! Subject(s): Adoption BLOODLINES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter puts her hand Last Line: Curled up, cocooned inside the sheet Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Adoption CHOSEN ONE, by VIRGINIA CAIN Poem Source First Line: You chose me to be your child Last Line: You gave me your name - you are my parent Subject(s): Adoption CLOSE SHAVE, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: The only time I forget is down the pit Last Line: When I'm down here I work fast so it hurts Subject(s): Adoption COMMUNITY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Almost no one in town calls this place a commune anymore, except Last Line: Older, manny plays catch with him almost every day. Then ben grows up, too Subject(s): Adoption; Boys; Friendship; Orphans; Stepmothers CONFESSION, by MARY ANNE COHEN Poem Source First Line: How can I tell you Last Line: Severance %of sacred tie Subject(s): Adoption CRADLE IS TOO SMALL FOR ME, by DAINNE DRILOCK Poem Source Last Line: Your eyes soak love into me Subject(s): Adoption DANCE OF THE CHERRY BLOSSOM, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Both of us are getting worse Last Line: There's nothing outside but the noise of the wind %the cherry blossom's dance through the night Subject(s): Adoption DAUGHTER, by PAM CONRAD Poem Source First Line: I studied you with my hands Last Line: Come, let me taste you once more Subject(s): Adoption DEATH TO POLL TAX, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: The doctor expects your mother to die Last Line: You are in my kitchen waiting. What time I ask? %eight o'clock you say. Sooner than they thought Subject(s): Adoption DOIN' TIME, by HELEN GARCIA Poem Source First Line: Sign the paper here Subject(s): Adoption DRESSING UP, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: My family's all so squalid Last Line: You look a bloody mess you do. %she had a black eye, a navy dress Subject(s): Adoption EARLY MORNING RITUAL WITH A NEWLY ADOPTED DAUGHTER, by NANCY CASH Poem Source First Line: In the muted light Last Line: And we begin again %inventing the temporary cord Subject(s): Adoption EASY WAY TO HAVE A CHILD, by PAT JOHNSTON Poem Source Last Line: There isn't an easy way Subject(s): Adoption FAMILY TREE, by JANE MERCHANT Poem Source First Line: I knew a cedar tree, when I was small Last Line: I'd say that cedar was our family tree Subject(s): Adoption FEW DAYS (MY ADOPTED-AWAY DAUGHTER TURNS EIGHTEEN), by ELIZABETH OMAND Poem Source First Line: In a a few days %I will be free Last Line: Not the other way around Subject(s): Adoption FIRST GRIEF, by MARGARET RAMPTON MUNK Poem Source First Line: Last night, my daughter - %mine by right of love and law Last Line: Then hid her face from me Subject(s): Adoption FIRST MEETING, by MIRIAM PROCTOR Poem Source First Line: He would have said Last Line: Of a ring-toy sliding back %and forth on a chain Subject(s): Adoption FOR ANTHONY: CHRISTMAS, 1964, by LOLA ZIERER BEIHL Poem Source First Line: For christmas gran must make a rhyme Last Line: It's there because we love you so Subject(s): Adoption FOR MY HUSBAND'S MOTHER, by ELLEN BASS Poem Source First Line: Those months I carried sara Last Line: If anyone ever %thanked her Subject(s): Adoption FOUNDLING, by PATRICIA STORACE Poem Source First Line: Ah-hah. %I am a magician's trick Last Line: I think: oh, arrow of birth, come fix me here Subject(s): Adoption FROM THAT POINT ON, by DIDI S. DUBELYEW Poem Source First Line: All I can remember about that day Last Line: I was from that point on %irretrievably alone Subject(s): Adoption GOLD BANGLES: FOR MY INDIAN DAUGHTER, by ERIKA MUMFORD Poem Source First Line: It is twelve years since I first put on Last Line: Gold from this distant country %of your birth Subject(s): Adoption HE TOLD US HE WANTED A BLACK COFFIN, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I phoned up the funeral director Last Line: The song he sang at the school concert %(what was it?) it doesn't seem that long ago Subject(s): Adoption HEART OF A CHILD IS A SCROLL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Give here but a message right, %for the heart of a child is a scroll Subject(s): Adoption HOW COULD THEY?, by W. STEVEN HOLLINGSWORTH Poem Source Subject(s): Adoption I AM A GHOST-WRITTEN BOOK, by ELIZABETH SEYDEL MORGAN Poem Source Last Line: Haunt every line Subject(s): Adoption I JUST GAVE BIRTH TO A SON, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: I yell to the desk clerk Last Line: Giving life to what it bears %each year Subject(s): Adoption I TRY MY ABSOLUTE BEST, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I give my kids pure apple juice Last Line: I say it's your pocket money, %do what you want with it Subject(s): Adoption I WOULD HAVE SEARCHED FOREVER, SELS., by ROSEMARIE GROSS