Rhyme Family Poems

I'm no good in a kitchen but, I can cook stuff all the same
Around here, say "the recipe" and most folks know my name
It hasn't...

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They closed my mother's casket
to be buried next to Dad today.

The crowd  that came to honor her
began to walk away.

Nothing left but tiny breeze...

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My driveway is packed with the cars
of friends and family,
chips put out, and the little ones
are running joyously.

A cooler filled up with bag ice
keeps cold...

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I miss visits from my children
Who now have families of their own
Photos of kids on the internet
Precious moments now shared by phone

I miss my mom...

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I no longer want to do this
I am breaking a big promise
That was made by a scared kid
I wouldn't do what others did
With the neglect...

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 Why must my son constantly test his mom and me
Can't he see all the trust he loses
In our ability to foresee what his future...

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‘Silence’ is their interim address
Where time like a river yet flows
Terrestrial dust returns once again
To the place whence all life grows,

Resting quietly in Death’s garden...

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You know when you are growing up

The stages you go through

Make you the way you are

They help to make you...YOU

The people who you deal with

Whether...

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Its five in the morning, nervous, I give mom a call,
there is no time to waste, she says, "get on the ball".
In a hospital room,...

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One of a kind angels on Earth would wrap us in their wings
The kind of heavenly love only a mother could bring
Perseveres through the seasons...

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No comforting arms when bad dreams come,
Only confusion inside, What have I done?
Seems like there should have been, a lot more fun.
   ...

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When you are too tired to sit up in bed
to remove that squeaky toy beneath your back
you know you have dogs

When your clothes have more...

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"Brother from Another Mother, but the same Father!"
Russell Coleman jokes with me in Church (His Bride)
This weekend, we honor every mother, dear brother:
You once made...

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Seek, Seeking Peace And That Far Distant Shore

Dawn's flowing music has been very fine
This old soul needs more than sweet talk and wine
When deep boredom...

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My family is my life
Don’t have to say I?t twice 
My love for them is strong 
I? could write a song 
Sing I?t to them...

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My family is my life
Don’t have to say I?t twice 
My love for them is strong 
I? could write a song 
Sing I?t to them...

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Mothers love us near and far
Yes indeed they set the bar so high
They nurse us up strong so we see why
She teaches us that we...

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God bless the struggling mother,
Her fierce love is like no other,
When her babies cry,
She silently sighs.

For she knows,
That is the way it goes,
She will do...

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My childhood was a troublesome time,
My mind built walls too hard to climb.
My memories from that distant past,
My life made me feel like an outcast.
I...

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Twenty years flashes through her memory
'Clock stopped at a quarter 'til four
Broken home, broken heart, broken dishes....
Life in pieces...all over the floor
The only word that...

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