Short Orphans Poems

Do orphans

    ever regain their

      endorphins...

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War kill martyrs
Bread soak in blood
Orphans flourish....

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When Orphans have one or no parent,
Love and affection are their parents!...

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Orphans line up

their brown shoes

have yet to learn

to be silent...

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We bury soldiers
We weep with the widows
We weep with the orphans
We weep with our heroes....

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

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orphans’ endorphins stop

    when we opt to adopt

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H/T to Gershon Wolf’s Orphans...

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Today some orphans get soppy
And shed a tear on a poppy
Though they never met
Their dad was a vet
And there was no carbon copy...

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Behind closed eyes,
the future still to mourn

Grieving in a blinded state
—orphans left unborn

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)...

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Whilst she amazes
Seasonal changes can turn
Traumatically ~*~

Some species succumb
Amongst them are Bald Eagles
Her Winter's orphans ~*~...

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Look at me; I am so successful!
I am nothing save for Jesus' blood!
Have no god before Me
Love God first then your neighbor
If you love Me, serve widows and orphans....

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Destiny rises to claim the night
  and orphans out the day

Adopting the silence within our fright
  —renamed in what we say

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2017)...

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To lovers love means tender embraces, 
to the lonely orphans...tenderness,  
to the lost...life, not death; 
to children...moms who laugh,  
and to me...happiness that's endless....

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street fights and car wrecks
fires tornadoes and police actions
westerns and witches
tv dramas
lots of orphans
death and despair
murders and attacks
not so much happiness
on prime time TV...

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Ukraine, our friends
tied to adoptions.
no one answers the phone.
Have the adults cut
and run. God help the orphans.
One was waiting, hoping,
knowing they were coming
soon. But now, we pray....

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The future blocked,
by words unsaid

The pasture torn,
its furrows bled

The future blocked,
by words unsaid

The present cries
—its orphans dead

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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Mrs. Elinor Roosevelt championed society's outcasts
Asians, widows, orphans, blacks -- all those downcast
   Yet as six million perished in World War Two
   She refused to speak up for a single Jew...

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Very Better Carry

When I feel comfortable and it is very,
Practice and notes much better carry;
Pleasant, perfect cure,
And be sure to endure;
Will make widows and orphans feel merry.

Jim Horn...

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The present blocked,
  by words unsaid

The pastures torn,
  its furrows bled

The present blocked,
  by words unsaid

The future cries,
—its orphans dead

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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Waiting for the music,
naked and alone
the words become orphans,
unsung and unknown

The letters in limbo,
each phrase nether blown
with melody absent
—the magic disowned

(Rosemont College: December, 2021)...

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The five star dog banana band is coming up the road.
It includes widows and orphans and a bald man so bold.
They screech out their truth.
Louder than Grandma Ruth.
Listening to their crazy harmonies never gets old....

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If I die for you
is that really going to help
the starving orphans
of your mind
that beg me to love you
more than myself?
I need some better reason
to lay down my life.

After you are dead
I may think of one....

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Charity
                 Ideal, commendable
        Relying, supporting, promoting
    Orphans, destitutes, needy, helpless
        Rejoicing, laughing, shopping
               Settled, satisfied
                       Hopes...

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Tender moments, God's grace
Little hand in mine
God lets us care for the children
while we are here to
Teach them the right way-
Serve God, value others, 
Care for the orphans and widows.


Thank you God for my son!!...

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A dozen children
Look at me
With hollow eyes
Seeming envious

They have
No mother
No father
No homes to go to
War took them away

A question bubbles up
Inside me
Why do I have mother
Standing next to me
But not them?...

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