Difficult Family Poems

First day of lockdown 
I was enjoying everything 
Had a healthy breakfast after that 
Watched tv ,played on line chess 
Had a good nap to...

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I'm rereading Marshall Rosenberg's chapter on Anger,
The big challenge for nonviolent communicators.

Marshall, a StraightWhiteMale psychotherapist,
repeatedly refers to feeling disappointment
escalating into Loser-shamed anger
sometimes further escalating into...

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I am writing this poem for you today
Can’t believe you have really gone away
You were a beautiful person with a kind soul
It’s so difficult to...

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A rickety old chair sits in a corner of our house…it’s a chair no one can fit in.
Which begs the question why hold onto a...

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For Both, a Second Chance


“So tell me…what’s adopting like? Seems a little risky - picking out your children from the local lost and found! 
Suppose...

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The female calendar

The night cosmos opens the earth to moisture,
germination of the moonlight rejoice.
Tenderizing the ground to reach the underwater sight,
mist of luminous Moon light...

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There is an illiness in the family
My sister has a health problem
She went to see the doctor
He sent her for some tests

The doctor said it...

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Mother and Me,

28 years ago you gave me life,
During this time i have brought you some strife,
But as the years past we both grew,
And its...

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The older we get the more our family spreads out…that’s the way it’s supposed to be
for that is the nature of family…its intention…its destiny.

Time and...

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Meanwhile Doctor Kaunda reminded young
people in the country ascending the rung
of success they have a big role to play
with trappings of pride slung

in weaving together...

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I can’t deny my feelings for you they are too deep
You are the first thought when I wake and last thought before I sleep
I know...

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Like father, like son, amazing how that happens
Seems inherent in families, an obligatory passion
Unavoidable joy
Since mine was a boy
A bond so tight,  difficult to...

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Love for First sight :
Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.” 
Because you were my...

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Twelve days of sleep deprivation has thrown
Aunt Zee into full blown manic.
And it did not help that a young
cute female doctor who was trying
to please,...

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Dear Sharon's Family,
    Life is placed on the peg of transformation and dramatic event which can render every living being not only...

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I am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally...

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There have been at least two people in our church  who have committed suicide. A gentleman; a lady; both of whom were more acquaintances...

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She was my father's aunt which made her my great aunt.              ...

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I Have fallen in love with you
I have fallen in love with you
what should I do.
My heart is in race
what should I do.
I have fallen...

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