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Mother Family Poems

These Mother Family poems are examples of Family poems about Mother. These are the best examples of Family Mother poems written by international poets.


India and Pakistan: Divided by History, Bound by Blood
Brothers once, beneath the same monsoon sky,
Before foreign flags touched your soil,
You drank from the same rivers,
Laughed beneath the same banyan trees,
Shared gods, grain, and...

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Categories: allusion, conflict, discrimination, family,



Misplaced
In my few quiet moments, I always say grace, 
a mother first, trying to find my place, 
my eyes are tired, every single day, 
I’m...

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Categories: family, my children, silence,

To Mama
This is for the sleepless nights you spent
thinking 'bout life's ups and downs and in betweens
For the efforts you continuously exert, though unseen
For the hungry...

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Categories: family, growth, mother, mother

Premium Member Things Lost Somewhere in This House
Things Missing Somewhere in This House
My birth bertificate…
A box of needed, new bank checks…
Both of our wedding rings…
My Waterman fountain pen…
After 4 decades, at least...

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Categories: family, heart, jesus, loss,

Premium Member June 27th, 1969
A Friday,
a plane crash,
a phone call,
all it took
for your whole world to shatter.

You never got to tell them
how you’d follow in his footsteps
in his wing...

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Categories: family, death, flying,



Premium Member Loretta
She might have painted the sea—
or a golden field of wheat
beneath a hazy summer sky—
but he took her brushes,
left the bristles splayed,
the paints dried out,
and...

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Categories: art, devotion, family, father,

Useless
I 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,

Bones Remain Alive
Loitering around at the expense
of my parents back, 
I too wish to be at the resemblance 
of hardworking thumbs, 
those same fingers that sewed 
the...

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Categories: death, family, farm, growing

Toddler Hulk
I’m thinking of a person 
Who is strong and resilient. 
Big in personality but size is small. 
When mad, they turn a green pigment. 
All...

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Categories: family, brother, child, childhood, children,

Premium Member Accentuate And Celebrate

As we approach the celebration
of our country's founding, one
could view the glass as half empty
Or half full.  Or one could complain
about how far we...

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Categories: appreciation, family,

Premium Member Thyroid Storms
She started crying in the middle of rages—
not the soft kind, but sharp,
like she’d cut herself on something
I couldn’t see.
She slammed drawers.
Shouted at a spoon.
Broke...

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Categories: childhood, confusion, family, mental

Premium Member Blood Is Thicker Than Water
Water describes a stranger while blood describes a family member
This statement has been around for as long as i can remember
When it comes to different...

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Categories: family,

Drawing
she was too innocent to understand anything
too small to differ between love and pain
so she learned to express what she felt

she would lock herself in...

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Categories: family,

Premium Member Legerdemain
The magician wore 
my mother’s perfume
and conjured family 
from thin air—
a brother renamed uncle,
a wife recast as mother,
a daughter vanishing 
behind a tale of bees.

Each...

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Categories: confusion, family, growing up,

My first born
My firstborn son, my heart’s new dawn,
Your tiny cry, the light that shone
In that first breath, I learned to be
The mom I’d always longed to...

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Categories: baby, birth, family, i


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