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May-21-2025
Abandon Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Constance La France

"How sad when it comes to face the world as an orphan! Chasing shadows, he/she searches for the love and protection lost. Having no trail to follow, the search goes on endless"~ By Poet
I am a street urchin, cruelly abandoned, and hurled into the bin like a piece of trash, now roaming to find the one who gave me birth. It's months since I began this endless search, from the days I started to think and feel. wonder if I could ever curl into her warmth! In the roaring crowd that moves along, and on all the faces I chance to glance, I search for a ‘Mother’, who cast me out, into the dark hide out of a vacant street, still smelling of newborn blood, and still fresh with severed chord, to be eaten away by ants and rats, be trampled over or crushed beneath. Now I wander all day long, across the dingy streets I lay forlorn, with hopes so bright and fancies wild, to see my mother emerge from the crowd, with hands outstretched to hug me once, and own me ever, this forsaken child!

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Date: 5/21/2025 10:43:00 AM
What a powerful and sad write you have here. True for many. "Good Luck" I also did this contest. Have a blessed day writing away.........
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Date: 5/21/2025 10:14:00 AM
Oh this is so emotive and poignant, my dear poetess! Such a vulnerable side of the world you've depicted here and given words to those innocent, yet fragile voices... who many a time get lost somewhere in the shadows. The world of orphans and their description of what 'light' means to them, from their own eyes, as they wish to seek the warmth of a mother, a parent, a guardian... sigh, moved me to tears at one point! so heart-wrenching... and this makes me feel that we should be grateful for every moment of peace a d happiness that we spend with our loved ones. Such a deeply evocative and melancholic piece, so incredibly inked for the contest! Sending you many best wishes and light always!
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Date: 5/21/2025 6:52:00 AM
- Unbelievably sad :( - How many children live on the streets, without parents or adult caregivers, impossible to count, Valsa - With the sky as a roof, vulnerable and without love - Best wishes in the contest ... the most sensitive poem I have read for this contest - hugs
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