Long Foster Poems
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Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
foster, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
foster, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Caregiving Stories ContinuedWounded 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 BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
foster, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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Categories:
foster, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Precious Priceless ProgenyPrecious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
foster, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
10 Things I Hate About Me1 - I can't be alone
I struggle to be by myself because my dark thoughts come
But when I'm with people my heart is numb
On top of a lot of pain is what I built my...
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Categories:
foster, deep, emotions, encouraging, growing up, growth, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Mother of the AgeStately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...
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Categories:
foster, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness, imagery, jealousy,
Form:
Epic
Attitude with latitudeAttitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...
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Categories:
foster, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
I've Been Sure Since '62The man that I’d looked up to most when I was just a kid...that I’d preferred to my own dad...of whom I was ashamed...
Often prompted speculation he - without my knowing - likely was my...
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Categories:
foster, betrayal, father son, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Tell ThemTell Them
To all who have never known, it's time that you've been told.
Tell the population to change its ways before these lost lives and souls are all in vain.
Tell the girls to think...
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Categories:
foster, inspiration, drug, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Watching IsmsThere is a world of difference
between schism and jism,
but they both end up the same.
Just as patriarchal Roman Catholicism
overpowers living and breathing Christianity,
so too does Capitalism
overpower cooperative capital co-investment,
so too does autocratic rationalism
overpower syncretic enculturing...
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Categories:
foster, culture, earth day, health, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
After Serving Six Long Hard Years At Methacton State PenitentiaryAfter serving six long hard years at Methacton State penitentiary...
as mini reunion number
XLV fast approaches
Saturday, April 30th, 7:00 pm
until 10:00 pm
at The Trappe Tavern, 416 West
Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426
regarding graduating...
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Categories:
foster, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
A Welcome Intrusion - 1st HalfThis is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I could manage to make it...
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Categories:
foster, father son,
Form:
Narrative
Caregiving StoriesThe 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
LeftBrain too dominant
addictions
to chemical acclimations.
Dad left by death
Tyrant's also addicted
and chronically depressed mother
And his only white racist
twelve year...
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Categories:
foster, bullying, caregiving, education, health, humor, parents, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Letters From BatmanPlaying 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 bringing heroin and pornography
To Gotham city
Your mother wanted to...
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Categories:
foster, abuse, adventure, courage, death, hero, introspection, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
There Is This Dark Place Where I GoThere Is This Dark Place Where I Go
There is this dark place where I go
when feeling overwhelmed
When life is too much to go on
My light all but dispelled
I take myself up to my room
And...
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Categories:
foster, angel, anxiety, betrayal, death, depression, emotions, fear,
Form:
Lyric
For Both, a Second Chance - Both Audio and Text“So tell me…what’s adopting like? Seems a little risky - picking out your children from the local lost and found!
Suppose the kid’s a ‘loser.’ Do they let you bring ‘em back? Can you -...
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Categories:
foster, love,
Form:
Narrative
Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and ParentsOnerous task confronted teachers and parents
As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.
A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...
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Categories:
foster, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 24~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Remains the pain within the dark
A song so soft of love and heart
Yet, holes this deep leave their mark
Like life's sorrowed canvas art
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Elf King,” said DynDoeth, “Erlenkönig means Elf King.”
Joulupukki...
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Categories:
foster, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Mildred and Stanley - Both Audio and TextMy wife and I were traveling down the road one afternoon
When she said, “Honey, I could use a pit-stop pretty soon.”
Now…we all know the feeling when old Mother Nature calls,
So I said, “As...
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Categories:
foster, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Blueprint For a KingdomYou have fixed all movements within time
every trails destination have you outlined
no creature can operate ...
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Categories:
foster, analogy, bible, creation, faith, life, paradise, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T WignesanTranslation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned over twenty languages in the southern Indian...
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Categories:
foster, god, mother, religious, universe, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Love MeLove me and come close to me
Love me and dine with me
Love me and dance with me
Love me and sing with me
It is such a wonderful feeling to wake up this morning
To wake up with...
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Categories:
foster, assonance, beautiful, best friend, blessing, crush, desire,
Form:
Free verse
AwenTo witness no trace of a step, that has lingered beneath the dewy lush grass.
Then to gaze upon greatest glory! While creation unfolds right in front of you.
Revealing its treasured secrets, while you stand stunned,...
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Categories:
foster, creation, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
A Forgotten AngelA 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?
What happened? ...
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Categories:
foster, angel, anger, betrayal, child abuse, courage, grave,
Form:
Free verse