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.
Broken Boy
by Jacob Jones
I see you sitting in that chair
Your place of retirement
Your slave ship
I see the despair in your eyes
Once ruled with an iron fist
Now unable to...
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family, father son, i
Another Drop in the Glass
by Downed Jester
Another drop in the glass.
I see things from my past, which seemed happy but turn bad fast, seeing new faces around my house all the...
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Categories:
family, addiction, anger, blue, childhood,
Missing Kristen
by Wanda Daugherty
Missing Kristen
Bright blue eyes that sparkle;
And gentle chestnut curls.
She dances through my heart strings;
My skinny baby girl.
So proud to be her Grandma;
Even though I'm kind...
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Categories:
family, absence, grandchild, granddaughter, grandmother,
Like mother like daughter
by Taylor Holiday
Why did I not want to grow up to be her?
She who formed my world.
She whose body housed me,
and whose arms raised me.
How...
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Categories:
culture, family, history, identity,
The Son of Tyrants, Part I
by David Welch
I was born in far Morsania,
a small, backwater Eurasian state,
known to most folk in this wide world
for my grandfather’s prodigious hate.
My given name is Jocefeus,
but...
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Narrative
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Categories:
america, change, dark, family,
Bone Chyna
by Brianna Hobson
The collection of bone china
Stared up at her with eyes so cold and porcelain
A living dead effigy of her late grandmother
White as sawed bone and...
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Categories:
family, age, beauty, class, depression,
Dreams
by Meleaney Magofna
It’s in our dreams
No role models for kids, parents telling them lies
Preaching to lead by example, but you only show your disguise
Families can’t stay together,...
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Couplet
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Categories:
corruption, deep, dream, family,
Family killed me before I died
by Onwubuariri Jachinma
The little voice begging for love and freedom from classroom is mine
I am a child
Who harbours unspoken words and wavered feelings in my...
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Ode
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family, art, child abuse, death,
No Longer Superman
by M.P. Shaudd
Helped my son move into college
Just the other day
It was then that I had realized
What took my breath away
No longer was I his hero
I've become...
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Lyric
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Categories:
dad, family, father son,
Sabbath
by Brianna Hobson
There is a pain, an ache, a sore
that only oozes
on Sunday mornings
It's the croak of my mother's voice
the one she used to disown me
The...
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Categories:
atheist, faith, family, father,
Words to the Olympian
by Chisala Kataya
XV.X.MMVll - Words to the Olympian
I've rode horses all my life.
The metaphor being,
my life's always been an uncomfortable unsmooth ride.
I'd watched my mom her entire...
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family, beautiful, bereavement, death, deep,
Loving Togy
by curtis johnson
*I have Placed him on a bucket list as a person I would love to visit, and if possible, make some sense of what for...
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Categories:
family, forgiveness, friendship, love,
Family
by Colette Dright
Family is Togetherness -
Where there is hardship, struggle and heartbreak - There is Family
Where there is sorrow, tears and disappointment - There is Family
Where there...
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Narrative
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Categories:
appreciation, encouraging, family, love,
Broken english
by Tiffany Herrera
His broken english is nothing to be made fun of , it is not broken language but rhythmic music
The courage for him to adapt...
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Categories:
family, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty,
Family law
by Frankii Fame
Immaturity comes from lack of knowledge
That this sheltered woman was raised by
To not speak up against the man's ways
Lest to be served as an example
Made...
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Categories:
family, abuse, bullying, child abuse,
who I am
by Elissa Quigley
I am from desert rains beating on the roof calming weary eyes
I am from late night gazing at stars, letting imagination free to fly
I am...
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Categories:
family,
Family Tree
by Brianna Hobson
In a family of three
The two branches only love each other
They get pleasure from flanking the other
Third vine breaks in thunder
No apples to...
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Categories:
absence, conflict, creation, family,
A Ghost's Embrace
by Brenda Chiri
Future soul needs saved,
by a ghost from her past
Caring and loving presence,
a spirit none can surpass
A being that needs that touch,
advise from back in the...
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Rhyme
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Categories:
childhood, dad, daughter, family,
No old tale
by Afnan Jalil
I seek through the broken windows of my past
Glimpses of a distorted time in my soul casts
I lean to touch it with my pointed thumb
The...
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Rhyme
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Categories:
family, beauty, change, deep, devotion,
Finally Found A Family Feud
by James Horn
Finally Found A Family Feud
What we finally found was family feud,
Full of many lies and often did delude;
No joking;
Family broken;
Their each part now existed in...
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Limerick
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Categories:
family, allegory, analogy,