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Black Family Poems

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


Premium Member A Family - The Stones
Sponsor	Oliver Mckeithan  Contest Name	Stones Poems.  6/7/25
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WILD HORSES would not tear me away from you sweet one.
ANGIE our family is complete now we have...

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Categories: family,



Premium Member In The Mouth of Desire
The summer heat was turned up to blasting with a huge yellow sun looking down. Our sweat had sweat. If only there was a breeze...

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Categories: family, celebration, fun, july, summer,

Premium Member A Season of Smiles - Updated x2
In January, the kaboom of fireworks
Redefining glitter above us: What if
The sky was pink, should purple rain besmirch us
Yet, don a cheer for New Year.

In...

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Categories: appreciation, celebration, family, life,

Crows and me
Sitting in the balcony, I sit blank and stare
Two crows in the tree, some flying in the air
They hop and play without care or worry
I...

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Categories: family, 10th grade, angst, betrayal,

When We Say Goodbye
When we say goodbye,
Time will not stand still.
Life moves on as it always has,
Forsaking my own will.

Don’t try to feel sad—
I’ll know it’s all a...

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Categories: family, absence, death, eulogy, farewell,



Premium Member PETER GARGANO HATE CRIMES AGAINST MY DISABLED FAMILY
THE BREAK INS BEGAN IN THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SAN CARLOS BEACH PETER WAS THE TREASURY HE BECAME BITTER ANGRY WHEN HE SAW MY GRANDFATHER...

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Categories: family, allah,

Premium Member Memory Revisiting
black cherry dusk skies
and moon rose, it was silver
butterfly quivers

the gemmed stars were out
and Mom tending blooms, singing
clematis clinging

jade dragonfly lake
comes again in memory
with anemones

Dad...

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Categories: beauty, family, flower, memory,

Premium Member Superfly Cool In the Wonder Years of the Ghettoverse
I wonder if Pops will lie out in his trademark bell-bottoms—faded denim flares that split the air like his cool, bending time, making room for...

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Categories: family, black african american, childhood,

Reclaiming the absence
To be a good father You already have to be a good man But apparently he couldn't be either guess it was just easier For...

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Categories: betrayal, children, family, mental

The voices we should hear
I opened my mouth to let them speak
They told us their story of black fatigue
I let their words seep through me
Pen to paper their stories...

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Categories: family, appreciation, color, race,

When I look into my grandmother's eyes
When I look into my grandmother's eyes
I see what she's had to sacrifice 
When I look into my grandmother's eyes 
I see a lifetime of...

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Categories: color, discrimination, family, history,

Coat of Arms: For the Quiet and the Fierce
A silver shield—
not polished,
but burnished with time,
like moonlight caught in stone.
This is not a banner of conquest,
but of endurance.

At its center: a fox,
mid-step, not snarling—
alert,...

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Categories: family,

Premium Member THE ROYAL FAMILY BOONEY BLACK APRIL 1979
ABSOLUTLY NO FEAR OF YOUR THREATS FROM 1959 BASIC HEROIN ADDICT ADDICTED TO FENTANYL TODAY THE ROYAL FAMILY SPEAKS PERHAPS THROUGH SAINT ROYAL PLACE WHEN...

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Categories: family, allah,

Premium Member BEING DISABLED AND CARING FOR A DISABLED FAMILY IN AMERICA
ANTHONY AND YOLANDA WE HAVE NORMAL DAYS GOOD DAYS AND TRYING ONES EACH REWARDING IN ITS ON WAY O DRIFT BACK ME WEARING WIRES PREGNANT...

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Categories: family, allah,

Darkness Less Than Light
Darkness is scary, not only because it contains the unknown, but because it IS the unknown. 

It can infest, transform, manipulate and takeover our souls....

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Categories: family,


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