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Permanent childlessness was never a choice

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

They tell me that I’m choosing this

as though I have a choice.

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In Our Stories Tags childless poetry, disenfranchised grief, religion and childlessness, childless not by choice
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I was pregnant once

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I was pregnant once.

A long time ago.

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In Our Stories Tags childless not by choice, abusive relationships, childless poem
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Open Letter to My "Son"

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

Dear Kirby, It’s been 6 months now since you crossed the Rainbow Bridge; I am still struggling to explain to others how hard it’s been since you’ve been gone.

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In Our Stories Tags furkids, involuntarily childless, disenfranchised grief
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VACANCY

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

A hollowness invades my being.
Emptiness that should be filled -

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In Our Stories Tags childless poetry, childless by circumstance
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BARREN

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

Been here before.
An old path worn.

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In Our Stories Tags mental health matters, infertility, childless poem
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Delicate

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

You are so fragile

like lace given life.

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In Our Stories Tags childless after loss, childless poem, lost dreams
4 Comments

Post-it notes on the window

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I step back from the window

having joined the group of strangers

in sticking up post-it notes,

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In Our Stories Tags childless not by choice, childless support, childless community
6 Comments

Through the Mire

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

A collection of four poems addressing the emotional turmoil of a cancer diagnosis leading to childlessness-not-by-choice.

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In Our Stories Tags childless poetry, childless after cancer
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You, too

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

(Like mother, like daughter) I was born in Sri Lanka in 1977. It was a time when they called Sri Lanka a “third world country.” It was also a time when you had to be married to get pregnant.

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In Our Stories Tags childless adoption, childless by circumstances
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A Thousand Years

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I’ve worked so hard on myself – to build the life I have now.

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In Our Stories Tags disenfranchised grief, lost dreams, childless by circumstance
7 Comments

The New Kitchen

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

As he grouts the white marble tiles

Our builder helpfully reminds me

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In Our Stories Tags childless poem, disenfranchildless grief, hidden grief
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Table For Two

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

She talks, and her hands are in flight, they light

on his hands, her soft face, the rosebud’s flame,

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In Our Stories Tags childless poetry, women without children
3 Comments

Would Have

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

You would have been almost fourteen now

You would have been full of adolescent hormones

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In Our Stories Tags childless poetry, infertility and miscarriage, lost dreams
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My hysterectomy at 33

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

How do I start writing about something that has had a profound impact on my life in a matter of hours since I decided to write just hours before the deadline.

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In Our Stories Tags hysterectomy, adenomyosis, childless not by choice
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Only tell the people you love

September 15, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

Do all women secretly fear they're
infertile?
I did and I guess I am.

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In Our Stories Tags miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, childless not by choice
6 Comments
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