Best Custody Poems

Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too interested,
to avoid temptations
of lust and envy and gossip,
to avoid that...

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No one wins in custody battles,
The children get shuffled back and forth 
like cattle,
It's bad enough their family life has come 
to a halt,
They have to keep reliving the horrors,
thinking it's their fault,
The feelings of wounds being aggravated by salt,
The partnership of parents may end,
but...

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Love, these days were so dark
Frequently rain kissed the ground
This is the moment when mellow tries to embark
Right after the thunder shouts, echoing its mighty sound

Love, these days I sink into numbness
Blank pages haunt my enthusiasm
Chasing days without any sense, am I getting dumb?
Or is...

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LUCIFER STARED HARD AT ME,FUMING:

INCISORS GLEAMING HOT,MENACING-

BLACK BLOOD CRAWLING FROM THE RIGHT EYE

WHICH MADE ME GO TREMBLE .

 

"THOU RENDETH MY GARMENT-

AN ENJOYED THE EXERCISE-

HI! HA! WHERE NOW ART THOU?

THAN AT HOME AND LAMENT."

 

MY SOUL STARED,SHOCKED AND 'FRAID-

"WHERE STANDS HE THAT YOU WORSHIPPED?
WON'T HE...

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IN THE CUSTODY OF HIS HOPE

The common denominator of human life
Rode his pale horse past our house today;
And our lessened numbers paid the price—
God had chosen—His will had been sent our way.
Grief, the child of love, came and prayed with us;
With shared emotions, we gathered...

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Aquamarine waves
lap pristine rugged shorelines
casting call for beat
bohemic coral ballets
hip sandy beach applause



(This poem made the first PS Anthology, but disappeared 
from my list.)...

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Jesus was a patristic carpenter,
a non-nationalistic builder
of goodnews communal structure,
a nonviolent communicating leader,
a multispirit-natural facilitator,
divinely humane bilateral
spiritual health is natural wealth
facilitator of recreative green
and blue
and red-blooded sensory communion.

I am a mere custodian
of messianic intention,
practice,
discipline,
caring for co-empowerment,
vocational integrity,
ecopolitical EarthHealth and Safety
re-enlightenment,

A custodial health care giver
and wealth...

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His point-blank, most promising laurel lost
Long, long his e'er-lasting longing lingers
His muse becomes bedridden under freezy frost 
Yet his nikhedonic mindscape ne'er malingers
Surging from mood's winters and merging its splinters
Ramrodding illusion-edified effulgences into his emulous edacity
Without knowing whether with reluctance or with alacrity...

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Silently...
   broken 
fingers
court the notion,
painfully 
embracing
the very fabric of your 
dreams

once hopelessly lost,
now...
perhaps to find
solace in those ghostly
arms,
enshrouding some
misguided love,

a marriage 
undertaken
 in the 
worlds
between
the waking and the
midnight hour,

you strain to see yourself
pronouncing
the sweetest of sacraments,
a ring around the body
brightens,
unspoken testaments
to purify the...

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The Environment of Prosody 
Suits not ‘Courts’ stand on Child custody,
Silly scratching up some melody 
For what to a party is bloody 
And might only excuse Threnody…

Its pains to father losers much stiff, 
Court rooms they leave like some Child Thief 
For - yes -...

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BLACK LIVES
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My friend bridles. Huh! All lives matter. Is she is being 
deliberately obtuse? Should I add ‘’too’’ or ‘’do?’’

She adds, I’ve blacks in my family. We had
indigenous girls in nursing school. Never
treated them any differently. U.S.  blacks
are lucky not to be back in...

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Little people, funny creatures
Once so  fragile now so strong
Little people, who are you now? 
To me no more do you belong.

I wait so fearful, apprehensive 
Who am I to be?
Was once their world, their eager faces 
Eternally turned to me.

I doubt, I fear, I...

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The custody evaluator’s
Grand plan,
Playing God with
Other people’s lives,
What could
Possibly go wrong....

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Family unity, ties bound with conditions
Cult peoples kept from alternate climates
Narrow track administered to every woman
Mother of two, Jerusha determined to fight it

Prospect of allowed departure non existant
Packed full backpacks for herself, Cain, Ismail 
Heart racingly taken, stealth taxi whisked them
Latitude of escape seeped freedom's...

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It isn't just incompetence
That leads a custody evaluator
To to clean up messes
For bad actors,
To justify
The unjustifiable,
To gloss over
The vital,
It isn’t just incompetence,
It's the rotten system
That the custody evaluator
Has been marinating in.
...

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