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Unsheath Your Sword
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Nina Parmenter
| Rhyme |
my children, children, fun, games, my
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Believe
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Anjani Gupta
| I do not know? |
my children, 11th grade, abuse, deep,
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The buttercups have gone
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Mary Braithwaite
| Villanelle |
absence, allusion, my children,
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A Mothers Love
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Donetta Harless
| Rhyme |
my children, children, christian, family, i
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B28-P1- MY TRUE LOVE
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Jerry Wells
| Prose Poetry |
my children, 9th grade, appreciation, i
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Maybe I Never Even Knew
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Laura Loo
| Rhyme |
my children, appreciation, family, life, meaningful,
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Boy, 1978
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James Fraser
| Rhyme |
beauty, class, my children,
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Deadened Frisson Explains
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matthew harris
| Lyric |
my children, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Goodbye because I Love You
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Loreli Perez
| Free verse |
my children, family, father, feelings, mother,
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My Uncle is Dead
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
my children, child, childhood, irony, life,
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My Lilacs
by Jenefer Venezia
I love my lilacs.
A sign of life that blooms
A tear to my eye, oh their fragrance
Cone-shaped petals of lavender and white
They forever grow in...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
my children, flower, life, lost, love,
Weeping Fountain
by Lovie Divine
A fountain amid a floral garden,
Weeping to no end,
Watering each endearing flower,
of the souls who once lived therein.
It was for beauty the...
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Categories:
children, love, my children,
For My Children
by Rhoda Tripp
You’re all in charge of authoring a story
Of love and humor, suspense and glory
You’re writing starts with your very first thought
And doesn’t end til your...
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Categories:
my children, for teens, life, my
Mother of Two Boys
by Nina Parmenter
If someone could just flush the loo,
Or pick their pants up - that would do....
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Epigram |
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Categories:
my children, boy, children, family, fun,
Safely Coccooned
by Caren Krutsinger
He stayed safely cocooned in man-made fort,
Year after year, to protect
His heart from un-carings.
...
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Kimo |
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Categories:
my children, grief, growing up, my
Da Loveliness
by Greg Gaul
Her glance is a light caress
Gentle curves velvet softness
Smiles that charge my innerness
Loved her in that dress
Brought me from the darkness
My blind side she would...
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Monorhyme |
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Categories:
my children, appreciation, best friend, desire,
Ten Men Hiding
by Caren Krutsinger
Children out here, ten men hiding in there.
No coaxing can bring them out
One little diaper change?
...
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Kimo |
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Categories:
my children, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
See You Later Alligator
by Caren Krutsinger
He was six. Brown hair, brown eyes, with a round freckled face that longed.
His mommy had died two days earlier, in a tragic accident on...
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Categories:
my children, angst, boy, care, caregiving,
THE PASSION OF CHRIST
by Peter Atsu Adaletey
THE PASSION OF CHRIST
A Confrontational Poem by Atsu Adaletey
The Passion
Of Christ
Is a Mission
With Thirst
The Passion
Of Christ
Is a Vision
With a firm Decision
The passion of...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
my children, angel, art, dedication, music,
Angel Through the Wires
by Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
"Angel Through the Wires"
Are you an Angel?
Speaking through my words?
You stand by me always,
as I walk roughshod through this world.
I see your reflection in my...
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Categories:
my children, angel, daughter, heaven, jesus,
Gotta Get Out The House
by Nina Parmenter
Gotta get out the house, gotta leave,
My sanity needs some reprieve,
That two little boys,
Could make so much noise -
You’d have to be here to believe!
Before,...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
my children, children, fun, funny, humor,
BABY ARRIVAL AT 01:45 O CLOCK
by Kolawole Owoigbe
At 24:00 O’ Clock of the stars,
When the tides are clapping to
The pressure of her contractions.
Louder is the agony of her painful...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
my children, africa, baby, birth, birthday,
Mother Nature
by Sharon Gulley
Can you hear me?
Can you hear my call?
The call across the nation
through the valleys and to
the redwoods that stand so tall.
Echo's from history sting the...
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Categories:
my children, 7th grade, earth, earth
MILESTONES
by Terry Reeves
I passed my driving test when I was seventeen,
then I could vote at eighteen, didn't know what it would mean;
my first blow-job was a cause...
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my children, brother, celebration, dad, my
Oh dear, what can the matter be inspired by contest
by Anna Hopper
For heavens sake
What is it now
It’s running late
Just take a bow
The show has ended
I’m worn slap out
You both pretended
I ceased to shout
But now I’m tired
Of...
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Categories:
my children, anger, brother, little sister,
Motherhood
by Nina Parmenter
My children bring such beauty to my days,
Yet tiredness casts a shadow on my face -
For rainbow skies are always flecked with greys.
My children bring...
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Triolet |
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Categories:
my children, beautiful, mother, mum, my
No Teeth
by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
What are these
small, toothless skulls?
I asked naively;
What are they? What?
They are the skulls
of babes taken from their cradles
abandoned to die and rot.
"No Teeth" first appeared...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
my children, baby, death, grave, horror,
Losing Everything
by Anthony Nguyen
All I wanted was a final goodbye
Though that you could never grant me
I reached our far and then I cried
A sorrowful ocean or sea
Though that...
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Pantoum |
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Categories:
my children, break up, depression, divorce,
As A Mum
by Kay Roberts
I'll be a Mum to you always, I'll be your best friend,
I'll stand by your side, on me you can depend.
I'll cherish each moment...
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Categories:
my children, best friend, children, family,
Love Is
by Derriziel Pierce
Love is wanted,
Love is needed,
Love has even been synthesized,
Your neural pathways can be harmonized, synchronized, and then verbalized.
When frequencies and sound waves organize,...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
my children, appreciation, beautiful, community, my