Subject(s): Adoption IF ONLY YOU COULD KNOW, by ELAYNE D. MACKIE Poem Source First Line: My son sleeps in my arms now Last Line: If only you could know Subject(s): Adoption IN THE SEVENTH YEAR, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Our sea is still mysterious as morning mist Last Line: Over and over %clasping this timeless, this changing thing Subject(s): Adoption INTAKE INTERVIEW, by MARILEE RICHARDS Poem Source First Line: A closet size interview room, windowless Last Line: The door clangs behind them %like an echo in a cavern Subject(s): Adoption IS THIS THE DAY?, by DAWN NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Is this the day %that a brown-skinned woman Last Line: She loves, %and is loved Subject(s): Adoption IT USED TO EXCITE ME EVEN, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Standing at my bedroom window, breath on the glass Last Line: I imagine a person with 90 degree burns all over. %the hot tea starts to brew its own storm. I can't Subject(s): Adoption KINSHIP, by MARGARET RAMPTON MUNK Poem Source First Line: Why? %the white-haired matriarch demanded Last Line: That he is not my son. %he is my brother Subject(s): Adoption KITCHEN, by PAM CONRAD Poem Source First Line: How cum you got a white mother? Last Line: And I dry my hands alone Subject(s): Adoption LEGACY OF AN ADOPTED DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once there were two women Last Line: Just two different kinds of love Subject(s): Adoption LIGHTHOUSE WALL, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere beyond the thin lighthouse wall Last Line: Stretch of white sand is empty. The wind whips. %at last, I know this hand Subject(s): Adoption LITTLE SPIRIT TO CHILDLESS COUPLE, by CAROL LYNN PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Just helping you, mom and dad, to develop Last Line: Once I arrive Subject(s): Adoption LOST HISTORY, by DAWN NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Heredity is responsible for Last Line: Your sense of identity will come %in other ways Subject(s): Adoption MARY CASSATT'S MOTHERS AND CHILDREN, by LESLIE BROOKE Poem Source First Line: Mother, you were such a cliche Last Line: We could have lived it Subject(s): Adoption; Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Paintings And Painters MIGRATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year marie drives back and forth Last Line: Like the holy ghost that it is Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Adoption; Dead, The MOTHER MAY I, by MARCIA MASSCO Poem Source Last Line: I know I may, and need not ask you Subject(s): Adoption MOTHER OF MY CHILD, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: A baby fills my dream womb Last Line: To blot her growing hollow Subject(s): Adoption MOTHER OF RED JACKET TO HER SISTERS, SEPTEMBER, 1762, by PHILIP R. ST. CLAIR Poem Source First Line: They found him hiding in a den of rocks Last Line: Little owl, and when winds blew you from your nest %you came to me Subject(s): Adoption MOTHER'S DAY, by MARGARET RAMPTON MUNK Poem Source First Line: I am afraid %to plant this seed Last Line: And the gardener, %once more Subject(s): Adoption MUMMY AND DONOR AND DEIRDRE, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I went to school today Last Line: He gave me a monster munch. %tunde has the same thing to eat everyday Subject(s): Adoption MY BROWN DAUGHTER, by GRACE SANDNESS Poem Source First Line: Do you know who your mother is? Last Line: I know! Subject(s): Adoption MY CHILD WAS BORN TODAY, by ANGELA MCGUIRE Poem Source Last Line: Oh, who can understand the ways of life %when loss and love join hands? Subject(s): Adoption MY DAUGHTER'S DOWRY, by ARTHUR DOBRIN Poem Source First Line: This you inherit Last Line: African girl, %daughter of jerusalem Subject(s): Adoption MY DAUGHTER'S MOTHERS, by DAWN NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Your first mother took you Last Line: Have no need to wonder %at your anger Subject(s): Adoption MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSES 1, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: She is on the second floor of a tenement Last Line: Chewing for ages over the front page, %her toffees sticking to her false teeth Subject(s): Adoption MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSES 2, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: The new house is called a high rise Last Line: Flapping over me like missionaries, and that is that, %untilthe next time god grabs me in glasgow wi Subject(s): Adoption MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSES 3, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: By the time I am seven we are almost the same height Last Line: From her living-room you see ambulances, %screaming their way to the royal infirmary Subject(s): Adoption MY NAOMI, by