poetry & writings

“When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength…”

--Isidore Ducasse


Welcome to the Lifemothers.com poetry & writings page! All poems are on this page by permission of the authors. If you'd like to use their work, please contact the authors. If you'd like to submit a poem or adoption-related writing for consideration, just drop me a line. The poem doesn't have to be written by a Lifemom, but must be about a Lifemom. Submit a lifemother-related poem or writing to Skye!

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writer's bliss

The Words We Use
Broken Promises
Why I Chose Lifemother
While You Were Sleeping
Burial
Contact Termination
All the Little Things
Questions
Richard James
Scarred by Adoption
Happy Birthday
Dreaming
The Long Ride Home
Pink Baby
Adoption for Medical Professionals
Forever in my Heart
Altered Dreams
Child's Choice
Alone
About a Girl
Forever With Me
The Letter
My Daughter's Heart
Dakota
Sacrifice
Time
Waiting
For my Birthfather
Flight of the Heart
My Mother's Voice
Signature of my Heart
Understand
The Mailbox
If My Soul Had Eyes
Ghost
My Love For You
I Will Always Remember
All I Promised to Do
My All
Absent From my Hands
Is There Still Coercsion in Adoption?
A Birthmother's Heart
A Reunion Imagined
Candles
A Part of Me
It Does Me Good
Haiku
Moses' Mother
I Wonder About the Girl
Different Paths
Where Has the Time Gone?
Surrendered
The Forgotten One
Another Man's Crimes
I Relinquished ...Then I Kept
On the Wings of a Prayer -- Skye's Favorite
I Wish You Knew
For the Best
Sharing
Letting Go
This Mother's Cry
A Little Part of Me
Empty Arms
Birthmother on Capitol Hill
In the Storm
Wondering
To Give You the Stars
Natural Mother's Lament
Labors of Love
Journey to the Valley
Tiny Footprints -- Featured Poem
If I Could Change One Thing About Adoption Today
Legacy of Your Birthmother
An Openly Adopted Child's Legacy
The Artist
What I Wish My Child's Adoptive Mom Knew
Heartless
The Last Hour
Uninformed
Say Good-bye
Universe
Angels in Disguise
I Can't Sleep
Our Family
No One's Home
Rainy Days
How Do I Explain
A Window to the Heart of a Mother
Beyond
The Baby, The Boy
... to write is to heal