Foster Care Poems

Dedicated to a special boy who was my foster brother for a while.

Bitter Sweet

Our memories are locked inside my chest,     ...

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The Care and Feeding of Ideas

Someone wrote them down. 
Words, on parchment, various kinds.
Someone else...
probably edited, and formatted, 
and thought through, and revised, 
and then...

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In our life-building engagement…
may genuine love prevail, upholding our commitment.

For this evaluative retrospection endeavour 
may we respond with sincerity to show our caring* fervour. 

Within...

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This House

This house, this house is a sad house,
We do not foster conversation or laughter.
This house, this house, has sad people,
Living in melancholy here and...

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Adult

When I was little, 
I was taught ABC, 123.
Then school…
Boys here, Girls there!
Here, there!
Who cares?

Jr. High was loads of fun,
Too scared in my middle.
Popularity, social...

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There are holes in my heart with liquid love running through
I can't save it from flowing or keep it for you
It's not that I'm selfish...

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one tear is not enough 
to express how life is tough
I have gone with the flow
but am sad taking the blow.

Lying on pine cones I...

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                     old blue old yellow

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Foster child, unworthy of love,
Unknown in last six placements,
Unavailable, unresponsive, unobtainable, 
Unadoptable and possibly un-foster-able also.

Foster child, must show strength,
Show he is tough, show he...

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STRANGERS CARE

During the moments that I’m feeling down
On the days that I struggle, or think life’s unfair
A bigger voice of wisdom speaks up and reminds...

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When a child's placed in foster care
it is shuffled from heart to heart.
And a link in the chain of love
goodbye precedes every new start.

Trusting eyes...

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I onced met a guy who helped me through everything 
next thing you know Im an emotional person who just came out foster care 
he...

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Why hasn't she called?
It's been almost a year.
Does she not care anymore?
Is she that ashamed of me?
It hurts day after day,
More and more.
I just want...

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Foster children move from place to place,
with memories that walk the night alone.
Nor is the love their's that they must embrace,
Yet most survive with a...

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A couple of years later, at age 19, this farm girl married and, true to her Catholic
upbringing, began having children. She had four live births...

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I am in foster care
It's like i was assign to a dare
being in foster care is not fair
i am always left out and i cry...

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One thing is for sure here in these places
That demons are abundant with childlike faces

Assassins lurk about unyielding to their task
Though they bare no threat...

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