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.
MoreMore fool me
For hoping you would change,
You promised me the world
Yet everything’s the same.
I’ve told you that I’m broken
And I can barely cope,
You said you’d...
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Categories:
break up, divorce, family,
What becomes of a world?The trees ache with a pain only those who have witnessed true horror
The swinging rope moping for it had been turned to a killer...
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Categories:
discrimination, family, funeral, metaphor,
Oh, Wounded Warrior Oh, Wounded Warrior.
Battle lines and battle scars
hidden in plain sight.
Many of us now asking
was it really worth the fight?
Some of us wear uniforms.
Some of...
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Categories:
anger, conflict, courage, family,
DivorceDo 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,
I miss my momI 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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Categories:
family, abuse, anger, angst, daughter,
Insight, a SoliloquyInsight 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,
UselessI 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,
PETER GARGANO HATE CRIMES AGAINST MY DISABLED FAMILYTHE 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,
Colonizing MarsYour 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,
A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a DoctorThis 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,
ConversationsConversations 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
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 TrenchesDear 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 WordsHearts 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 AliveWhy 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,