Family Ballad Poems

Your family is the backbone,
Of your life.

It helps you survive.

God kneels down and gives you a kiss,
Each time you are in a mess.

Prayers come in...

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He Always Loved Her

The loving man in the neighborhood remembers the day she was born
into the world.  He heard just how happy her parents...

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I had not seen my sister in six years.
It was a long time for us; we are identical twins.
And close.

We finally got together with our...

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Brick houses gone, wood houses gone
Family histories blown away
No photos or proof of life
2.8 billion dollars worth of damage

Devastation for a mile. 
One house standing,...

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All I do all day is think about you & check your school app to see how your day is going, don't ever let anyone...

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People choose your side
Know that you are satisfied 
And if you are defeated 
Wonder if at home you’ll be greeted

But returning will not always work...

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Mi and You
are lovers.
Mi's name is
Mi Whoomp.
Mi Whoomp
is from the woodwinds
She is smooth a
sounds more of a
 bassy tenors tone.
You's name is
longer than Mi's, You's...

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This story is one of great rapport 
About a boy and a pasty long told evermore
And an auntie who really couldn’t cook
Who made a pasty...

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We barely talk anymore guess the honeymoons over, this would be the time I relapsed if I was sober, but I'm not upset with you...

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Lolita is an endangered southern Orca being
held in captivity.  Daily she is crying out
to her pod vainly.

For whenever  she out in her tears,
her...

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From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched...

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His parents' worst nightmare that left them disheartened
is the sad tragic tale of Dennis Lloyd Martin

On a family outing at Cades Cove park
Dennis, his brother...

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Telling "White Lies"

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,

experienced grinding poverty, no
matter...

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Oh mother oh mother oh motherly 
be,
woe would be the world without 
thee,
you fed us when we were
hungry,
you clothed us when we were
cold,
you cooled us...

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Oh, lord
what’s the use in tryin’? 
Nothin’s turned out
the way I planned. 
I got the whole world
tellin’ me I’m dyin’. 
Think I’ll just lie here...

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(thank you All Poetry, Facebook, family
Poetry Soup,... et cetera global friends.)

A network of cherished kinships allied
forged, and linkedin analogous
to union of groom and bride
thru electronic...

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The sun shines down
On old Adelaide town
With the only thoughts of snow
Are on the Christmas TV shows 
For we have 40 degrees
And look for our...

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The history of my family is interesting to me
When looking at reasons of why some things I see
It seems the German side of the family...

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My Christmas Tree 

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree where is your home.

You stand so tall, such greenery delight.


Your poise is bold reaching upward always

Such...

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Just a few days to Christmas
So much to do 
Mum has decided 
We’ll have a barbecue

Dad’s at the bank 
Taking out some money
Baby’s in his...

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