Foster Home Poems - Poems about Foster Home

Hector Loves his Quietude

...The prison cell was the best place Hector had ever lived
He relished his solitude
He had never had silence in a foster home or a group home
Hector was at peace
Glad to be here
Grateful for this ...

It is to Be

...It is to be,  
The path that my mother took,  
The guiding hand that left her at a tender age,  
The foster home that taught her about rage,  
The lessons she learned as she turned the pages of e...

6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO HEAVEN

...THE UNSEEN TERROR BEHIND MY WEARING PREGNANT FOR THE FBI CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE LIVING AT 6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO WE LIVED ON THE FIRST FLOOR THE BUILDING OWNED BY PAPPA DUKES LONGTIME PILAR OF CHICA...

FORBIDDEN APPARENT

...Rejection chain reaction
New Born Male Child
A babe suffering during while
A Mother who wanted her son to die
Heaven’s intervention rise
The new born experienced Asthma, Yellow Jaundice and Maln...

Let Tomorrow Worry About Tomorrow

...Collaboration with Marcello Eans

Often thought it, never said it.
I’m an heir to Earth, by birth, a world I inherit.
24 hours to live, do I cherish?
Man without vision, a man wh...

Phoenix Rising

...Left at the fire station shortly after birth,
as a young child, I didn't know self-worth.
Shipped on from foster home to the next,
my life was so difficult and very complex.

In the midst of it ...

If Only You Knew

...If only you knew…
the anguish that gripped my heart
trying to fathom 
midst clemency’s understanding
justification for your juvenile 
freedom-driven departure…

If only you knew…
the ...

Childvoice

...As a child I knew life wasn’t perfect, 
 had to survive most day 
a lot of things I went through I didn’t deserve it!

Held a lot of people down when it wasn’t even worth it , so I felt  everybod...

A Forgotten Angel

...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 she?  They wondered
Did she have any friends?
Wh...

Where I Come From

...I am from little toys, from 
hair gel to vases.
     I am from the Foster Home
and the scent of cleaning.
     I am from the growing basil,
the fallen tree out back whose
long gone limbs I reme...

Given To Grandma That Night

...I go to classes and everybody cheers.
The teacher is cheering the loudest of all, the kids laugh at this.
I am her thirty minute break, and it is a time for me to play with
children who needed one...

Anyone Seen My Mum

...Mum I am Searching for you

Lies, Lies, but before you die tell me the truth

So you had me and gave me away

But there was nothing I could do

I was just a little one only six weeks old

B...

Honesty

...Honesty-an orphan lost in the streets of apathy-desperately seeking a foster home to find!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       19 August 2018...

Caregiving Stories Continued

...Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My B...

Caregiving Stories

...The Tyrant

Was born ginger
and learned WhiteRacist
from Dad
dead now about a year.

Possibly opioid addiction
but certainly something
in growing families
of yin-suppressed
self-medicating...

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