The Clan of Brothers is a group to give childless not by choice (CNBC) males a safe place to find support and encouragement from their brothers around the globe.

Every Time

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

A little while back I was looking at an old picture my mother took of me and my best friend at the time Michael. We were about seven years old sitting on the front porch of my house. Very happy and smiling.

“You’re Not a Real Man”: The Missed Fortune of Being a Dad

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

The stinging pang of hunger drained the few joules of energy from Beke’s exhausted body. With his feet swollen and succumbing to the great desert heat, he dragged himself towards home.

Progress

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

Can't believe the progress that has happened in the past month.

The teacher

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I retained all of my father’s lessons.

They are packed in the back of

my mind, next to an old smoking habit

and memories of a former flame

who flickers with each passing day.

Picnic On The Lawn

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I first heard this poem when I was aged around 37 yrs old and at the stage of realising my ‘Happy Ending’ really wasn’t going to happen.

A dance of agony in masks

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

The separation from others around me, the loneliness.

Alone, I sit on a park bench,

no stars tonight, out of sight

under these dark clouds that haunt (me) us so.

100% Infertility

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

It is this reason I am writing as I am a Male with 100% infertility. That's to say I cannot father a child bearing my wife and I childless. I was diagnosed with Azoospermia with Normal chromosomes, no abnormalities found.

Passing voices

September 17, 2020 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I heard him say I look mired

in my grief, I’m just tired.

It’s exhausting telling people

the line ends with me.