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Adoption Poems & Foster Parent Poems

Adoption poems written by adoptive parents, birth family, foster parents, and adoptees. Find an adoption poem for an adoption announcement or one that suits your mood at this time in your adoption journey.

Adoption Poems - Healing Words of Adoption Poetry

Many members of the adoption triad have found healing in sharing adoption poems. What do adoption poems mean to you? Have you written an adoption poem that you would like to share with others?

Adoption Poems by Subject

Read poems written by readers who have used their talent as a way to work through the heavy emotions attached to adoption.

The Right Choice for a Baby Boy - An Adoption Poem

A birth mother explains her decision to place her baby for adoption through an adoption poem.

Adoption Poems About Birth Mothers

Adoption poems about the love of birthmothers and the grief and loss they endure when choosing to place their child for adoption.

Adoption Poems About Adoption Search and Reunion

Adoption poems about adoption searches and adoption reunions. Find a listing of adoption poems for various adoption and foster care subjects.

Adoptee Adoption Poems

Adoption poems written by and or for adoptees. Find a listing of various adoption poems, written by varying members of the adoption triad.

Foster Care and Foster Care Adoption Poems

Foster care adoption poems specifically for foster care adoption situations. Find a listing of other adoption poems.

Adoption Poems for Adoptive Parents

Adoption poems about adoptive parents, mostly written while waiting for an adoption finalization or waiting for an adoption referral. Find a listing of other adoption poems.

An Adoption Poem

An adoption poem, "Written by a Teenage Birth Mother" describes the thought process of a young women trying to decide whether to parent her baby or choose adoption. Adoption poems help explore deeper feelings of those involved in the adoption triad.

Adoption Poems for Children

Adoption poems that may be more appropriate for children. Find a listing of adoption poems by subject.

Mother - An Adoption Poem

An adoptee shares thoughts on the connection with both adoptive mom and birth mom.

Finding Father, Missing Mother

Many have found writing to be therapeutic. Adoption poems are no exception. Adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents have found comfort through writing adoption poems. This young adoptee wrote about his dream of finding his birth parents through an adoption reunion.

Angels Working Overtime

An adoption poem for children, submitted by an adoptive parent. Adoption poetry is one way many members of the adoption triad work through feelings and emotions that often accompany the subject of adoption and foster care.

That Day

This young adoptee wrote about her dream for an adoption reunion.

The Reunion

This adoptee has written about an adoption reunion that did not turn out the way she had hoped.

What I Am

Lisa Myers, adoptee, shares another adoption poem with About.com readers. Adoption poems can be healing to members of the triad.

To Her Birthmother

An adoption poem by Tom Fisher to the birthmother of his youngest daughter recently adopted from China. Adoption poems are a great way to express feelings about a delicate subject like adoption.

Another Year Gone By

Adoptee Lisa Myers shares another adoption poem. Lisa writes adoption poems to explore her feelings about being an adoptee and her longing to meet her birth mother.

Gone

Lisa Myers, an adoptee, shares with the readers of About Adoption & Foster Care an adoption poem entitles "Gone". She uses the writing of adoption poems to explore her feelings of being adopted.

Still Silent

Adoption poem written by guest contributor on About Adoption & Foster Care. This adoptee shares the pain of an adoption reunion that ends without warning.

On the Wings of a Prayer

A poem written by a mother who lost the custody of her two children to grandparents who have agreed to an open adoption.

Passage

A poem written by an adoptive father, Ron Schutt. Schutt has adopted children from the foster care system. "Passage" speaks about the trauma of moving children from home to home and how the children work to believe that they can now trust a new set of parents.

A Moonbeam

Poems by an adoptive father who awaits for a referral.

Can You Hear a Mother's Cry?

Poem written while waiting for the finalization of an adoption. Written by an adoptive mother - Poem written while waiting.

The Rising Moon

Poems by an adoptive father who awaits for a referral.

Daydreaming

Poems by an adoptive father who awaits for a referral.

Instantly

A poem written by an adoptive mother waiting for the adoption of her child from Russia. Poems written while waiting.

Oh Little One

A poem written by an adoptive mom. Poems written while waiting.

Two Families

Amanda, an adoptee from Taiwan, wrote the following poem when she was nine years old, just after meeting her birth mother for the first time.

I Dream of You

Beautiful poem by Tom Fisher about a birth parent's love.

She Loves Me

Adoption poems by adoptive parent Tom Fisher. He writes about the love a birth mother has for her child.

Until Forever

Adoption Poem by adoptive parent, Tom Fisher.

A Mother's Love

Adoption Poetry by Tom Fisher, adoptive parent.

Sealed Records

A poem written by a woman upon finding her brother.

Before The Dawn

Adoption poem written by adoptive father, Tom Fisher.

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