posting poetic prose
24 Jun 2023 2 Comments
in haiku Tags: abortion, fireflies
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fireflies in the corn
flicker their bright little lights
brief flights toward heaven
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On this 1st anniversary of the Dobbs case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, we remember the souls who’ve suffered abortion, both mothers and babies. Every little human life shines, however brief!
17 Apr 2023 21 Comments
in quadrille Tags: . woman, abortion
A 44-word “revolutionary” quadrille for dVerse where Kim is hosting…
i’m embarrassed by
feminists who whine for
equal “rights” to be like men,
to NOT give birth; who refuse
to protect and nurture the most
vulnerable little women but
demand “choice” to violate
sanctuary of their womb,
dishonoring womanly powers;
today, motherhood is revolutionary!
06 Jul 2022 4 Comments
in music poem, rhyming verse Tags: abortion, baby, free, lullaby
rock-a-bye baby in mother’s womb
how could you know it would become tomb?
life sacrificed for your mama’s choice
shouldn’t unborn women be given a voice?
abortion hurts mothers, it’s medical rape
dishonors the body’s natural landscape
increases breast cancer, depression, and grief
with memory haunted by pregnancy brief
unbridled abortion comes at high cost
sixty-three million lives have been lost
planned parenthood is a business of blood
fresh baby-parts market with organs to flood
we must do better in land of the free
abortion for life of the mother might be
but killing our offspring seems uncivilized
the life of each person be precious and prized!
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The practice of abortion is shrouded with euphemisms but let’s reconsider the harsh reality. Can you sing this without gagging? (tune of “Rock-a-bye Baby”).
30 Mar 2022 9 Comments
in haiku Tags: abortion, cherry blossoms, miscarriage, regrets
12 May 2020 2 Comments
in lament Tags: abortion, bureaucracy, churches, mortality, pandemic, porn
spirits sag sluggish
our attitudes apathetic
people lie dying but we
are numbed by numbers
so we adjust our masks
try to control catastrophe
normalize the abnormal
turn off doom of news
cannot shut out reality
of one’s own mortality
seems life is too short to
realize all our dreams
of apocalyptic nightmare
social events cancel
celebrations zoom in
at least we can distract
ourselves with technology:
mind games of (anti)social
media, victims of porn
big bureaucracy grows
as the economy slows
churches shut down
yet abortion services
considered essential
we truly are sick
05 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in haibun, question poem, Uncategorized Tags: abortion, culture, death, hate, violence
Awful week of three senseless public shootings by U.S. citizens at garlic festival in Gilroy CA, Walmart shopping center in El Paso TX, and popular nightclub neighborhood in Dayton OH.
We wonder why domestic terrorists perpetrate violence against unsuspecting victims? Why should innocent people die while enjoying their life? Why is our society spiraling down into a culture of hate and mayhem?
Why is it legal for mothers (whose nature is nurture) to pay doctors (whose profession is healing) to dismember their preborn infants? Why do fathers abandon or abuse their own children after conceiving them? Why do we insist our lives are superior and consider other lives expendable? Why not choose to love and protect one another, starting with our family?
Perhaps there is some connection here, an unnatural progression from selfishness, disrespect, broken relationships and alienation into a macabre culture of death. The shooters are guilty of crimes against humanity but we are all culpable.
killing on home turf
abortion births death culture
all victims bleed red
23 Jan 2019 23 Comments
in free verse, lament Tags: abortion, choice, daughter, option, viable
desperate now
no real choice
no viable option
he’d already left her
she birthed other babies
what else could she do
but have child removed?
…the one she’d never celebrate
Abortion is a tragedy to grieve, not an occasion to celebrate. Author Leslie Leyland Fields writes an open, compassionate letter to “celebrants” of abortion here.
05 Dec 2017 17 Comments
in quadrille Tags: abortion, death, infant, life, mother
how long believe
blind rhetoric?
why hire doctors
to do harm?
instrumental rape
violates mother with child
what kind of ghastly
choice is offered?
by salt poisoning, chemicals,
or crunch of infant skull
when will men honor
mothers’ calling?
where have hope’s
children gone?
Linking with dVerse Poets quadrille prompt…sorry this topic is neither pleasant nor Christmasy. Yet our brokenness and sin is why Christ came…as an infant to a poor, young woman in seemingly scandalous circumstances. Would we have aborted Jesus?
21 Apr 2017 15 Comments
in free verse Tags: abortion, baby, girl, rights, woman
Joining Real Toads in Imaginary Garden today on the theme: “I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream” -title by Harlan Ellison
unborn baby girl
dodging abortion’s
sharp instruments
has mouth but
voice not heard
muffled in womb
unsafe sanctuary
tiny life unwanted
no fault of her own
they shout about
women’s rights,
“now let me grow
into a woman
strong, nurturing
seasoned in love —
help! it’s got me!
torn me…bleeding”
hear silent scream
22 Jan 2017 5 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: abortion, blood, innocent, life
legalized forty-four years
america’s future aborted
innocent blood on our hands
it’s mechanical/chemical rape
woman’s womb was sacred space
innocent blood on our hands
complications may occur
unplanned barrenhood results
innocent blood on our hands
abortionists get filthy rich
take advantage of desperate girls
innocent blood on our hands
would not dissect live puppies
yet traffic baby body parts
innocent blood on our hands
dark path of sexual revolution
strips all human lives of dignity
innocent blood on our hands
six million Jews in holocaust
almost sixty million unborn children
innocent blood on our hands
a poem in my pocket 
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