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FirstbornMy first and only son,
Precious blood of my blood,
What can I give to you
To prepare you for this life?
There is so much I want to show you—
So many things to see, and hear, and feel,
So...
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Categories:
father son, life,
Form: Free verse
MOMMom
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Where is my metal
When i am weak
Where is my coastline
From the deep...
Where is the fountainhead
Of our parenthood
Her heart is never
A padlock
She rubs my ear
And vow to love me
In solemn oath.
Our pact is unbreakable
In my...
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Categories:
son, age, celebration, child, hero,
Form: Free verse
An Unlocked Door
My dearest child, please hear
You are still underage
The world you do not fear
Its strength you cannot gauge
If fixed to go away
Don’t bring on dreadful shame
That will make it certain
Ever stamped on your name
Life demands a...
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Categories:
son, family, father daughter, father
Form: Rhyme
On the WayMy son and my grandson are up in the air
On the way to a tropical isle.
In an hour or so, they’ll be at their hotel,
Where the family has been for a while.
Sickness caused a delay,...
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Categories:
grandson, son, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Villanelle: Remembering Not to CallVillanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch
(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)
The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is remembering not to call.
Now the phone hanging on the wall
will never...
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Categories:
son, absence, children, death, eulogy,
Form: Villanelle
Observing Kindness
Observing kindness can bring one such joy.
Kindness to his mom, by a little boy.
Moms on the couch, all tired and unhappy.
The child asks, “does mommy need a nappy?
The family next door has four active boys.
They’re...
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Categories:
son, care, caregiving, friend, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
Fire Department Legend
Grandfather, Father, Son- three legends are:
they served their City service very well.
From 30s through the 80s, each a star;
as Firemen- many dangers each befell.
Three generations gladly took their stands;
not volunteers, but full-time, active shifts.
Grandfather in...
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Categories:
career, father son, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Father and Sun, AgainWhen the door's open, like a lady in waiting I tip my hat as she beamingly frets.
As I glimpse into the way she brings, the breath of Spring fills my very being.
I go to explore...
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Categories:
son, appreciation, blessing, day, father
Form: Personification
THE KING IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTENTHE KING IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
For the rest of my life, you will never be forgotten
Every day I will think of you again and again
My love for you will always be
And that will always...
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Categories:
cry, dad, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Still Be Missing YouI've got a lot for us to discuss,
Now that life is steadily on course.
We could have shared ideas and opinions
But Allah had exercised His majestic dominions;
Like shingles falling upon the roof,
Of'times that sounds like the...
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Categories:
africa, father son, loss,
Form: Ballad
What is a soul?Dad where is your soul?
Is it important, what's its role?
I keep reading of heart and soul
What part of me does it control?
Sweetheart it's hard to explain
It's not physical not like your brain
It is like...
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Categories:
son, 10th grade, allah, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Tender is the Touch
Categories:
son, baby, cry, growth, mother
Form: Rhyme
Grocery shopping with mum
It's always Aldi on a Sunday afternoon. You're always waiting with your shopping bags in hand, slowly trudging along with your walking stick. It takes you ten minutes to get into the car....
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Categories:
mother son, mothers day,
Form: Prose
Children's Poems XIChildren's Poems XI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
To My Child, Unborn
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
How many were the nights, enchanted
with despair and...
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Categories:
son, child, childhood, children, father,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IXThe Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch
Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.
The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all undone?
O, earthly son
when rest is won
and wrested from this ground,...
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Categories:
son, baseball, dark, death, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Son Poems
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birthday, daughter, forgive me, growing up, father to, inspirational, missing my, mother to
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