Best Foster Care Poems

Children placed in foster care are
quickly shuffled from heart to heart.
Breaking links in a chain of love
goodbye; precedes every new start.

Wary eyes scan every fresh...

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Sitting alone with my thoughts and this drink at night 
So many thoughts but I'm scared to pick up the pen and use this Ink...

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Playing Batman and Robin is a lot different

When the Riddler is your Stepfather

And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile

When your secret mission is to keep him

From...

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My grandfather on my father’s side, was a pecker-toothed sidle who raped his 
daughter when she was just ten. He threw down vodka from an...

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A FORGOTTEN ANGEL

Who was she?  They wondered
No one knew her name
Where did she live?  They wondered
No one ever saw her playing
How old was...

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Words are not enough,
Alphabets strung in uncertainty,
Speech slurred in disbelief,
Love endlessly professed,
Lacking in action or substance,
Intentions of the heart,
Inexpressible by vocabulary,
Pledges frustrated by timelines,
Lofty dreams...

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To count where I failed you'd need more than two hands
If you focus on my mistakes as a boy, you don't deserve the new man
I...

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I call this topic wow!

Wow how stupid it is to go abroad and adopt a kid, when our own kids remain in the foster care...

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This is the only way I know how to express myself
I can't speak in person, but rhyming words helps
You can see the blood on the...

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This is two parter. The first dealing with the abuse of the mother. The second part is about her child, growing up in care

The Girl,...

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younger than me she happens to be
prettier than me she happens to be
smarter than me she happens to be
we are both trapped and ready to...

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I hope someone uses some of my lines as quotes 
I hope my words inspire some to carry on
I hope my rhymes encourage you to...

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Screams that never got heard, tears that never got dried
the ignored child as my parents would fight
I found peace in sleep because my real life...

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I was born 
on Christ-
mas day.My 
mother was 
sprung out
on drugs. My 
father was 
unknown, he 
was one of
her tricks.
The moment
I cried, I was
placed in...

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When a child's placed in foster care,
it gets shuffled from heart to heart.
And a link in the chain of love,
goodbyes precede every new start.

Hopeful eyes...

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