Best Raised(A) Poems

When I was a child everyone’s mother on my block corrected me.
Every adult in the neighborhood watched me vigilantly, carefully.
Watching for me to do something wrong,
So they could call my mother.
On the way to school I sometimes took a risk,
Knowing full well I’d get a...

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Thinking of Suzanne – Raised on Radio

Raised on radio, I still listen
to haunting love songs that sadly
remind me of you, lovely Suzanne, 
of times when we couldn’t get enough
of each other, body and soul blazing with fire.
Oh Baby, I prayed with all my heart
that it...

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YOU RAISED ME HIGHER 

Lord, you raised me from a child
Have stood by me as I walk miles
Trying to find faith and peace
A home, a friendly face, at least
I had no home, no parents, and no friends
The trauma I saw, I didn’t think would end
As...

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Expressions so deep that I feel within,
Has made me realize, it's time to begin.

Thoughts so tender and abrupt as well,
Exuberant so few that I just can't tell.

Capturing the essence of what it is to be,
Learning to be gentle and living so free.

The virtues of many...

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To the woman who loved and raised me
To her who brought meaning of life at home
A queen who reigned supreme without a crown 
She cared and valued mine life as her own 
Willing to give up her life for mine sake 
For nine moons her...

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I was raised on a little old farm

by my daddy who raised pigs in a barn

my mama  well what can I say

she helped my daddy on our farm everyday.

I have two sister and two brothers

we tried to always help out one other

it was just...

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I KNOW I SAW HIM YESTERDAY 
HE SPOKE TO ME OF LOVE
"IT COMES WITH A FRIEND"
HE SAID."ONE FROM UP ABOVE".
THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED 
WITH HIS HEALTH
QUIETLY HE PASSED AWAY
RELATIVES AND FRIENDS
WEPT AND PRAYED
FOUR DAYS SEALED
WITHIN THE TOMB
WHEN HIS BEST FRIEND
CAME TO SEE, MANY TEARS
HIS BEST FRIEND...

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A child of the 60’s, I was raised on radio.
Times were changing, and it was a great time to live,
for the songs made you want to be good to yourself,
be happy to love and be happy to give!

By ‘69, with cosmetics I played.
The eyes of...

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Suzanne has the eyes of a woman, but the heart of a lonely child
She was raised on the radio, as an escape from the world
in a house without love, or the warmth of a smile.
No positive touch, to guide her along
No one to hold her,...

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My father raised roses from the very root
     they grew in straight, taunt, magnificent shoots.
They stretched high determined to touch the sky’s very brink
     in blooms of mammoth reds, whites, yellows and pinks.
They caught the eye with...

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three women with points on their licenses to the tomb of Jesus they ventured
as they had a love for our Savior that was totally uncensored
they were told that the Roman soldiers over His tomb were standing guard
but they had a need to consecrate His body...

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the raised mound
resulted in change some felt oddly profound
suddenly taller
vertiginous fear has affected the smaller....

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THE RAISED HAND

‘Hold my hand’ said the mom, breezing across with a raised hand;
The traffic obeyed her hand; the boy too held on and ran across.
I learned a lesson; waving my hand like a leader, I tried to cross.
Brakes were pressed; wheels avoided me; I...

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I was raised by dark smoke filled rooms,
sittin in the corner where the fear looms.
Across the hall where the fear hides,
The room long and wide.
Down the stairs,
 My anger flares.
In the kitchen where there is little food,
Which only darkens my mood.
My body shaken,
My anger awaken.
This...

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Parting those slender legs she raised her bare feet in the air,
she was fully ready with her slim body resting on the palms,
next moment she threw herself--a perfect landing on her feet.





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