Family Life Poems

Every day I ask myself:
– What is real happiness?
A voice whispers from above:
– Have a good drink and make love!

The second day, but the same...

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Being a man, is already a great sacrifice on its own
For it takes more mind and will than heart
That's why we considered heartless
I guess that's...

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Thanksgiving we tell everyone
Thank you for all you have done
Or be grateful for the wealth
We have in our life and health
So I'm thanking all my...

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when my winnings hit the news, relatives climbed into my windows.
great aunts and uncles, sixth cousins, uncles twice removed.
some families stormed over to demand their...

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The possessions I pray upon/
Are not meant for me to grasp/
Toughs of becoming a man/
Is unreachable like the stars/

Joy I once had turned into fear/
Prayers,...

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I was an adequate student in elementary school…I learned my basic math…
never realizing how addition, subtraction, multiplication and division would help me on life’s path.

I...

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How far does this viewpoint extend meaning,
    Or does it cease at genetics' bloodlines?
Yet some may adopt social bondings,
   ...

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Do you hear what was done
Those years ago under the Australian sun
We came to what we were told
Was an empty land for the bold

Some had...

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Cultivation of distressful life was starting in our family after the cyclone
No shelter we found except a crushed hamlet on far dale with full alone
On...

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Brigid’s family has lost their house
she is six and does not understand
it is right there, where it always was
how could they have lost it?

they do...

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"It has been said that time heals, I do not agree with this,
emotional pain create scars, sad and sometimes beautiful;
invisible scars and we cope, but...

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Early chapters are written without choice.
Scripted by parents from birth.
These chapters may read prosperous or despair. 
Innocence surrounded by ignorance life is not fair,
One may...

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Whispering voices, caverns of lies reside in my head, the depth of  casualties that surrounds me. Is there really somewhere safe to be? What's...

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During the Second World War, people were panicking everywhere in the world.  And of all continents, Asia was one of the most devastated in...

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first day
writing new letters
in the same old journal

a hymn
the only accompaniment 
rain drumming the roof

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just in time
it stops raining
first cherry blossoms 

spring wind
ten thousand frog...

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