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Mother Child Poems

These Mother Child poems are examples of Child poems about Mother. These are the best examples of Child Mother poems written by international poets.


Illegitimate Child
I was born in absence—
not just of a father,
but of the myth of one.
Raised by silence,
I searched for manhood
in shadows and wounds.

My name is Oedipus...

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Categories: character, child, childhood, children,



Premium Member Girly-Girl
Crown of gold curls in rainbow wrappers.
Girly-girl, at two, favored to be beautiful.
Eyelids delight to be painted baby-girl green.
Dolly’s lascivious lashes soaked in black ink.

Innocent...

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Categories: beauty, child, girl, growing

Dear Mother
For Dwina, in celebration of Talia's
graduation from high school.

Dear mother, warm around me--
tender home for just this while;
so close together, you and I
I feel good...

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Categories: baby, birth, celebration, child,

A Mother, a Soliloquy
The best compliment I have ever received is, “You’re going to be a wonderful mother one day.” I adore the idea of having children, treating...

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Categories: baby, caregiving, child,

Premium Member father's day
Zero. 
I imagine you watched,
With awe and wonder
At the image on the screen,
My movements 
In black and white,
As the sonographer moved the wand,
Up and down
The...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: child, daughter, father, father



Premium Member You Will Follow Your Heart
the child’s fate line split her palm
Deep and deliberate, it favored mystic crosses
the soothsayer had never seen such a palm
she had heard of the possibility,...

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Categories: child,

Toddler Hulk
I’m thinking of a person 
Who is strong and resilient. 
Big in personality but size is small. 
When mad, they turn a green pigment. 
All...

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Categories: brother, child, childhood, children,

wish
I wish I could put into words the love a mother has for her child. It is a depth that no one else can reach....

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Categories: blessing, child, daughter, love,

Premium Member STRONGER THAN YOU THINK
Oh, my, unexpected foe, “when you read my poems 
you wrongly judged me, and in a demeaning tone
shouted, “Do you ever write poems that are...

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Categories: abuse, anti bullying, child

Premium Member June Bug

My little cousin, Junior, lost his mom when she was only 39 and he was 9. It was such a devastating time for him –...

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Categories: blessing, child, childhood, june,

Premium Member A Fevered Night, Unscheduled Departure II
I creep into your room, my steps are unsteady,
You went to bed with symptoms of the flu,
A soft child’s breath is what I seek,
To touch,...

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Categories: child, courage, emotions, inspirational, loneliness,

My first born
My firstborn son, my heart’s new dawn,
Your tiny cry, the light that shone
In that first breath, I learned to be
The mom I’d always longed to...

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© JRE JRE  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: child, baby, birth, family, i

Heavy Quiet
Separated from the world by a thin wooden door,
here silence speaks of a world no more.
An unbreakable bond just turned to dust,
betrayal’s darkness, detached trust.
Bearing...

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Categories: children, conflict, dark, feelings,

Who Am I Now
I was your mom before i was anything else,
My name, before my plans,
Before the life i thought i’d have—
I was yours.

Now the world keeps turning,
But...

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Categories: change, child, death, grief,

Premium Member Dawn to Dusk 2
Sproing!
What's that?
Joyful sun,
shining brightly,
ready for some fun,
radiant and sprightly.
Will my mom make me pancakes,
or will I scarf down Frosted Flakes
before I romp 'neath your warmth...

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Categories: child, joy, moon, mother,


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