Values Family Poems

I was not ready to lose you.
But you were taken from me, anyway.

Suddenly.

On a sunny day that started so normally.
Without any sign of the emotional...

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My eyes flutter to open in the early morning light, 
My mind in a haze, thoughts invade, self recriminations pervade,
Question my self worth, as a...

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Your wise eyes glistened with cataracts, showing me the hazy Indian sky
The wrinkles on your face, the lines by your eyes, showed me the joys...

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FAMILY VALUES

Foes have arisen in our day and age
And they have taken their act to the stage
Making their laws in the nation’s courtrooms;
It’s families they’re...

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mask to mask
hidden from view
our deepest thoughts
personal feelings

mask to mask
we interact
longing to be seen
fearing potentials

mask to mask
are we hiding
are we selective
are we insincere

mask to mask
our...

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Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.

That disclaimer...

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There once was a time when women could cook,
  and men knew how to dance

Education was by the book,
  no fuzzy math or...

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In this world of fake things
Where nothing is real

Nothing is authentic
And the market rules us all

There is no room 
For real friendship

We are all using...

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Diaspora Dwellings

On my way into our sanctuary
this past Sunday morning
a woman I had met in choir
was strangely inclined
to share her family history.

Her dad came over...

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Many people know how important you were to me.
If you hadn't died, today you would've turned seventy.
You were a kind woman who loved to give.
I...

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Family is the original cell of Social life
Family is a community from childhood
One can learn moral values
Begin to honor Eternal God
Make good use of freedom
Family...

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C-hurch Of Christ members
F-orm family groups or guild
O-pen to values.

Topic: Family (Christian Family Organizations) 
Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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When is a practice 
of separating unprivileged families
not a policy?

When a healthy democratic bicameral nation
never would
nor should
nor could
approve any such policy

Clearly
transparently the opposite of
health and...

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Senior citizens 
Crated in old people’s homes
Discarded denizens
Wrinkled forms

Pivotal during heyday
Generating national growth
Beyond payday
Bestowing cloth

On backs of offspring
Pouring sweat day and night
Zip in their gait...

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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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I can remember hunting with my Dad
From the time I was a young lad
It never makes me sad
Everything about my Dad
Was very rad I'm just...

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You asked me to write about 
Family
You unleashed the love I always carry in me
My own flesh and blood
My endearment within but an ocean not a...

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Such special jewels we are blessed to have
To bear, to love and to hold, into the future…
Carrying our legacy beyond our given years 
Still, our...

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I have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization 
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower, not too much...

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