Difficult Family Poems

She’s afraid of what comes next, afraid that her body will fail her again, afraid that she’ll end up exactly like her parents,  distant,...

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There is immense love for family, 
But sometimes it is difficult to express,
Within you know, how much you feel blessed.
It is tough for you to...

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Every 20 February, I am reminded
Unwanted
Rejected
Unloved

Every 20 February, the dagger twists
Impossible to love
Difficult child
A duty not a joy

Every 20 February, I am reminded
Living mistake
Born a...

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If you want to know why our ancestors are important…
here’s a little rule of thumb…

It’s difficult to know where we’re going…
If we don’t know who...

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Butting heads, locking horns
the difficult child of three
if any one was causing grief
It was always going to be me,
the stubborn chip 
and that stubborn old...

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Traveling through a Dream  in Time it seems in my highs and in my lows. Singing!
Old McDonald had  a farm was Ceasar ...

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2 weeks x 2

future. that’s what I put in notes 
to remind myself how often 
I’ll be able to see her and pretend
I’m easy to...

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Take a picture

Take a picture, of a man, do you see? Hologram is gone
Yeah, keep the photo, keep it, watch the face, it is love
Your...

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When we marry, we enter a covenant, till death do us part,
Each made this covenant, expressed from their heart.
Two people join in a union of...

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My mother and I were close like mother a cat and her kitten
She was the most loving person, I knew those many years ago
My mother...

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Date:  August   2051

"Holannya's  new born baby girls!"
Dolly exclaimed 7  Friday morning.
Molly watched Holly sleep saying,
"Yeah finally and everybody's joyful right?"
Dolly...

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To My Babies
To My Babies 
By: Ashley Marie Gilchrist
May 13, 2016

This poem is for all my babies 

To my babies, I love you all
Very much,...

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An angel of God with the face of a wolf 
The honesty of a man with fear closed in on himself 
They flap their wings...

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What difficult insanity?
Repeating every day.
Laughing, pure absurdity
at life’s prevailing way.

The lack of understanding
buried deep in darker deeds.
Dysfunctional autonomy,
that never will succeed.

Psychotic conversations with
an entity not...

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When our children were young and our family small…say gathered around a birthday cake
with all those smiling faces in one place…our family portrait was easy...

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