Broken Family Poems

Ray of Sunshine 



When we were young and went out into  the world ,we chose to give in 
When we could no longer hold...

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The feet of twenty cousins were trampling and pounding the floor
As my Aunt Pearl's house trembled and suddenly became smaller.
We were racing with the games...

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The Fashion Zebra

I am a flake. 
That is the term for people that do not follow through. 
It may not be fair. I have spent...

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Mirror Mirror

Do not lie. I know that you want to. 
I know that you may need to.  
I am broken, and soon…
You will be...

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One day my grandad slipped away,
His face sunk into a waxy, pale grey,
With a sudden stillness and a wave of your hand,
You have ventured off...

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She is rarest of them all - 
Me little wee mum, only four feet tall! 
Strong but kind, firm yet fair; 
Roses for her pretty...

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Family Holiday

Just got Home

Suitcase Open

Full of Dirty Washing

I dare not wash the Love Out

Heart Broken

Left with only Photographs 

To File in said Gallery

Until Next Time







...

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A Decade Ago
In a few hours it will be a decade since 
I saw they did to their so called pal
Putting 2x 9mm Parabellum slugs...

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“It was a race
going to my place,
our emotions out of control,
went for the bed
and my lust-filled head
focused only on it’s one goal.

“Our clothes were tossed,
they...

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Life is about making decisions -we do it every day.
What to bring into our life - and what to throw away?
What will make us happy...

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Some say they from a broken family
I’m not but nowadays its broken anyway
punished when in trouble had to take responsibility 
picked apart by my troubles...

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You are the first thing 
I think of when I wake. 

The sky outside is blue, 
But I pray it is bluer for you. 

If...

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Today my heart feels sorrow
Saying goodbye is hard to do
But I will cherish every moment 
The memories I have of you

It's been the hardest thing...

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How Absurd it Seemed


Ah, those memories, so well refined, reworked, revised to meet the failings of memory – or the shame of remembrance.  Tinged...

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Sitting on the front steps of a long porch
In the middle of the deep south
Little Billy looked up at his drunk dad
Hanging on to every...

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My childhood ...

A tree full-to-overflowing
Branches weighty with fruit, blossoms
Each, a sweet memory of life ... family
Summers on the lake, winters in the mountains

The loving, teaching...

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Mother lies on the floor
She has sunken into the marble
Her bones crumbled and broken at odd angles
She drowned in the sea of her tears.

Father is...

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WHY I LOVE MY SON
 It isn't what you've done in life
 My reason for loving you
 It is not because you are more handsome
...

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Dad had threatened for some time to reclaim the land behind the shed,
where rubbish over many years, had stockpiled but now instead
of being easy to...

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In Truth, He Lies, She Cries

"Kevin"

Drug buy,
for one it went good.
Drug buy,
for one it went bad.

You see Kevin,
wore high heeled sneakers.
You see Kevin,
was his junkies'...

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