Love Child Poems

Oh child of mine with wayward thought.
 Remembering naught that which I've taught.
Those things of wisdom to make you strong.
Those morals of right rather than...

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Filial Child 

Halfway to heaven, 
so thrilled to be saved.
My life, 
changed forever.
Filled with your spirit,
wrestles to serve. 

On fire…
in the night,
running through the streets,...

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Children
by Michael R. Burch

There was a moment
suspended in time like a swelling drop of dew about to fall,
impendent, pregnant with possibility ...

when we might have...

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Birthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch

LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,

Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;

come dwell again,
happy child among men—

men rejoicing...

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First Steps
by Michael R. Burch

for Caitlin Shea Murphy

To her a year is like infinity,
each day—an adventure never-ending.
She has no concept of time,
but already has begun...

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I am His child and I shall always ever be
I am His child and I shall always ever be
Lavishly my Father 
Has lavished me
How great...

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Children come and children go.
And in between we watch them grow.
Through the good times and the bad.
Through happy moments as well as the sad.

We heal...

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Sit pudor, o virgines Felix
there is a gift from Christ to mankind,
there is no love, they cannot.
no love, um des Hasses willen!
Mankind loves not to...

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Forever I had groomed her for this day,
I felt as thought my heart would burst with pride,
Her dad stood there to give our girl away,
As...

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Dead inside
Growing up in a home with little love and a mother who distanced herself and always felt she had to push me away.
No hugs...

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Should we shed the boy and be a man?
Shoot of spirit wild -to be tamed in the tamed land.
Where is the proof that this cynical...

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As a child I loved playing with teddy bears,                ...

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I look back at a time
When I was too young to decide
She had the power to choose
If I could make it or not
And I had...

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Written by Gail DeBole
on March 11, 2020


- Putting together a scrapbook of your child’s best moments
- Creating an heirloom bedspread out of old T-shirts for...

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Dancing Star

Precious child – Dancing Star -
I created no other star like you;
Precious light your restless feet
Ran across Heaven’s blue;
A rising, shooting star in the...

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Parents: He’s fine but just on the spectrum
Slightly dyslexic, number blind and 
A tadge autistic and is allergic to
Snails, bees and litmus paper.
He needs a...

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On frozen lands
Did our home lie
Its chimney full of smoke
And heat inside
Kept us alive
While our father spoke

Come here children
Gather around
And hear what I must say
It’s...

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Of The Day..the hope that ran away..
The many faces..filled with fear .
The many places..coming near..
So what if you don't know me..
    I...

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'MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE'

The name of my Grandmother's
house is the same with the name of my Grandmother's town.

My Grandmother's love is formless.
Grandmother found me formless.
My Grandmother's...

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How did my Nanny know of the horrors that went on in our home?  Was it the palpable fear in my eyes, or her...

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