Orphans Poems

Cognitive Orphans

You don’t have
to write them all
but thoughts
deserve a chance

To live beyond
this time and place
in words reborn
to dance

You don’t have
to set them free
but guilt
will curse your ink

For thoughts unread
trapped in your head
to wander
— indistinct

(The New Room: July, 2025)

Gray Orphans and Ancient Flint

Many paths lead away from home
but only one leads back
as the years sit salted upon the rack
you find the path home has narrowed and 
turned from gates of iridescence
to mirrors opaque and black-
you arrive with exhaustion on your boots
a feast of favorites on a favorite plate
go upstairs to your yellow crib
have those unreachable dreams again\
things

Orphans In The Bastille

All the pure thinkers
are slave to the Poet
Their theories self-serving
whose quotients divide

With ‘facts’ that convict them
to prisons constructed
From every transcendence
— their numbers can’t hide

(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: May, 2025) 

The jewel of Jesus

No wonder, Jesus was a jewel,                                               He was a

feast with orphans

another ceasefire
another ceasefire
it won't last long
it'll hold until 
weapons are replenished
wounds are patched
the tongues
of the blood puppets
are refreshed
another ceasefire
another ceasefire
it won't last long
neither side thinks
that the other belongs

if there is a god
then we're all god's children
and we all belong
if there is no god
then we're all orphans
and nobody belongs
either way the universe
doesn't care. 

make war unprofitable
then

Millions of African Orphans

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 women
in different parts 
of African territories. 
Yoh! 
Where is humanity?
Why

VOMIT BY THE OCEANS

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 of orphans encrease rapidly 
As many parents continue to be

Drought Orphans

Drought Orphans

                                              Homeless clouds,
      

Orphans

orphans’ endorphins stop

    when we opt to adopt

—————

H/T to Gershon Wolf’s Orphans

Orphans

Do orphans

    ever regain their

      endorphins

You and I Are Orphans Together-

Brother, you and I 
Are orphans together
In the family of God
Held ever bounded closely together

Sister, you and I
Are orphans together
Together we in spirituals liberties
bounded as one big family

Humanity, you and I
Are awesome together
blinds by our mercies grace

Humanity, calming down
awaiting Jesus returning to this dismal sinful space
With brother and sister in hands
United we stand
With eagles wings

Forest Orphans

Acorns cover the forest floor
                        missing their parent, now my front door

We Are Orphans

When there is no original family,
no grandparents, no parents,
no uncles and cousins,
we are fundamentally alone,
alone in the world...
It's time to create
the neo-original family,
ours...
Once we're orphans,
will have of our creation
those who will be our orphans...

The Orphans Tears

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 our best suits.

After covering miles,
Some bath us with dishes water,
As

An Orphans Cry

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 me.
My legs are all burnt,my face is a mess,
I wouldn't

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