Family Life Poems

   By Julia Shaw
     May  2019

Two people met many years ago,
Their hearts would soon embrace,
They wouldn't let each...

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Sometimes I can’t help but think about my past 
There are many things from yesterday that enter my mind 
Thinking back to when I was...

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  images are slow to fade; where did they go? why were they here?
  pensive pen and ink, a gentle man of measure
...

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I have been keeping secrets since I was a small girl
              ...

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Rewind
By Julia Shaw

At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding...

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In early eve,
an errant truck
parks in 
a driveway,
a man in 
its cab,
blows 
cigarette smokes
that drifts
in puffed breaths,
that lingers air
and festers within,
as a family waits
for a...

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Rare as each blossom on a tree,
From Watusi tribe unto the Cherokee,
Each member of man's family,
Has their own unique biography.

Rare the nights of burgundy,
That prelude...

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Snow should be my name in reality, but
this girl was named an old lady name-
everyone says, I have an old soul
and it is true...

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Greetings to each of you my dearly beloved brothers and sisters. Please read these seventeen blessings rendered for you in God's grace:

I. May God’s love...

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Be grateful for what you have: family, friends, the floor under your feet
Don't try to change folks: Be gracious and respectful to people you meet...

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LIFE IS LIFE
THINGS HAPPENS AT A TIME UNEXPECTEDLY
IT WAS'NT SUPPOSE TO BE LIKE THIS
WELL, SINCE IT TURNED OUT THIS WAY
I HAVE THIS TO SAY
AS GOD...

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Mom's joy, Dad’s
baby
boy!
I quickly
discern,
learn,
happily
God's Word
heard
then God's Will
instilled
deep
into my
heart of
hearts—
do the most 
good I
should,
love my wife,
faithful 
life,
with two sons
our lives
blessed,
good friends’ lives 
end too
soon—
gowing old,
tired, 
weak,
as...

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I am easily recognized by my colors of green and brown beautifying the planet.
I am a much beloved and living canopy under the beautiful blue...

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I have discussions in my head
With family, friends not here but dead.
Coworkers or acquaintances
Who said they were but weren't instead.

Not dead and buried, not burned...

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Who am I, I seem to wonder as my thoughts hide in the back of my head, it's like my mind playing it with the...

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With the family visiting again this holiday..as they have so many times before
It was once again time to revisit…the back of our old closet door.

On...

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and for our fifth anniversary, wood;
at that age love’s roots are hopeful, flexible,
damp: feeling fresh earth with fingers 
stretching and toes padding. A landscape found.

My...

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I bear the scars of axes
forgotten loves
lost rings consumed
in fiery conflagration
rooted in the past
leafless in the present
reaching into the future.
Wars have torn me
taken my offspring
clouded...

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The truth is stranger than fiction.
As they say,
you can’t make this stuff up.
It was the middle of summer,
And I was looking for a way to...

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In our family circus
children old enough to be left alone
without a babysitter.
Can find lots of interesting ways
to have fun.
And this makes for a happy house...

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