What great literature has been missing: Abortion poetry!!!

[Mary Ann]

vixengrl (2,617 posts)

In the Poetry Forum, I wrote a Trilogy about Abortion Rights

from three perspectives of reproductive rights denial to women in need.

Too many of the assumptions regarding female fertility rests on the promise of children, not the strength and nurturing abilities of women not just to our own progeny, but to anyone at all. Our ability to "mother" or "parent" is a skill that we can learn and develop outside of our biological "destiny". In the meantime, the understanding that our physical viability as parents isn't the first and last word of our existence should be recognized. And even a truncated view of our history should be inspected.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113911911

Here is one of them:

vixengrl (2,617 posts)

Her Body Migrant

They wanted her
here--
there,
back down,
thirteen,
no hope,
prisoner
used, traded.
Tool.

Dreams:
nightmares only.
Freedom denied
and penetration
guaranteed.
Stolen life
a story
of transit-points
and bargains
and sometimes,

she was the chip.

This seed
that tastes like shame

holds a body in bounds,

and would you dare bargain for her
freedom with indifference to her
life--and

not call this thing "rape"?

Make her body the place
you sink in your
staff and wave your
merry flag? A fish and a cross?

**** yourself.

Her body is her proof.
Let her have her freedom.

And leave your beady little conscience
to its worrying stones.
She bore her cross
why should she bear
a crown of thorns?

Her body is not your business to shame
but the burden you
need
to know.

And if you do not dare--
speak no more of her fate
anywhere,
slink down from your place;
for you have no right to
judge
what you would
not face.
Her body,
and the sanctity of its life.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11993384

A review by the poet laureate of the DUmp!!

Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (115,174 posts)
1. It's lovely; thank you! K&R

      

[Big Dog]

Blink, blink, blink.

[SVPete]

There's a poem missing:

My life began:

Warm;

Safe.


Mom,

Why did you

Kill me?

[Gina]

Suck Suck
Snip Snip
Oh what a relief it is
to kill a life
that deserved a chance.

[Carl]

Bloodthirsty savages.

[SVPete]

Suck Suck
Snip Snip
Oh what a relief it is
to kill a life
that deserved a chance.

Better add a copyright notice to that post, Gina! I could see PP or some other abortuary chain stealing the first three lines and using them as a jingle in ads, sung by Kermit Gosnell and George Tiller bobble-heads.

[FlaGator]

There once was a hooker named Sasha....

[freedumb2003b]

Abortion Haiku:

Dummies kill babies
Dummies should be aborted
Retroactively

[obumazombie]

Roses are red,
So are abortions.