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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Orphans Lie in Blue Beds

by Bobbie Troy

orphans lie
in blue beds
as if the blue
can calm their loneliness
and turn the twilight
into happiness

with stiff and still little bodies
except for trembling lips
they quietly accept their fate

4 comments:

  1. poignant in its simplicity!

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  2. How moving and absolutely lovely! Thanks Bobbie, for giving us poem after poem of such immediacy and compassion.

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  3. Thank you, Sarene and Saideh. I appreciate your comments!

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