Orphan Poems - Poems about Orphan

You chance upon her in the far reaches of the backyard a place you never go and there she trembles a tiny tiger in a blurred world secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs faint mews draw you closer the power of her vulnerability fills your veins with a pulse rising brimming you with a nectar needed like a dry stream bed...

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In the dim light of the moon's glow, An orphan dreams where the cold wind blow, Hot silent tears trace paths on a dirtied weary face, In a world too vast, an empty space. The cradle that once rocked, now stood silent and still, No more lullabies, no more warmth to fill, Tiny hands reach for shadows of love and care, But...

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Without our dreams we sit naked and alone Imprisoned by doldrums adrift from our home In fits of depression we unstep the mast Awaiting the storm — of futures long past (The New Room: August, 2024) ...

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Circumstances Poem Lionel Derbyshire Circumstances leaves you few A chances. No nick, no pick, no give me more. Just a little sauce. No custard tart. You in shoestring circumstance It's rough-and-tumble In the orphan grumble. All I can stitch together in memory is my big toe sticking out from my small blanket. But kismet! for that umbrella blanket I did not even own every night. And yet...

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mother has been gone less than a day her favorite time of day was daybreak, I think I walk outside into the sun, but do not feel any better there is something horrible about not having your mother I did not realize it before because I was never an orphan but now I am I sit on a bench feeling despair I am...

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He carries a wound that festers with smell, He fears within it, bad germs might dwell. Since losing his folks, he’s lost everything; Each morning, he wonders what life will bring. Each coin that he grasps, he holds with great care, For hunger and pain both watch him in fear. He eats little and soothes his pain with balm, His survival depends...

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Different worlds Different times Growing up In our minds Neither here nor there Ambivalence reigned Father ruled Mother gained No holding No cuddling Sin running Reason befuddling Sickness and disease Chaos ordered in line Six days left To leave it all behind What's ahead More of the unknown Just a basket of fruit Showing how creation has grown Written by Trudy Schrader on 01-27-2024...

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Ellie was just three months old, When she was brought to our sanctuary, A safe haven was our fold. She was an orphan, her mother, Her sister, her aunt, her brother, All chased and shot, and left to die, From our sad experience we knew, That probably a foul mouthed, Red faced, sun frazzled man Whose muscled legs would look Disgusting,...

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She sits alone Shunned by those that rhyme With sublime Ridiculed by the raucous And bellicose For of all the words It is said She is the only one That doesn’t rhyme With anything. She has ceased defending Her presence In the molten shades Of breaking dawns Her streaming brush stroked Sunsets She often sits alone Amid the seasonal splendor Of a New England Autumn Shuffling through the rustling Shades and shadows of her self. She...

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A young man murders his mother and father 'for fun' throws himself on the court's mercy, 'cos he's an 'orphan' The young man is Hamas, his mother and father, Palestinians and Jews the West is the court,...

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Four children had to tell mama and papa goodbye. It was World War I. Would they ever see them again? No one spoke of this, not wanting to alarm the little ones. Janice was told to take care of her siblings if possible. It was impossible. They were separated along the way Brigid age three was chosen at their first...

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I'm just an orphan. A transplant to this state. Basking in the sun light, sitting by a lake. There's people all around me but I know not one. It's active here now that bass season has begun.. I'm only one orphan on this bright spring day, captive to melodic birds as they chirp away.. I'm only one orphan befriended by an oak. It's...

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Alone in the night, with no one to hold, A life she never chose, yet she's so bold. Her mother left her, on the day of her birth, A cruel fate, that dealt her an insurmountable hurt. She never knew the warmth of a mother's embrace, Feeling lost and disconnected, in this lonely space. She searched for love and care, but...

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In somber twilight's quiet embrace, An orphaned child with tear-streaked face, Gazed upon a golden fruit, A symbol of solace, grief to mute. The fruit hung high, a treasure divine, A mother's love, that once did shine, A beacon bright of memories dear, Its glow bespoke of love sincere. Alas, no arms to hold, to guide, A void where once a heart resided, In wistful...

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She sat alone behind a closed window, secured by iron grids, on the top floor of an ugly old black building that some dared call an orphanage. Once she had hope, Once she had dreams that some kindly couple might perceive, wish her for themselves, take her to a cosy house, where food was savoury to taste. She dreamt she would achieve normality, attend a...

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