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    Three Hearts Stitched: Poems About Adoption
    Three Hearts Stitched: Poems About Adoption
    Three Hearts Stitched: Poems About Adoption
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    Three Hearts Stitched: Poems About Adoption

    By Celaine Charles

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    Emotional, deep, layered, beautiful, and stunning. This book of adoption poems will break your heart, then stitch it back together again. 

     

    Drawing on her own experience as an adopted child, author Celaine Charles crafts poems based on both her own life and fictionalized stories of her own design. The result is a powerful and honest book because it is told from the heart. 

     

    How does it feel to give up your child for adoption, to adopt, or be adopted? Three Hearts Stitched tells the story from each view, often in a way you didn't expect, revealing deep emotions and heart. The child who wonders if they were wanted or unwanted. A birth mother filled simultaneously with sorrow and hope. Parents who long for children to arrive.

     

    Confusion, sadness, joy. All these feelings and more are captured in Three Hearts Stitched. Let your heart break, mourn, and get stitched back together again. 

    This is the second book of poems by Celaine Charles. She was a poetry finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association Literary Contest, July 2017. Her first poetry book Colors Collected was based on her online series Colors, awarded Best New Series, Best Continuing Series, and Best Poetry Series for the 2018 Channillo Awards. 

     

    Get your copy today to experience this collection of poems yourself.

     

    Celaine Charles writes a powerful, honest, and vulnerable collection of poems about adoption that shows bravery and heart.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEgret Lake Books
    Release dateJan 14, 2024
    ISBN9781956498097
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      Three Hearts Stitched - Celaine Charles

      birth mother

      confusion

      (Birth Mother)

      I wonder if

      I

      can possibly

      possibly

      care for you

      as I should.

      I wonder if

      you

      will ever

      ever

      love me

      as you would

      her.

      (Adoptive Mother)

      I wonder if

      I

      can possibly

      possibly

      care for you

      as I should.

      I wonder if

      you

      will ever

      ever

      love me

      as you will

      her.

      heartbreak

      Three hearts that day,

      a sonatina…though we know how it ends,

      how love is knit into pairs.

      Sun and Moon

      wrapped their arms around

      their souls, suspended in time.

      Only a glimpse

      where all three entwined, all three

      joined in a dance.

      Only a nursery rhyme

      to keep time, to keep rhythm

      for a day or so.

      According to the law

      while clocks ticked, fermata…bid ominous,

      and hearts slipped.

      But we know this melody, the last verse

      hums in heartbreak

      for just one.

      blue skies

      She soars through blue skies,

      mother bird,

      though gray clouds lie snug against the day,

      though rain threatens her horizon,

      she flies onward with the wind,

      away from the day’s judgement.

      Moon rises in the dusk,

      a gleaming hint of sunlight,

      like a lantern lit

      behind thoughts in her mind,

      past decisions made in fear

      of the looming night

      evermore blue in her memory.

      heavy heart

      A gift,

      a blessing,

      a moment unforgiving.

      Accident,

      mistake,

      a chance of near escape.

      Nine months

      on loan,

      payment due in grief.

      One heart,

      two souls

      tempo in a dance.

      Spared life

      celebrates

      heavy heart—a second chance.

      among the reeds

      I could not be the one to set you free

      in a basket among the reeds.

      Your noble father bore the task,

      while morning sun sat behind

      a cloud, its own rays afraid to

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