Mother Family Poems

If good gods got a great heart
Why do innocent kids get hurt
If we are to live life with lots of laughter
Why do orphans get families...

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It all began as if it were a game,
he teased her daily, then she did the same.
More and more hurtful the jokes became,
to see who...

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You can never go back 
That's what they say 
But, you never listen 
And you go anyway 

When I pulled into town 
It was almost the same 
Everything looks smaller 
But, its you...

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A boy serves his parents
  He thinks they are God
'Till, coming of age
  He sees them as odd...

The boy, his home leaves
 ...

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So blessed am I, to still
receive your phone call of
wishes, your sing along rendition
of "happy birthday Elsa", as it
lights the candles the heart 
will eternally...

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Soon you will be 18 
I can imagine the next game play you will try on me on
You try so hard the same game play...

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Unconditional:
Whoever said a mother’s love for her child,
Is unconditional,
Never met my mother.
They never had the experience
of
The white hot tip of her sword-like tongue,
Cutting out my...

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Across my bed
I drape
a vintage
handmade quilt
sewn with precision
and loving care
it keeps me warm
it keeps me safe
as if
still in the arms
of my grand-mother
as if
she were still...

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I am named after my grandmother.
Christened Sarah Jane, she was known as Jeanie.
That is often the way where I come from,
that deviation from the written...

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I see in my granddaughter's eyes
The joy of childhood
Her innocence 
Her wonder
The laughter
The love of all she has found

I hope she sees in my eyes
My...

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On this day of all days
My car decided to die
It wouldn't start
It wouldn't even try
Turned the key
A click
Kicked the tire
A hiss
Walked away
With a tear in...

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Have you seen Lemmule, the uncle of my daughter's step sister's brother? The cousin of his wife's father's mother who is Auntie to her stepbrother's...

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Remember that I loved you,
When you remember me,
Though at times I must admit,
We did not agree;

But you were always in my heart,
Your welfare my concern,
And...

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It always makes me pain.
My mother’s scissors.
It’s an either-or situation
She cuts my old photos up into small pieces,
Or stir you into the mixture.
Whether or not...

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My words depart as I try 
To explain these happenings
Mistrust has poke its ugly head
And is dragging my family apart
Husband against wife
Mother against daughter
Brother against...

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When I lost my grand-mother
I lost my perfect little nest
My main source of attention

So ironic
Being the eldest
In a family of six

Now the little ones
Were getting...

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Oh mother oh mother oh motherly 
be,
woe would be the world without 
thee,
you fed us when we were
hungry,
you clothed us when we were
cold,
you cooled us...

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The alarm clock sounds beside the bed,
It slowly penetrates into daddy’s head.

He looks at the clock and jumps up with a jerk,
It was the snooze...

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Gumbo

When the cold wind blows in the evenings;
And the black snake can't be found.
When the rain falls on the pine trees;
And there's frost upon the...

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I’m from small town homes and rose bushes overgrown, with
Close-but-not-too-close-close-knit-crazies.
Where my best friend lives down the block and I make late night trips to her...

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