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Over the years former MK's and their family members have sent us poems. We keep them all. Through poetry they have given voice to their pain and in so doing brought healing to others.
 
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The Bell Tolls For Me - by Bryan Butler, PBI Staff Kid and Grad, Fellow Traveler
Shades of Gray - by Ernie Thompson, spouse of former MK and advocate Dear New Tribes Mission - by Bemused
Old Eyes - by JMM The Black Bird - by Irma Emery
Poems by Dale Dorrell, a survivor of Rift Valley Academy, Kenya

I Cannot Be Silent Anymore
Hippo Not-icly Mine!

Lullaby for My Inner Child
To My Child
Bedtime Stories
Silent Scream
Can You Be Touched Again?
Conundrum
Finding The Voice

Poems by Ruth Crilly McWeeney
New Tribes Mission, PNG - the '70s


Need To Know
Tears
Abandonment
In My Head
Sadness
Dorothy Visits - by spouse of an
MK Abuse Survivor
March 2009
Be Still And Know - by Suzie
(former MK)
I Planted A Garden - by Bryan MacDoougall
Rethy Academy, 1964 and RVA
Thinnest of Threads - by the wife of a Rethy Academy alumni
Poems by Mamou Academy alumni, West Africa

Humpty Dumpty
Night at Manou
One Day
The Secret to Getting By
Snake in My Purse
Dichotomies of a Ten-Year Old

Don't Talk to Me! - by a survivor of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission
Poems by Susannah Anderson - Adult MK

Truth
Controlled Burn
Mother Goose Bumps

The Laundry I and The Laundry II - by survivors of Central School, Congo
The Pictures - by an alumni of the CIM school in China The MK Song - by a Baptist MK in Indonesia
Poems by an alumnus of Bingham Academy, Ethiopia

It was Awful
The Roots of a Tree
Desperate to be Understood
My Life/Her Life
 

My Shepherds - by Cathy Cox