ELIZABETH SEYDEL MORGAN Poem Source Last Line: I am ruth Subject(s): Adoption NOT FLESH OF MY FLESH, by FLEUR CONKLING HEYLIGER Poem Source Last Line: Under my heart - but in it Subject(s): Adoption NOT REALLY YOURS, SOME PEOPLE SAY, by VICKI ANDRES Poem Source Last Line: To take your child and share your soul %rips not apart, but makes a whole Subject(s): Adoption OH, LITTLE ONE, by ELLEN HYERS Poem Source Last Line: We have the promise of tomorrow %come, let us build a life together Subject(s): Adoption ON CHILDREN, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, speak to us of children Last Line: He loves also the bow that is stable Subject(s): Adoption ONE THE NIGHT OF ANDREW'S BIRTH, by MARGARET RAMPTON MUNK Poem Source First Line: Strange vigil, this Last Line: As unto her %our son is born Subject(s): Adoption OPTING FOR 'ME', by OPAL PALMER Poem Source First Line: Giving up my child %wasn't easy Last Line: Please understand %and love me still Subject(s): Adoption OUR CHILD, by CHRIS PROBST Poem Source First Line: Our child %can never be not yours Last Line: And in spirit closeness %share with you our child Subject(s): Adoption OUR GIFT, by NOREL C. WALDHAUS Poem Source First Line: We saw a child miles from home Last Line: A family unit - strong in love Subject(s): Adoption PHOTO IN THE LOCKET 1, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: There are things I don't tell her Last Line: She on mince and potatoes, drizzle, midges; %me on mealies, thunderstorms, chongalolas Subject(s): Adoption PHOTO IN THE LOCKET 2, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: Now I tell you almost everything Last Line: I laughed and cried like some huge %waterfall-giggling and howling Subject(s): Adoption PICTURE 254, by RICHARD STANIN Poem Source First Line: Flippantly, I turn Last Line: I never remember, ever, %you being apart from me! Subject(s): Adoption POUNDING RAIN, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: News of us spreads like a storm Last Line: Down the hills in the pounding rain, %screaming and laughing; soaked right through Subject(s): Adoption PRE-ADOPTION PICTURE, by ISAAC MOZESON Poem Source First Line: Infertility insured an equal maternity Last Line: With all that you have in the world Subject(s): Adoption PRELUDE, by ELAYNE D. MACKIE Poem Source First Line: It is happening again, my child-to-be Last Line: And a joyful symphony to share Subject(s): Adoption REFLECTION ON LOVE, by DAWN NEWELL Poem Source First Line: When I held my first-born Last Line: Who shyly took my hand %and agreed to be my daughter Subject(s): Adoption SEA POEM, by MARY ANNE COHEN Poem Source First Line: How are we tied? Last Line: The mermaid sings %only for you Subject(s): Adoption SEARCH FOR YESTERDAY, by DIDI S. DUBELYEW Poem Source First Line: You have denied em %my birthright Last Line: My insides still scatter %in a balmy wind's breath Subject(s): Adoption SEARCH: IDENTITY, IN, by MARIANNA F. GENTILE Poem Source First Line: If I let you %come inside me Last Line: Searching for a way home Subject(s): Adoption SEARCH: IDENTITY, OUT, by MARIANNA F. GENTILE Poem Source First Line: How can we find out Last Line: Are lost to our discovering Subject(s): Adoption SEVERE GALE 8: CARDBOARD, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: There was no bread; she collected jet Last Line: Out into the wind and watch them rise %over the odd remaining tree, past the tower block Subject(s): Adoption SEVERE GALE 8: NHS, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: There was no bread; he painted the sky Last Line: For that rare breed a doctor %who was by now almost a dinosaur Subject(s): Adoption SEVERE GALE 8: THE POUND, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: There was no bread; she made a sculpture Last Line: Some sat in their cars and died %listening to black box remix or desert island discs Subject(s): Adoption SEVERE GALE 8: THE THIRD HURRICANE, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: The wind was revolutionary; Last Line: All the way down to all the way down to %la la la la laughing Subject(s): Adoption SEVERE GALE 8: [POUNDS], by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: There was no bread so she told a story Last Line: Arrived with masks and put new pieces of plastic %in their pockets whilst they slept Subject(s): Adoption SIGNING THE ADOPTION PAPERS, by CARRIE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I stare into the overhead bulb Last Line: Of the social worker's pen, wherein %the lifelong dirge begins Subject(s): Adoption; Birth SILVAE: STATIUS CONSOLES ATEDIUS FOR THE LOSS OF HIS ADOPTED SON, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so death took him. Yet be comforted Last Line: And win thy parents back to thee again Alternate Author Name(s): Statius Subject(s): Adoption; Death - Children SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 121, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motherless baby and babyless mother Last Line: Bring them together to love one another. