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Sibling Family Poems

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

Uncle Aaron's Passing by ilene bauer

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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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death, family,

Organ Grinder by Brianna Hobson

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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Details | Free verse |

Categories: family, abuse, body, gothic, horror,

Love Off-Sprung by Ian Love

  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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Details | Verse |

Categories: children, family, love, tribute,

No Doctor I Do Not Need Sleep by Caren Krutsinger

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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Details | Free verse |

Categories: family, abuse, addiction, bullying, child

April Love by Gerald Dillenbeck

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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Details | Political Verse |

Categories: april, caregiving, family, health,

Siblings by Jack Ellison



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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Details | Limerick |

Categories: family,

Another Unwelcomed Visit by Rose Henderson

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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Details | Prose |

Categories: brother, cancer, family, heartbroken,

Red and TrueBlue Family--2 by Gerald Dillenbeck

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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Details | Prose Poetry |

Categories: family, america, caregiving, health, humanity,

Red and Blue Estrangered Families by Gerald Dillenbeck

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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Details | Political Verse |

Categories: earth, faith, family, health,

Recorded Emotions by curtis johnson

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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Details | Free verse |

Categories: family, anxiety, bereavement, brother, death,

The Parents in Rhymes: Their Life, Death and Times by Julian Bowman

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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Details | Epic |

Categories: abuse, bereavement, family, father,

THESE FOUR WALLS by Grace Mutindi

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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Details | Personification |

Categories: family, imagination,

If I Love You You Are My Family by Lexy Goodluck

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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Details | Free verse |

Categories: emotions, family, love,

My Younger Sibling and Baby Love by CayCay Jennings

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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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: baby, birth, family, little

Family Encounters by curtis johnson


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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Details | Prose |

Categories: family, bereavement, blessing, celebration, childhood,

oh Sister by njeri hunjeri

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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Details | Name |

Categories: family, sister,

Amish Schoolhouse Murders by Cona Adams

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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Details | Free verse |

Categories: faith, family, farm, forgiveness,

Mischief Maker by Cona Adams

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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Details | Light Verse |

Categories: brother, family, fun, humor,

A SKY HOME AND A MOON WIFE by Muhammad Safa Thajudeen

In the summit of high land,

A Sky home,

Sun and Moon living together like husband and wife,

From the day one,

Very understanding,

Not in closeness but very attached,

She...

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Details | Light Verse |

Categories: beautiful, caregiving, family, love,

CAUGHT IN BETWEEN by nette onclaud


Conflicting are familial ties that bind
As my activist brother once declared
This summon for probing, he declined
In a crucial time when revolts had snared
Our birthmark of...

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Details | Quintain (English) |

Categories: care, conflict, family,