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Motherless
My mother believed kids should be seen and not heard
And that teens have no right to be sad
They contribute nothing, everything is done for them
What...

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Categories: motherless, daughter, family, mother, mother
Form: Rhyme



Motherless Child
You walk around without a clue
The memories you've missed, have also missed you
Yet you keep on going without looking left or right
The big picture is...

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Categories: motherless, absence, abuse, childhood, conflict,
Form: Couplet
When You'Re Gone
When You're Gone

My darling precious Mamacita
before you go,
before your last breath is drawn,
I just want you to know
how much I love you so.

Please forgive everything...

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Categories: motherless, farewell, grief, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MOTHERs DAY-THREE YEARS LATER
Mother’s Day-Three Years Later

I may speak to you
as a still portrait on the wall
no wailing
ghosts don’t present
only those of memories
especially
clasping the cross
between my fingers
as it...

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Categories: motherless, grief, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from...

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Categories: motherless, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member A Woman's Self Worth
A Woman's Self-Worth, is highest among all, for it was a woman, God created, in thy divine holy image.  Friendships, relationships, and holy matrimony,...

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Categories: motherless, christian, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Lament For the Dead
Lament for the Dead

buried deep beneath
Twin Towers’ bloodstained rubbles
my murdered loved one

a heartbroken heaven wept 
trapping joy in a time warp…




In memory of Alva Sanchez...

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Categories: motherless, bereavement, death of a
Form: Tanka
A Father To the Fatherless
My shelter from the storm
My Fountain in the wilderness
My Refuge and my Rock

High King of love, God of all grace
You have become my hiding place

My...

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Categories: motherless, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Name
Premium Member Threesome - Now a Bawdy Collaboration
One evening Bob nervously said
I kinda like three in a bed
She said I’ve got friends
And each of them tends
To share the desires in your head

The...

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Categories: motherless, desire, humorous, lust,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Tribute To Orphanage Moms As Life Builders
Life building is your calling
upon faith strength, prevailing
trusting God Who’s propelling
your mission in care-giving.

With the Lord propping your zest
patience you show by love’s best
steadfast though...

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Categories: motherless, appreciation, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Two Poems About the Iroquois
Ruler of the Cataracts-Maiden of the Mist

The thundering waters of the Niagara.
Voice of the mighty spirits of the water.
The natives believed and yearly sacrificed
a white...

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Categories: motherless, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sad Tale You May Want To Skip
True stories are often the saddest, so go to another poem if you 
are afraid of this one.
Seventy-five years ago a Mommy died leaving a...

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Categories: motherless, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Witchcraft
Now here’s a tale spun with rattlesnakes
Stung into the eyes of motherless guilt
Now turn the head! Open the mouth!
For all to see, and so, too,...

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Categories: motherless, fantasy
Form: Free verse
The Value of Love
Fatherless Motherless
I am lonely in this planet
And my world is boundless
Where is the sea?
Where is the narcissus?
I am entrapped among wings of birds
In this planet
And...

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Categories: motherless, love,
Form: Rhyme
I Hate Mother's Day
Its been over 27 years coming
 this missive or letter,
 maybe poem ? 

I HATE Mother’s day !!
 with a passion ... I've said it...

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Categories: motherless, bereavement, forgiveness, love, missing
Form: Free verse

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