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adoption; Childlessness SOME MAY BE BORN THE WORLD WIDE WORLD APART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And read life's meaning in each other's eyes Subject(s): Adoption SONNET FOR MICHELLE (ON RECEIVING FINAL ADOPTION PAPERS), by BARBARA NECTOR DAVIS Poem Source First Line: You shine, michelle, like sun-sparks dazzle water Last Line: For you belong to us at last, michelle Subject(s): Adoption STEVIE DIDN'T HEAR, by GRACE SANDNESS Poem Source First Line: Black bastard!' Last Line: Stevie didn't hear Subject(s): Adoption STIFLED LOVE, by UNKNOWN+198 Poem Source First Line: I never saw you - oh, yes, once at a distance Last Line: I will always love you - but she is your mother Subject(s): Adoption STRANGER, by HARRIET GRAY BLACKWELL Poem Text First Line: I held him first when he was six weeks old Last Line: I shall have borne triumphantly a son. Subject(s): Adoption; Sons SUMMER STORM, CAPOLONA, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I choose to ignore my instinct for the sky's Last Line: Coming back much sooner with an %umbrella and another madeira cake Subject(s): Adoption THE ADOPTED CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wouldst thou leave me, oh! Gentle child? Last Line: "lady, kind lady! Oh, let me go!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Adoption; Women THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The TIGHTER IN THE WEAVE, by KIRK SHUSTER Poem Source First Line: The years of solitude were met Last Line: To father-mother I belong! %I'm tighter in the weave Subject(s): Adoption TO AN ADOPTED, by CAROL LYNN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: I %did not plant you Last Line: My harvest - %my own child Subject(s): Adoption TO JOHN-DAVID, by ROSEMARY BLEEKE Poem Source First Line: I wanted none, or so I thought Last Line: As when I first held you, my precious baby boy Subject(s): Adoption TO LEAH, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: I wear the evidence of your visit Last Line: This body is it Subject(s): Adoption TO MAMA (ON MY BIRTHDAY), by SUE BRANNAN WALKER Poem Source First Line: Where are you, woman? Last Line: Take your dollar %and drive away Subject(s): Adoption TO MICHAEL, BRIAN, RICKY AND SUSIE, by KATHY GARLITZ Poem Source First Line: Now you must leave, loves Last Line: Remember we care Subject(s): Adoption TO MY BIRTH MOTHER, by SHIRLEY GATES COCHRANE Poem Source First Line: Your womb opened Last Line: You opened your door Subject(s): Adoption TO MY FOSTER SON, by GERTRUDE S. FLICKINGER Poem Text First Line: Heed not the taunts of the other lads Last Line: Because you suited me. Subject(s): Adoption TRYING TO CONCEIVE #2, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: Whaddaya mean, mother nature? Nature's no mother Last Line: If nature were a mother, nature would be perfect Subject(s): Adoption UNDERGROUND BABY CASE, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: There was a couple of things Last Line: Eating my tiny baby up Subject(s): Adoption; Blacks WAITING FOR THE CALL, by SHELIA STEWART DARST Poem Source First Line: Everytime the phone rings now Last Line: Until the phone rings Subject(s): Adoption WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Bill is visiting on spring break. As we talk on the drive home form the Last Line: Get home in time to watch ourselves on the six o'clock news Subject(s): Abandonment; Adoption; Boys; Child Custody; Children - Illegitimate; Orphans; Stepfathers; Stepmothers WELCOME HOME, by MICHAEL F. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Tonight, as you lie sleeping Last Line: Forever %welcome home Subject(s): Adoption WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND MY MOTHER DIDN'T WANT ME, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father was killed and I never knew why Last Line: When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me Subject(s): Adoption; Death; Fathers; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships WHILST LEILA SLEEPS, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: I am moving in the dead of night Last Line: Leila tugs at my coat. I whisper %her cradle song and she holds on Subject(s): Adoption WHO LOVES ME?, by DELORIS SELINSKY Poem Source First Line: Who spawned me? I do not know Last Line: And made their name my own Subject(s): Adoption WHY THIS CHILD?, by LORI HESS Poem Source First Line: Words are like flowers in a summer field Last Line: Words sometimes don't tell us what blooms in the heart Subject(s): Adoption |
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