Best Orphans Poems

When tomorrow's door is knocked upon.
To make you face that dreaded dawn.
Where can you turn to face the day.
When the love you've known has gone away. 

Morning shadows cast new found light.
Leave you drifting like a cut loose kite.
To pick up the pieces all caught...

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Orphans
One day a poet
took all his poems : complete, in complete, written & unwritten too
put them in his bag and went to her.

He emptied his bag & dispersed all his poems in front of her 
and said –
“see, all these poems are your kids
I have...

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as seeing millions 
of orphans at the boundaries 
of African lakes, 
some foreign wars 
and genocides planners 
continue to plan about the mass
 killings of millions of other parents. 
my hands are not getting tired 
to write about the killings 
of  innocent voiceless  
African men 
and...

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Whilst she amazes
Seasonal changes can turn
Traumatically ~*~

Some species succumb
Amongst them are Bald Eagles
Her Winter's orphans ~*~...

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A Taoist's View of Bill Plotkin's
Wounded Southern Orphan.

Really, dear,
that's too long for a co-inviting title,
How about just-us for
Wounded Taoist Anawim?

Oh
I don't think we want to go 
grieving back there,
Those early teenage years
of viral WinLose hurts
and monocultural bullying.

Wounds of WesternYang against EasternYin anger
and fear of never...

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In dells and great glens groups of happy orphan children run and pick bunches of flowers,
They smell them, weave them into posies and garlands, they are blessed by angels in heaven,
And all these children are where they are, because a catastrophe has ruined their sad...

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WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF WAR


In all the wars the world has known
There's come the grief of a broken home
A home where love had once been shown
But now a family is all alone

The father and husband gave his life
And left behind his children and wife
To face...

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A dozen children
Look at me
With hollow eyes
Seeming envious

They have
No mother
No father
No homes to go to
War took them away

A question bubbles up
Inside me
Why do I have mother
Standing next to me
But not them?...

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Innocently shocked, they surveyed their new abode
midst warm welcome of strangers introducing themselves
sweetly assuring, “We are your family --- starting today.”

Such captivating look would soon grip my heart 
when they candidly confronted me with this question I found it hard to explain 
to kids, aged...

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Weeds grow around, under the fence that leans
Wagon sits in barn yard needing mending
Hay rake left in the field to use between
Summer showers, rake hay for winter feeding

Wagon sits in barn yard needing mending
Since father died none takes charge of farm
Summer showers, rake hay for...

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Where are our parents?
Where is the womb of our flesh?
Where are the graves to testify
We had parents?
Why do lamentations salute us?

The sentiment of this world is confusing.
Having food is like hell,
What more about buying a slipper!
Day and night,
The dumpsites are our shopping centers,
As wrecks are...

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uranus in aries
moon in aquarius
her hand s in mine
two large quincux
between celestial bodies
mercury and jupiter conjunct
in virgo yod configuration
we are waiting for our
karmic missions new
inner level of awareness
astounding layers of ignorance
we are blissful orphans...

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Drought Orphans

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Oh Jesus,oh Jesus,high in the sky,
Please won't you let this heart of mine die.
I get sad at all the things that I see,
When no other children play their games with me.
You let this happen when I was just three,
Now that I'm older, it's harder for...

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When the oceans
Swallowing some orphans
And
      Vomit them 
At the boundaries.
Yoh! 
      Don't laugh
Loud.  
Because they can 
      Still be alive 
      By the miracles 
      Of Yahweh God. 
Their parents were innoncently  killed , 
went to rest in peace with God. 
Yoh!
This world ?
Number...

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