| Having to give your daughter or son up for adoption | | | | poem, begin by reading up on poems written by |
| is a very painful experience. But you are not alone in | | | | other women. If you are a member of a local |
| your emotional turmoil. A lot of birth mothers who | | | | adoption support group, ask for help. Chances are, |
| have given up their children feel that same pain. How | | | | they may have copies of adoption poems that may |
| do they cope with it? By sharing their experiences | | | | mirror your very own experience. You may also find |
| through an adoption poem. | | | | poetry anthologies in you local library. Or, you may |
| Sharing your personal experience is one of the most | | | | find adoption poems online. Do a web search and you |
| therapeutic ways for you to begin the healing | | | | may find an adoption poem that's close to your |
| process and overcome feelings of guilt and regret. It | | | | heart. |
| is one of the most effective ways that women, | | | | You can also find many helpful guides for writing your |
| because of extreme circumstances are forced to | | | | own adoption poem online. You can write an adoption |
| give their children up for adoption, can gain closure. | | | | poem about how you felt when you were having |
| Writing an adoption poem, in particular, begins the | | | | your child. You can also write about your worries, |
| healing process that grants them peace of mind. It | | | | your fears, and your hopes of giving your child a |
| washes away the guilt and reinforces the knowledge | | | | good life. Write an adoption poem that says |
| that wherever your child may be, he or she is safe | | | | something about why you had to give him or her up. |
| and may be taken cared for by adoptive parents | | | | Writing honestly about how letting go was the only |
| who can give him or her, a chance at a life you've | | | | way you could ever hope he or she may be |
| hoped for them. By writing down your experiences | | | | well-cared for. Through your adoption poem, you |
| and feelings in an adoption poem, you can begin to | | | | might be able to share the hope that one day your |
| hope, to start over and be able to carry on with | | | | child may understand your decision and not think less |
| your own life. | | | | of you. |
| There are a lot of things that you can write about in | | | | Start on your own path to self-healing by writing |
| an adoption poem. Birth mothers, who have come to | | | | your own adoption poem. Read more about how |
| terms with their adoption, often write prayer-poems, | | | | other birth mothers have written their own poems |
| asking God to watch over their children. Others write | | | | and start from there. One adoption poem that is |
| poems wondering who their children are and what | | | | well-circulated over the Internet ends with a fervent |
| they will become in the future. Some dream of | | | | prayer to a birth mother's son, that as he looks back |
| meeting their children again, and when that time | | | | and wonders why she gave her up, he would see |
| comes, hope they will understand the choice of | | | | and understand that it was love that made her let |
| adoption. | | | | him go. |
| If you don't know how to start writing an adoption | | | | |