Best Kinship Poems

Rat to Bat: "Sir, up close you look like a rat.
I"d like to call you cousin 
if you won't mind that."

Bat to Rat: " No, impudent rodent, you're crass,
denizen of the gutter 
without a touch of class.

You creep while I swoop, you crawl while I...

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People come to tell me your weaknesses
They come with a list of vices and faults
When they are done, I laughed out their meanness
But they make me love you more for your faults.
Our relationship assigned forever          ...

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‘`’`’`’`’’’’’’```

From diverse time zones, we gather
knitting words for all soupy friends 
united by warmth and laughter
from diverse time zones, we gather
Language of praises, we saunter
beyond hearts, kinship never ends
from diverse time zones, we gather
knitting words for all soupy friends 



 ©triolet/ 8 syl count

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© 2010 (Jim Sularz)

Caught a kinship from Ellis Island, 
sailed to craggy shores across the pond. 
Burnished bayonets shimmered in a bright warm sun,
on a Western Front by dawn. 

Surging waves of men in full retreat, 
pungent death was everywhere. 
Screams from sweet smelling poison...

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From Maidum staired beginning
Walk me north to Cairo
But keep your eyes on the pole star
The moon meanders like a whore
From year to year waxing bright
From bed to bed in spans of light
Her cycles wane in short decades
Across the desert of Chaco's memories.
Return to Dashur, Saqqara,...

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Kinship 

On my knees,
I found the broken pieces 
were all about our broken treaties. 
So singular,
Less materialistic shrieks.
This was your demanded  'relationship' ,
Where I was dead under 
your beloved 
'kinship'.


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In celestial pristine panorama of nothingness, 
primal photon restless in the vacuum milieu,
undefined in the cauldron of infinity.
Explosive singularity of the creation 
conceived matter of the God particles,
encrypting the cosmic algorithm of existence,
decoded in the spread of space on time.
Essence of creator’s particles in everything...

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His offer of kinship derided,
by the snobbish bat insulted, 
the much humiliated rat said:

"Bat, you're rude, without civility,
I'm glad we don't have affinity.
Skin-winged mouse, your boasts are many.
Feet up, head down, you look stupidly funny.
One day you'll end up flip-flopping down
and crawl with us on...

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Our way of looking at people traverses
The complex multi-layered perception
Manifested in the myriad motifs
We design for the animated images.

The superficial visual discernment
Transforms transiently into deep sensitivity
Takes symbolic shapes on the mental screen
Our focused inner sight desires to see in people.

The external attributes of appearance per...

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The kidhood friends duo in action
Ignited my poetic passion
With twin torrents of hair in pic
Bestows me the joy cascadic
What a way to appear on screen
Well, it's enlightened me umpteen
Inspiring is the bond unique
Between these belles prolific
A wish gushes from heart mine
May their kinship be intact...

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Beneath the cusp of Sagittarius
The archer stands to aim his arrow bold
Poised to reign on heaven's great nebulous
To pierce winter's heart to usher the cold

Early frost kindles blazing hearths inside
Where huddled happy souls snuggle by fire
And speak kindred words of future Yuletides
Festively singing with voices...

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All the voices of the ages recognized within our own, 
these few words we know, arranged and rearranged, 
to shape our hearts that you may know us, 
say the things that make life matter, 
stay the ash that fires scatter, 
make of us a moment...

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gathered ‘round the table
smiles match, a kinship
develops in an instant
when Trust makes an entrance
dressed in fiery blue
souls warm then weave together
our differences subside
as Trust sits down to dine

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I feel like we could 
sing one of those righteous
civil rights anthems.

“We shall overcome”
goes to the pandemic point,
and we could hold hands.

Our kinship is dear, and earned,
with simple sacrifices.
Our struggle isn’t over....

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Conflict wages war -
yet the good soldier desires
true kinship, through peace.

When shall people see?
That love and kindness don't make -
a moral man weak.

Unity and grace -
wisdom, guidance, courage, love.
Does, a true man, make!




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