Best Orphaned Poems

I.
I
My,my
ego's cry-
neglected,long lost
family..duties..left to die,
fixated on symptoms society still wonders why !...

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She
Felt some
Emotion
Because she had been
Left orphaned, at  age five
Her father died from rabies
Leaving five children alone
To fend for themselves,'til on their own
     ...

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gentle Wind, as evening gathers,
gathers up the orphaned Leaves,

leaves some tucked in between the Rocks...

rocks some to sleep beneath the Trees...

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A heavy sigh and vacant staring
      through a glass walled cell.
   Electric purple owls with golden eyes
loom about, transfixed and silent.
         No going back.

Bloody rays of a setting sun
 ...

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Half-Orphaned - A letter to a son from a father in heaven

Dear Son,

Sorry!
to leave you half-orphaned
to abandon you with my death

Sorry!
for not picking you from school
for missing out on your football matches

Sorry!
to dump you and your mother with a financial crisis
to have you to see...

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A 
guitar 
without strings


--
Inspired by Brian Strand's 
Perfect 6 Poetry Contest....

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I've wrote that I died with you. I warbled sonnets about our mutual loss and pain.
Now I try to find a pinpoint on the day of resurrection, of when my breath retook.
No, this sorrow never fades; the grief is always here, but slowly like a...

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Sought by the Lord to nestle in His grace
My soul now finds belongingness serene
Secured around warmth of divine embrace
Orphaned no more against abandoned scene.

Midst God’s compassion assuring my heart
I rejoice to receive pardon divine
Settling me from sins by mercy’s rampart
As confession prevails over pride-whine.

Grateful to...

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Orphaned Slab 
         by Odin Roark

They call me a foundation
once supporting siding and stone
wire
plumbing
shingles

Through the doors of my house
trailed family and friends
across kitchen floor
slanted slightly
letting Benny’s agate marbles
migrate to the corner

Atop my shoulders
a house of character once...

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Orphaned Pebbles
                 by Odin Roark

Atop so many ebbs and tides
Have I ridden
Beneath the roil and tumble
Have I survived

Now at last
A fling of wave and wind
Rests me among found safety
A...

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The subconscious mind exists behind thought,
where reality's not always real.
Imbued with skills imagination wrought,
it ventures beyond reason to reveal
innate impulses thought cannot conceal.

Curiosity ponders what could be;
contemplating all the what-ifs and maybes.
And sleep creates an actuality,
whereas there is no cancer, no scabies,
no wars, no dying,...

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Part man part creature this spirit, fallen, from her skies..
Nineteen fifty-nine an expedition discovering His child floating
Gallantly down Love's reinish river ? Wrapped in a cloth of many colours
Black pearl eyes gazing past her wickers wedge; by and by beloved, their baby....
Mixed metaphors prodigical doors;...

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We said goodbye
the night we met
fate our child
to bear

Star crossed love
in orphaned time
 betrothed stillborn
—affair 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...

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There was a wee orphaned lad named Kerplunk
Poor kid wore clothes to school that always stunk
   The principal despaired
   Asked, 'Kerplunk, don't you care?'
Said Plunk: 'What if your new parents were skunks?'...

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Wind, as her final rainstorm gathers,
gathers up the orphaned leaves
Leaves some tucked in between the rocks,
rocks some to sleep beneath the trees

Trees, moved so by her (rain and all)
all bow, and though not known to cry, 
cry now, while silvered leaves of fall,
fall as they...

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