Sister Narrative Poems

My dear sweet friends of the Soup

Thought I'd let you in on a little secret

It's all about life and love and happy stuff

But mostly it's...

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III-Jana

Four months following Marie’s conviction,
Jana walked calmly into the prison,
there to see her former sister-in-law,
doing twenty years for sale and possession.

She had a purpose she...

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II-Marie

It was two full days after this charade
when Marie was told the grim news,
her ex-husband had been shanked in prison,
killed by two illegal alien youths.

When...

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I need a daddy like that one.
I want that mommy, she will show me how to organize.
That sister would be terrific!
Sorry, they only have room...

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SUN SAT DOWN, NITE ROLLED IN,
BRINGING ALONG HIS WHISPERING WINDS.
FROST ARRIVED WITH COLD AND CHILL.
THEY WERE ALL EXCITED, EXPECTING A THRILL.
MOON WAS LIT, BUT STILL...

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sometimes we act like we
gotta ask for nothing
our way of trying to get something
beg a little to get what we got
and act satisfied cause it...

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I rested my weight on the dated metal green and white glider. I moved back and forth listening to the cracking sound that the glider...

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Where’s my sister gone?
The holiday season all wrapped up
A tarnished blanket of snow remains
Flipping the page into the New Year
Filling our thoughts with hope and...

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ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Memorial of Candy

My memories of knowing him
So many years ago
As the father of my two oldest children
I’ll remember the thoughts that glow

Though a lot of...

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II.
They had a small ranch wedding,
a few friends saw him kiss his wife,
then settled into the daily routines
of a comfortable, working-ranch life.

Sepidah stopped with the...

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Specific word : Maasi, A word used to prounce to mother's sister.

My Mamma was of five.,
And her younger sister was three years old.,
When her mother...

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Veiled from the world the Queen did keep
A 'bastard' girl who cost her sleep
Though tethered down and kept from sight
Still she shone forth as purest...

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never had a brother
never had a sister
born to great parents
loved my grandparents
have a great life
a great wife
why do I feel left out
can’t miss what you...

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we walked  three miles in the country  
in the dark 
down the lonely roads 
and past the deep swamp
too far away from home...

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SHEEP LIKE COVERING 

My emotions are running wild all over the place
Oh you are a disgrace
You call your self a holy man
and all your friends...

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Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued)

Matto, Lisa and their parents 
Contemplated now a journey 
On the ocean that was longer 
Far than...

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I wandered lost on this road we call life . . .

It all started when I was a small girl,
watching in slow motion the accidental...

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Father you were my first love
a collection of feelings fused into a human being meant to love me.
Father you taught me how to love
nights filled...

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