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Best Family Life Poems

Below are the all-time best Family Life poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of family life poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Rose For Rita
Here’s to the travellers,
   the passengers, the tourists
who trek this alien landscape
   in search of experience.

Here’s to the resilient,
  ...

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Categories: family life, death, family, life,
Form: Free verse



Forty Today
Visited you today
as the sun set in the horizon…

the orange tinged carnations 
were a perfect complement 
for the skies
and for you… 
orange and blue
always remind...

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Categories: family life, brother, dedication, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three Wishes
If I had three wishes and knew that they’d come true.
I’d go back in time.  There are things that I’d redo.
I wouldn’t do them...

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Categories: family life, appreciation, family, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Letting Go
Their lives begin, that special day
Your hardest job, is on the way.
Walking and pacing, all night long
Knowing that one day, they’ll be strong.

Watching them crawl,...

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Categories: family life, family, life, teen, timeparents,
Form: Rhyme
The Woman
See the woman.

See the face behind its age.
See the beauty of her form.
See the way her way becomes her.
See past her once taught skin, as...

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Categories: family life, dedication, family, life, love,
Form: Free verse



Like a Rock
I carry my mother 
like a rock in my pocket 

that I just can’t seem to throw away 

It serves me 
no purpose, 
it just...

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Categories: family life, childhood, confusion, daughter, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memories On Branches
Memories on branches live on and on -
multiplying since the world’s first dawn.
Fresh and beautiful in spring are we -
buds that blossom on our family...

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Categories: family life, family, life, seasons,
Form: Quatern
Dont Fade
NOTE:  This poem means a lot to me for it brings back memories of my childhood. My father, a WWII veteran was, in my...

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Categories: family life, children, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Background
This enlisted soul
At eighteen years old
Barely a man
Not even street wise told

From the proms, to the camp
He kits out tomorrow
His future he stamps
Never knowing bloodied...

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Categories: family life, family, life, war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Football, Beer, His Car and Kid
-The Same Old SongS-

That's all he ever talks about 


~SKAT~...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: family life, abuse, addiction, brother, family,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In the Meadows Is My Dream
IN THE MEADOWS IS MY DREAM

Strolling, strolling we are in the meadow: airy and green
where asters, dahlias, nod and wink passing their green

With him by...

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Categories: family life, beautiful, environment, family, life,
Form: Ghazal
Timeless Love
They met at first around sixteen,while they were in their teens.
A young man tall and handsome, a girl with many dreams.
Years later they did meet...

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Categories: family life, family, life, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Breath of Love
I wander in the nature’s green, trees in rows the birds preen
Like a gem glimmers the morning dew, with a precious diamond’s hue
And flowers bloom...

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Categories: family life, blessing, family, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Grandpa's Study
The room is still,
Quiet but for wind and rain
Making music on the windows.
Empty but for endless shelves
Of leather-bound volumes -
The first editions you loved so...

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Categories: family life, family, life, loss, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - a Bed of Flowers -
An aged rusty bed 

                    ...

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Categories: family life, family, life,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things