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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.


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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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,

Those Moments Don't Last
She’s afraid of what comes next, afraid that her body will fail her again, afraid that she’ll end up exactly like her parents,  distant,...

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Categories: 10th grade, family, lost

the silver teaspoons
two silver spoons, 
two completely different people
tied together by children, marriage, 
divorce
they shared a home 
two decades of life 
and then nothing 
just children; bound...

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Categories: family, absence, betrayal, childhood, divorce,

DNA
DNA

“You are not worthy of my love.”
Silent words scorch skin like an invisible flame.
DNA passed down and left to wither,
a family heirloom I don’t dare...

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Categories: anger, family, father, father

The House That Raised Me
I was built like the old oak table—
steady, bearing the weight 
of voices heavier than mine.
They spoke of storms I didn't start, 
left me to...

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Categories: childhood, daughter, family,

Premium Member Brother Billy

You are gone and I am okay.
In fact, I wanted it this way.
For you, life was a machete.
I always wished you to be free.

Leaving us...

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Categories: family, absence, addiction, brother, mental

Inheritance
They say I am like them.
They call my name as if it belongs to them.
They point at my face, at my hands,
at the blood in...

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Categories: anxiety, family, gender, grandfather,


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