Little Grape

The loss of an unborn child ~ miscarriage the great taboo, I write this for my 1st lost Grandchild and my beautiful daughter who has lost her first baby recently, sometimes I just want to scream.

Little Grape
I don't need
to see your face,
or the span of your tiny hands
clasping the empty air,
I don't need to hear the stretch of your hungry lungs
unsettling whimsical dust
or feel the whisper of your breath
gently caressing my bowed neck,
I don't need to touch your downy skin,
smooth over tiny bones,
or silky, fair hair
covering your delicate fontanel.

No, I only need to know
how much I love you.
You rest within.
Under my skin.
Inside my heart
that still beats against all the odds.

Little Grape
the magpies were wrong
and there is no God,
only sorrow for your loss
seems to beat on,
and the shape
of my soul morphs
tattered, fragmented.

Incroyable
my history book
stuck on repeat
sucks.


 

Reviews

[barleygirl]

Normally, I'm not very good with symbolic poetry like this, but I think I've got it! To me, this sounds like the narrator is speaking to the embryo within, then losing this tiny gift. Very powerfully written, with magical nuances thru-out. Using "grape" is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

[barleygirl]

I just read your note, now I understand further. So very sorry for your loss (((HUGS)))

[Bubo]

I'm very blessed my daughter is now due a little girl in May - thank you - little Grape will never be forgotten

[barleygirl]

Glad to hear & big congrats on your newest addition . . . May will be here in no time! *smile*

[Sarah K Cass]

How powerful this is in conveying how you feel about the loss of Little Grape. Very moving and beautifully written.

[Karen Redburn]

I don't usually review poetry, but this one grabbed me by the title, Little Grape. Very beautiful and sad, if I understand this poem, both from my own reading and comments, this is about loss, but love lives on. Tragic, beautiful poem and I am sorry for your loss.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is so sad...i read it as the loss of a child before that child even gets to reach the world...

death within the womb...but the mother loves, and that love is eternal, even if the life within is ephemeral...

j.

[Bubo]

I feel I have been on a 20 year journey and almost at the end - after four losses myself, my daughter losing her first baby finally she is due to give birth in 4 weeks time to a little girl. This poem was written for my lost grandchild x

[Elmarie]

It brought a tear to my eye! I have just recently suffered the loss of a friend She was only 11. My daughters dear friend. We were very close and I see the torture in her Mother and Father's eyes. The sheer devastation can not be felt by anyone unless they have had that. My husband as a musician has penned a song for her and it has been a beautiful but ever so tragic story..... thank you for putting it in such a way that it actually brought a bit of healing as well.

[Bubo]

Hugs to you - the loss of a child is beyond comprehension - thoughts with you x

[Elmarie]

Thank you Lovely lady :)

[J. Hampton]

I am aware of how hauntingly deep of an abyss these words have come from.So powerful,yet you have not let your pain deny a bond an emotional attachment...I love your nickname Grape....
I pain for you but celebrate with you your new addition coming in May!

[R.M.C]

A lovely piece; such beauty in depicting the depths of human despair (as surely, the loss of one's child is the hardest grievance one could possible bare). The level of description is exceptional, only making the loss that much harder as the reader really gets a vivid picture of a baby that is cruelly taken before it can even taste the sweet fruits of life. I'm not a Godly person myself - though I will confess to sometimes believing there is such a Being or something unknown that connects all life in the universe - I can certainly imagine how such a loss would lead to a disbelief in God - one who is supposed to be Benevolent. A great piece of writing, though tinged by the sadness that I sense from its words and the true story behind them.

[Ed Hart]

i can't imagine...i just can't imagine...of all the assaults life can summon...i just can't imagine

[Celie Rose]

Very touching. First I felt happiness and then pain. Keep you head to the sky.Well written

[Sleeper Note]

Touching. Well done. No criticisms. I liked it.