Family Values Poems

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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As I entered the forest 
My feet gained an uncanny rhythm
Crunching below the surface of a hundred years
The snow intermittently tracing the way

It was a...

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Dear Siblings Three,

At least three of us four
have survived this first round
of sharing our seeing Reds 
and our feeling Blues.

At this point
I imagine our eldest...

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I've noticed
since early years on the family farm
with large matriarchally planted and harvested gardens,
that food,
for moms,
is a natural,
and yet also spiritual,
communion relationship.

Nutrition evolves from and...

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TRIBUTE TO AMAZING FAMILY!

Please allow me to honor my certificate - Its longest "Watsapp Post" etiquette...
To praise our Allah for His Kindness, Mercy & such...

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My Perfect Home Zone...

I want the breeze of Jannah to permeate our abodes,
A restful peace within it take hold,
So I ask Allah to fill in...

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OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY  :
There are times in all of our lives 
When we feel as though
no one truly knows us.
In the midst of happiness or...

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FUTURE  PLAN :
The light looks like 
Diamonds glittering in the sea,
A million tiny rays of hope.
From God to you and me.
I am not the...

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He is to provide the emotional, financial, spiritual,
The mental health needs for all,
Provide for the physical health of his family,
Regardless of how big or how...

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Shed blood, protection of innocence, a badge of honor
An oath was made
Defense of liberties and freedoms
Restrictions placed, standards no more
Chaos and anarchy knock at our...

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Now, our last patriarch of the Greatest Generation has been taken
a life's long journey, not to be forsaken.
In truth we know that the Lord will...

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Gingle bell of relative 

I found myself alone but you stand like 
a wall I cry like a Kid of friends of my 
sisters and...

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*This heartfelt poem is dedicated to the family of Robert Godwin Sr.*

His face is the symbol of God, family, togetherness and of love.
For Robert Godwin...

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