Family Distance Poems

These Family Distance poems are examples of Distance poems about Family. These are the best examples of Distance Family poems written by international poets.

We sit and share blood the colour of wine
that ripples in glass on table which stretches 
stretches stretches oceans between us. You’re
there but afar and

© Thomas Harrison  

Though miles may stretch, and oceans lie,
Between us, vast and 'neath the sky,
A bond of blood, a kinship deep,
A love that time can never keep
From

© Selena Jackson  

Children's Poems VII

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Sailing to My Grandfather, for

© Michael Burch  

From tiny seeds
you sprouted; Tender
green shoots, so new

and impressionable.
Shoots that I serenaded 
and watered with love,

albeit only on occasion.
Then, you had bright petals
blooming from your

© Han Marlo  

long-distance marriage


I sat on the terrace, thinking of my children and their
mother who had lived in a pool behind the houses
She they became adults had

© Jan Hansen  

Morning
(Clouds in the distance.)

The sun rises, 
I watch from the wood porch. 
I have been up for hours... waiting. 
Unsure of the reason, 
other than

© Ann Foster  

For the love buds in me shall release
The love that seems not to cease
Likened to butter and cheese
We shall bond like two pods full of

© Davis Ssenoga  

When I walk in
you are sat 
with arms crossed
loosely
watching
two woodlice,
one trailing behind
too slow to keep up.
The light bulb,
too white
for a cosy 
living room,
is naked
without 
its

© Si Iq   

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Kris, so miffed having heard Blitzen say,

"You must shelter in place, Christmas day!",

drew a sip from his flask
through a rip in his mask,

then threw every

© Lycia Harding  

My back upon the bed, night's thickening dissolves. Awake, eyes open.
I see him lying  high, the silhouette of head, glint eye, arched back, 
tail

© Bob Kimmerling  

You don’t see me
You don’t believe it exists
That thing that is killing my brain
Little by little
Everyday, a little more
Until it’s all gone 
Until I’m gone
And

© Jean Obrien  

They are just four very lonely people
finding a few moments of joy with each other. 
All alone, yet with each other. 
Each exist in their

© Hiba Arif  

Distance between families
Distance between friends

The time apart hurts, not matter how much we pretend.

If you miss somebody
you should let them know

Hold and squeeze them tight,

© Samantha Margetts  

Long ago when grandaddy lived
Upon a tenant farm
Their closest neighbor lived a mile
Distance held its warm charm

After settling spell, work began
Each day held many chores
For

© Sara Kendrick  

Distance whether small or great-
Shall stump no more the hands of fate-
Sweet soul delighted, unlock the gate-
Hast now came upon a heavenly date-
Son and daughter-
Wife,

© Jordan Dickinson