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Broken Family Poems - Poems about Broken Family


In Memoriam of a Broken Family
Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust. Six million irons, disjointed from their ores Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils. The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing Were uncoupled from their hives through Reichsbahn. However, a tensed, stale wind of discord swivel On the creeks of Dachau, Auschwitz, Treblinka And other shores of darkness. Never shall the bloody sky efface again The...

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Categories: broken family, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Language Without Words
I. they say there exist languages without words without syllables yet pronounced, like the sharp clatter of fork and spoon and knife against each other at dinners in our family. a vase shattered to the floor last night at an hour way past our bedtime. sister and i know that only one room in the house is embellished with a vase on...

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Categories: broken family, family, grandmother, how i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Never Broken Family Again
He tried hard not to break away But could not keep them together After all, he would never again stay So he left in search of life better Like scattered leaves after a storm Was the root of family foundation Aching high hearts were born To play their games of destruction Their home became colorless rainbow Dad said he wouldn't return again So with meager...

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Categories: broken family, divorce,
Form: Sonnet
Another Broken Family
They had to tear down the building They were cookin up the meth They had to relocated the children What a damn shame that it is. They had to take the adults down to the county jail they had to take all the children To a cps kind of hell Another broken family Another broken life Damn I hate this broken world I wish we could...

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Categories: broken family, abuse, grief, sick, drug,
Form: Verse
Broken Family
Despite the cries Despite the lies Despite the separation The suffer you caused The tears that came down running into an ocean The laughter that has been whipped out The voice unheard The right…taken… The will to let go, to not hang on to us… Despite…despite… Despite… Despite the memories, to look at the pictures To bear holding a photo album To bear flipping its pages To bear...

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Categories: broken family, family
Form: Free verse



A Broken Family With a Broken Heart
I'm here... wishing I had you in my life... again. You were my father... my daddy.... the one I looked up to. But you lost my respect... that day.... the day you left.... to never return. Divorce... I never knew the term when I was a littl'un, but it had become my life. I was living it... and didn't know it. My parents... divorced. When you left, my family was...

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Categories: broken family, childhood, depression, family, father,
Form: Free verse
Broken Family
Family can be great, But Family also can have much hate We sit around and wait For the day to recreate The love we used to have It will never be the same You said you would come, but never came Birthdays, Thanksgiving, and then Christmas & that was one thing on my wish list You don’t care about the important things in...

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Categories: broken family, confusion, family
Form: I do not know?
A Broken Family
Many people know the key points to having a HAPPY HOME. Many people fail to realize, the key points to maintaining a HAPPY HOME. Just because the bare necessities are being provided, does that make it a HAPPY HOME? When people are smiling on the outside, does that make the inside of the HOME HAPPY? Are the smiles,...

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Categories: broken family, family, life, happy, family,
Form: Verse
The Picture of the Broken-Family Through An Innocent's Eyes
She stands there – in front of the court Between Mom – Dad, and wonders… Here is Mom - she will marry a rich man And calls him, “husband” Will “Mom’s husband” love her as Dad does? Here is Dad - he will marry a pretty woman. And calls her, “wife” Will “Dad’s wife” love her as Mom does? She stands there -...

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Categories: broken family, family, loss, lost love,
Form: I do not know?

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