Brother Family Poems

Beautiful
Passionate am I, renown in faith, forgiving and remarkably empathetic.
My eldest sister Karen died tragically, one brother Joe and another sister Jen.
I love animals, kindness...

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Taking care of the family that wasn’t their
Anger every night, stupid arguments 
Lies
Cheating
Hunger
Drugs
Alcohol 
Scared to show love within
Mom cares but not enough
Dad loves me but...

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On the first day of Christmas,
my eldest brother Reuben said to me:
“Let us all serve Jesus Christ only”

On the second day of Christmas,
my older sibling...

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Every child’s asleep with dreams of sweets and toys
All save for a little girl and boy. 
Staying up late waiting for Santa Claus,
Hoping to hear...

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I’m not sure what you were at first…
you never went away.
you made all kind of noises
and you laid around all day…

Mom and Dad seemed to...

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Laying my head back, eyes closing,
reminiscing, the years falling away into decades ago
to the 1950s at my grandparent's grand home
for Christmas.

It was a gracious dining...

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Deer Colette,

Thank u four the sweater. Eye did knot no it wood cost that much. It was hire than eye thought. Eye love it! U...

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My significant other,
to our family 
you are a magnificent mother.
You are closer to me
than my sister and my brother.
You're my ray of light 
You're my...

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My father's older brother
Passed away at 95.
That's 40 more years than
His younger sibling was alive.

My father never lived to meet
His grandkids or to know
The joy...

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Eternal Waltz

Beside another recent lain
Dug before the morning rain
Laid in rows midst flowers and grass
Where hand-carved marble speaks of past

Blackbird seeking worm or grain
Eyes the...

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...He turned back to see all four of his gang
staring at him, in anger and shock.
“That boy was worth thousands,”seethed out mad Bret,
his hand shifting...

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In the desert waste Chester Miller looked out,
saw the rest of the gang riding back slow,
fresh from the bank job in Copperstone Creek,
a place that...

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Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Thankfulness

I treasure those heartfelt moments spent at the dining table,
With Dad and Mom and us siblings with our own offspring to rear,
Engaged in an eating...

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I came during the early boom,
sledding close to the spring.
It was surely a sixties theme.
Mom in the kitchen down in the valley
surrounded by red and...

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            A FAMILY

           ...

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This is the continuation of the story written by my brother Bob of our growing up years in the chicken coop.

Because we had no rooms...

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This was written by my brother, Bob Contino. This is a longer more detailed version of my last poem posted, Chicken Coop Chronicle.

When I was...

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...In a fury Malcolm shot to his feet,
shouted ‘Uncle Tom!’ in a moment of heat,
got into his car, a half-dead pinto,
in a cloud of dust...

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...“While I march for justice in our neighborhood,
you were out here running ’round in the woods.
While I protested to bring about change,
you sold out to...

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