Sibling Family Poems

This is a tribute to my Uncle Tom.  He died from Covid 19 last week, even though he was healthy and strong.  He...

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Days filled of games, good thoughts, and silliness
When cookies and recess were the ultimate bliss
For the most part, my childhood was simply just this
Imagination was...

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No two sisters were born more separate,
I inherited traits of my father;
she was the wild fighting spirit of mom.

Fashion taste and even the food...

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The child was getting tired of being teased
Words flowed from her brother's mouth unfiltered
Had he more vocabulary he'd spew. 
She didn't care on that morning...

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What is a mother ?  
It is she who gave birth to you,
She washed your cuts and wiped your nose,
She is the one who...

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Woman – I am touched by womanliness full of emotion
Wife – I once touched by my partner in marriage now I dearly miss
Mother – I...

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I'm rereading Marshall Rosenberg's chapter on Anger,
The big challenge for nonviolent communicators.

Marshall, a StraightWhiteMale psychotherapist,
repeatedly refers to feeling disappointment
escalating into Loser-shamed anger
sometimes further escalating into...

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You're silence reminds me of the voices of the unborn. Loving yet unloved.




Being Normal Is Boring - Broken Aeroplanes, Screwed People, Alternative Writing,:)

Jimmy Boom Semtex
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Biological parents minted circa December 1st, 1957

Amelie Beth Harris
fresh out womb blurted "ahoy"
melded as genetic
deoxynucleic acid alloy
awkward first time parents

natural affection did employ
Boyce and Harriet...

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The Florida of My Youth - My Generation
By Franklin Price
10/13/2019

Was born in mid November of nineteen forty five,
Was the last of seven siblings (only four...

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Well, 62 years ago,
both of my parents were 'lost for words' and were simply amazed--
"That I kept on finding them!"
In the sibling department, there were...

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Seeming to decipher,
The count of the sample,
Whether white, red or dead,
It appears, each is ample,
The blood of our lives,
Not the fluid, arterial,
But the beings, among...

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I am from modest trailer park play 
        	From dandelion picking in the neighbors field of yellow weeds,...

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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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