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Broken Family Poems

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


Divorce
Do you remember how it felt? 
Do you know what it feels like to feel worthless, not enough, to question love? 
Do you remember not...

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Categories: family, anxiety, childhood, depression, divorce,



Premium Member I miss my mom
I miss my mom.
I don’t remember much about her,
It’s been over a decade and a half since
I last saw her,
Before she faded into
The person she’s...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: family, abuse, anger, angst, daughter,

Insight, a Soliloquy
Insight must be difficult for you when you’re wounded so easily. You can’t show it, of course, to show your scars and flaws would be...

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Categories: abuse, dad, family,

Useless
I still wake to crisp morning air,
but hope dissolves right then and there.
As I open my eyes, I realize and sigh—
another day begins, and I...

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Categories: cry, depression, family, loneliness,

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 Colonizing Mars
Your car fishtailed in the slush
that was already 
beginning to freeze,
as if you couldn’t wait 
to get away after
dropping me off at
the library 
on Christmas...

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Categories: childhood, christmas, dad, family,

Premium Member A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a Doctor
This poem is featured in Dr. Ivan Edwards' upcoming anthology, Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics, published by IEME LLC. The book will be...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, family, inspiration,

Conversations
Conversations with my father,
Bittersweet, and maybe sad
Conversations with my father
Talks that we never had.
Companionably silent 
As we set off walking 
Neither of us known
For doing...

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Categories: family, father, i miss

Premium Member Alone in the Cemetery
"...Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken...

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Categories: family, bible, child, dad, death,

Final Letter From The Trenches
Dear Ma, if this letter finds
Your gentle hands, your quiet eyes,
Knowing I have fallen where silence climbs,
Beneath a blood-rubbed, broken sky.

The wind here howls like...

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Categories: family, 12th grade, appreciation, death,

Unspoken Words
Hearts crushed and broken.
Words unspoken. 
Still the pains remain.

Words left unsaid
Could heal instead
but left the ones in pain.

The time to run 
to make undone
the damage...

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Categories: family, anger, anxiety, character, faith,

I Am Alive
Why am I so different? Why does the world look at me as if I am broken and lost? Tragedy does not define me touched...

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Categories: family, abuse, beautiful, child abuse,

Premium Member HUMAN FAMILY TREE
Trees form an alliance…you might say they’re in cahoots…
with other trees and organisms that intertwine within their roots.

Pine, fir, palm, cherry, maple…it matters not what...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: family,

Messy Boys
Jibber jabber, pitter patter;
another one is screaming, now what's the matter?

Little feet, stinky feet,
how many rocks did you just eat?

Sticky hands, runny nose;
did you just...

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Categories: baseball, child, family, love,

Maybe She Survives
Her parents, distant as ever, don’t notice.  They’re caught up in their own lives, their own struggles, their own disconnection.  They don’t ask...

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


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