Hate Parents Poems

You apologize over and over,
Yet do it again cold shoulder.
In church every Sunday saying you’re a “righteous” man, 
But at home you’re the devil’s right...

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Peter had to fly,
was that just last night?
I have attachment issues.
I hate saying goodbye
- it always makes me cry
an embarrassing tear or two.

Holidays go so...

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What is causing the very latest generational great divides in America?
The division is between the older generations: the Silent Generation,
the Baby Boomers and Generation X....

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Last weekend was “Parent’s” weekend at Yale. A time when parents are formally invited to visit. They have receptions and other events - but no...

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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...

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Caught in the middle of the adult fight.
Leverage is gained or taken depending upon if I look left or right.
The shouting and screaming becomes numb...

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If you think I'm distant
if you think I'm bad
if you think I'm cold
if you think I'm sad
if you think I don't care
if you think I'm...

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Brothers, Sister, siblings, parents,
It makes me question what they decide, 
the thought about having nothing yet full of pride,
Then having everything taken, a loss that's...

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The love of a mother fills your heart with nothing but joy
The love of a mother makes you fearless,brave and humble 
This love is what...

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Unwritten actions, seen by eyes , heard 
   by ears but missed ink to write down. " 
                        Quote by poet. 
             

My pen writes...

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Bedbound, your mind
still poked through the morphine haze
to register a world
which had shrunk 
to a hospice room
with Dad dying with you
in a bed a few...

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Here is your new stepfather.
Lucky you!
We are in love.
He will love you like he loves me!
The child is two, he does not quite understand.

Here are...

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The Television

The beast, 
eats your heart out slowly, 
takes your soul away painlessly, 
and barely if at all
it is ever noticed by any. 

It growls...

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“Nothing ever changes
In the city of stone”
The city of mountains
The city of bones
The city of deaths which nobody mourns
Saluda is the city in which we...

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Down, down, down in the burial ground, goes horrible Cosmos;
everything he did was so awful: feel sympathy for his victims!

Way down into the cold darkness...

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