Family Values
Sold on a cheapskate cheesing.
Cupcaked' by a cheesecake reasoning.
Kids, plenty for the
Cakewalk.
Kids, plenty to play
Hopscotch.
Kids, plenty of energy goes
Non-stop.
Disparaging remarks marked up by the
Loudmouth loosened by fool-proof
Foul Alchohol percentages.
It's far too soon to start with those
Remarks.
Gliding by.
Hiding behind our
Rollercoaters' ropes.
Ready to Ride,
Side by Side,
Since this high.
Goodbye.
Razor-sharp wit halved the delicate patience.
Good
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Categories:
family values, absence, first love, girl,
Form: Free verse
Family Values
Family Values
It made me feel good to see the family,
mother, father, son and daughter
sitting together on the spread blanket at the park
heads bowed around their picnic lunch, a tradition
of saying grace before the meal not often seen,
when they all look up at the same time, laugh and
point at the tweet just
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Categories:
family values, 12th grade, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Family Values 6-04
The values we adhere to
In this family of mine
The things we've always stuck to
They have surely done us fine
Although we stick together
We still give each other space
The friendliness and love we share
Would find in no other place
You know if you ever need me
I'll be at your beck and call
Be always there to catch you
If ever
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Categories:
family values, family,
Form: Rhyme
What Christmas Means To Me
By a cozy little fire
‘neath a soft lit Christmas tree
I just can’t help but think about
what Christmas means to me
I think about my Mom and Dad
so thankful they’re still here
though Dad was never really one
for lots of Christmas cheer
I think about my children
all grown up and on their own
each one doing all
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Categories:
family values, blessing, christmas, faith, family,
Form: Couplet
Another Sex Scandal Hits the Party of Family Values
Another sex scandal hits the party of family values
Another fall from imperial grace
Another pastor
Caught in a red hot sex scandal
He claims that his wife
Had an affair with a pool boy
Who tried to black mail him
The pool boy denies it
Says the man liked to watch
And it was a consensual affair
No black mail at all
But
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Categories:
family values, allegory, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Family Values
FAMILY VALUES
Foes have arisen in our day and age
And they have taken their act to the stage
Making their laws in the nation’s courtrooms;
It’s families they’re after to destroy and to doom.
“Let’s turn on the families”; they act to devour,
Yet the family’s the root of our nation’s great power.
Victory is certain when families are strong
And we
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Categories:
family values, family,
Form: Acrostic
Family Values Party
Healthy families can be quick to anger
but, if so, they have also learned to be quick to forgive,
forgiveness redeems anger and fear to again risk mutual trust.
Partisan political leaders are not leading when they,
immersed in adversarial power positions,
are slow to forgive.
Well, OK, forgiveness, like mutual mentoring,
and redemptive behavior,
is not part of our political rhetoric,
language,
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Categories:
family values, america, anger, conflict, family,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Family Values
they try to push me in the door
a good deed done for a boar
new pants and new shirt
just on night what could it hurt
waiting outside for the end
inside seems dead
the only one not dancing
instead homeward i'm glancing
two hundred feet away
with no wards to say
no need for a ride
just over the hurdle of pride
just one night
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Categories:
family values, night, night,
Form: I do not know?
On the Degradation of Family Values (By the Homosexual Agend
My mom is a rosebush
lovely and red
but if you are careless
you’ll wind up quite dead.
My dad is a slide rule
useful and endearing
whose entire career
has been engineering.
My bro is a penguin
laid-back and cool
who hangs out with buddies
his size up at school.
I am a journal
tucked out of sight
listening, watching
more chapters to write.
We are four
corners of a
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Categories:
family values, brother, childhood, family, father,
Form: Rhyme
Family Values
Family Values?
My great grandmother was your family values.
She scrubbed your floor and burped your baby, while my great grandfather
looked for work as a dishwasher.
When have you ever valued my family?
I work, my will work.
You give her six weeks maternity.
I have no pension, sometimes the tension the builds and I scream at my
daughter.
One time
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Categories:
family values, angst, history, passion, people,
Form: Blank verse