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The Rod and Reproof Gives Wisdom
Such a violent world we live in
Hard to know just what to do
For example both my mom and dad
Have slapped and spanked me too
But nowadays some choose a path
That may seem rather odd
To discipline with...
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Categories:
abuse, children, hurt, parents,
Form: Rhyme
I'm sorryI'm sorry mom and dad
I know I messed up bad
I should've done better
Now here's my letter
I'm sorry for all the times
I let you both down
I'm sorry for all the times I lied
I'm sorry for...
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Categories:
parents,
Form: Free verse
OvercomingIndignities flung and pelt like a slap.
in fragments of thought that land in the lap..
Silencing priests and some of the nuns,
who live out their lives sequested.
Curbing the tongues of angry moms
who voice disapproval untested.
Creating a...
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Categories:
emotions, parents,
Form: Rhyme
No Reason To SearchI care I search for answers in my head
To find the truth before I am dead
Was I first born 'fore my parents had wed
Or was I adopted like my lone sister said...
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Categories:
mystery, parents,
Form: Rhyme
First BiteAn English au pair with a love for fruit
Worked for a family with loads of loot
When she bit into a pear
Their son bit into au pair
She slapped him, his parents gave her the boot...
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Categories:
parents, family, fruit, goodbye, kid,
Form: Limerick
You Look Nice
“Don’t you look nice!”, the waitress said
she left to get our ordered bread
as his black coffee cooled
he said, “You’ve got her fooled,”
and I went home and hid my head...
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Categories:
parents, father daughter, fun, funny,
Form: Limerick
UntitledI was closer to my father
or so I thought.
But I now
miss my mother more,
and the only explanation I have
is he was more knowable
and she more vast.
(12/21/21, first published in my sixth book OUT OF TIME...
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Categories:
allegory, memory, parents, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Letter To My Children
In this boat that we dwell,
It can be a walk through hell,
Yesterday haunting today,
Today pervaded by sombre rays,
Tomorrow being spun by the unseen.
The world is a rocking boat,
Sometimes the...
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Categories:
children, inspirational, parents,
Form: Rhyme
A Parents JobStop this, stop that,
Be good, it's freezing wear your hat.
Put your gloves on it's very cold,
Please, please do as you are told.
I am trying my very best,
But every day seems like one big test.
But then...
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Categories:
parents, child, childhood, love, my
Form: Rhyme
Parental Advice
Dear child,
Life lessons that matter most I tell you
as parental advice, and these are a few.
Be careful what to someone you say,
for with it bridges you create or decay.
Think of failure not as...
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Categories:
children, life, parents,
Form: Couplet
Jasper and His Wife Created BubbaStarla and Jasper have been living together for seven years
They never got married, she did not like him that much
He is running out of money, and his family is horrible
In particular his son, Bubba, who...
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Categories:
parents,
Form: Narrative
THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLETHE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IT WAS AN HONOUR TO SPEND TIME WITH MY GRANDPARNETS, TO LISTEN TO THE MANY STORIES THAT THEY HAD TO TELL ALWAYS WITH AWE AND AMAZEMENT.
BUT AS I...
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Categories:
parents, age, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Six Outsmarts Methe child is six, and sharp
I knew this when he said “that looks like a DNA tester.”
What is a DNA tester? I asked.
“You know. You test blood, saliva and urine with it.”
I was impressed.
I had...
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Categories:
parents, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Just Wait. for public domain
You won't see me
chasing you down Love Street
with my eyes full of tears.
You won't see me
drunk at bars down the street
crying my eyes out for you.
You' won't see me
flirtin' fine girls I...
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Categories:
heartbroken, love, parents,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten momentsMemories can become blurry, over time,
like underdeveloped photographs,
or incomplete, like sunlight through blinds.
Our lives move ever forward,
like the inflexible patterns of stars.
Once fevered and immediate events
recede, with frightening, doppler effect,
as remembered yesterdays,
become forgotten yesterdays.
New Haven...
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Categories:
parents, student,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Parents Poems
Read wonderful parents poetry on the following sub-topics:
abusive, anniversary, bereaved, beautiful, child, daughter, death, divorce, divorced, heaven, losing, love, missing you, reunited, son, thank you, wedding,
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