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Premium Member The Family Line


Nerds, misfits, and flakes
my family line progenerates.
I’m the only one I hear
not odd, bizarre or weird.
Family members, naturally,
view me with suspicion,
they fear my normality
has ended a proud tradition.
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Categories: family line, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Family Line
Family Line

We each stand in one long line.
Back to Adam all Mankind.

The line is precious to our hearts;
Though it consists of many parts.

Country, race, and next of kin.
It is our future, and where we've been.

All riders on some cosmic bus;
Who are these folks that make...

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Categories: family line, bible, birth, christian, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Truncated Family Line
As her father.
I walk her down the aisle. 
 People in attendance say
 She looks like a princess
I agree.
It was not always so.
She was my only son.
Until he turned 18.
My only progeny.  
Then one day
he came to me.
And said father.
I feel strange.
I don’t feel,
I...

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Categories: family line, 12th grade, change, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



family line
i didn't like living in the house of my parents. i hated the constant stress and worrying that lay on my back as i fulfilled the duties of being their only son. i tried to make myself different from them, to distinguish that i was...

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Categories: family line, beautiful, dark,
Form: Prose

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry