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Brick WallBrick Wall
Have you ever talked to a brick wall?
Someone’s always headed for the fall.
They never listen to advice.
They argue with the old all the time.
They're always in denial standing in quicksand.
Never open minded but sad.
Always...
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Categories:
parents,
Form: Rhyme
A Log Cabin of Long Ago
In a log cabin out in the Wild West
Many tumultuous years ago
A family cuddled and found sweet rest
By their potbellied wood-burning stove
A tall candle burned bright in the window
The harsh, cold wind beat upon the...
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Categories:
family, home, hope, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Bloody gifts of resurrectionIn midnight gazes call me sullen upon my cheek
Rousing replies risen bound by chains
Lest mercy be tallowed by all frays
Lest my cheek rise by an untimely hour
Rid my face of discoloured honour
Until it...
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Categories:
parents, depression, imagery, mental health,
Form: Free verse
No DisneylandDid we let you down?
no Disneyland.
Instilled the outside.
Past experience judging decision.
Expectation eliminating comfortable choices.
Listening to old folk voices.
The highway to heaven or hell.
To Leeds.
Playing out wishful imaginings.
It doesn’t stop.
The road is wide.
Keep...
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Categories:
parents, family, father daughter, father
Form: Prose Poetry
Categories:
parents, absence, father daughter, mother
Form: Rhyme
ParentsLife is not only money that matters
Especially when you are old
Love your parents while they are still alive
Let them feel the care and love
Though we can't choose who our parents
But we can't choose...
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Categories:
care, love, parents, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Gift of What Wasn't
Categories:
baby, depression, loss, parents,
Form: Monoku
The clicker ThiefDoes your TV have a timer?
Will it turn off automatic?
I miss the days of simple viewing and television static.
On switch
Off switch
No subscriptions and way less problematic.
Before never needing a broadband service ,
electric installation or...
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Categories:
parents, 6th grade, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
LIFELINEA father
Once a son.
A son
Will become a father,
Time makes the difference.
A mother
Once a daughter.
A daughter
Will become a mother
Time makes the difference.
Father's ignite
The pathway.
Courage and belief
Their messages.
Fearlessly facing
Adversity until they...
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Categories:
parents, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Pastoral
My parents1. I never had the chance to say goodbye to either of you, and I regret not having the time to grieve properly. I also wish I could have expressed my gratitude for the way...
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Categories:
death, family, parents,
Form: Free verse
Smiling At StrangersSmiling at strangers, or saying hello
passing the time, on my walks down the street
with mixed responses, from those you don’t know
some stare at their phones or else at their feet
Joggers those nodders, take you in...
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Categories:
10th grade, hello, parents,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
children, family, parents, relationship,
Form: Free verse
BABIES IN BASKETSI could write so many words
Created to move, shake, and inspire growth
But I'd rather tell you of babies in baskets
Mothers placing offspring in steel cages
To ensure their continual safety
While piling food, toys, and drinks
On top...
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Categories:
parents,
Form: Free verse
a wolf will never be a petStuff me in dresses all that you want—
the same way you’d put a collar on a wolf, and tighten it like a noose,
then drag it around while it tries to escape: an object for...
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Categories:
anger, animal, metaphor, parents,
Form: Free verse
Donald a McCormick BoyDonald was born in a tough family
It was beyond tough love, it was violent
He learned to put up his dukes before he was two
always getting struck down hard by a brother
He had six of them...
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Categories:
parents,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of Parents Poems
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