Sibling Family Poems

On the first day of Christmas,
my eldest brother Reuben said to me:
“Let us all serve Jesus Christ only”

On the second day of Christmas,
my older sibling...

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Siblings are tremendously GREAT
Heaven knows I am BLESS
Although this life is just a TEST
God knows I need a rest
So he gave me the BEST
Sisters from...

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My father's older brother
Passed away at 95.
That's 40 more years than
His younger sibling was alive.

My father never lived to meet
His grandkids or to know
The joy...

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It really hurt me when you
said I didn't matter
Threw me on the bed
watched organs spray and splatter

You offered me up to him
on a silver platter
Filled...

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  futures cavort below the horizon
  an expectant dawn glows, duly announcing the first born arrival
  tomorrow then forward smiles, feeling good
...

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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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We began our late winter do-over
with a dirty ceramic bowl
during a too-much snowstorm.

Well, no,
obviously that's not where this rebirth story begins
but neither is a cream-colored...

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To measure how much love one sibling has for another
If one threatens to jump off a bridge, the other runs to tell mother
That pretty well...

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Emotionally distraught appearing almost physically pained
Lashes and cheeks soaked as if it had rained
Again death comes and knocks at my door.
My family so small how...

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My dear Siblings,

I voted for Hillary. 
I would have preferred Bernie, 
but she agreed to much of his platform-especially universal health care and education and...

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Dear Siblings Three,

I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.

This is a variation on a...

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With me, there were word sounds and expressions of grief upon being informed of the passing of a sibling.  Each one's passing ignited a...

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THE PARENTS IN RHYMES: THEIR LIFE, DEATH AND TIMES

BY JULIAN BOWMAN

 
THE PROLOGUE

1

Ten months apart, both parents dead
Their stories swirling in my head;
Memories I cannot...

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Decades have clocked past since we were capped by roof 
As you take your children down the history without and in us
We fondly and times...

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If I love you,
then you are apart of my family.
If I care for you and think of you daily,
you are apart of my life.
It doesn't...

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Dedicated to My Sister, Liz, With All My Love 



There was a time pre-Pooh.  Then, as now, life with Pooh.  
I do not...

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My father passed on nearly ten years before I got married. He was not present for my College graduation, nor was he alive when I...

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I was never a favourite child 
Maybe to my dad only, I thought he understood me better than anyone else 
I was quiet, boring, antisocial,...

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Tragedy in Pennsylvania
      October, 2006

I watched 34 carriages 
and buggies snake toward 
three empty hand-dug graves.
		
"Our lives are shattered," is...

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You are our parents' only son,
three sisters grew
and gave you guff;
you stood alone on constant guard,
in teasing vein and comic mien.

I am the sibling next...

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