Son Parents Poems

His father is still away, still dying on his feet for my bread
And I, the mother of a man, must open my arms for the...

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  It's not their fault, you know
   They tried their best to help you grow

  Look in the mirror, pal
 ...

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  Year after year
    all I would ever hear
  "Dad, I'll never get married"
    at 26, the...

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With World War II finally over, the soldier returned home to Tennessee.
To his previous life and his young, loving wife
But what once was two now...

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Around one hundred millennia ago
there was a man from Eritrea.
“I run like gazelle and can throw,
a spear to kill was my idea”.

Feed my family, develop...

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I grew up with Country music
Loved its simple themes
It’s been my constant joy
For ever or so it seems.
Bobby Bare’s on the Bose
Singing a tear jerking...

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Thirty two years ago today
Our family was complete
With the arrival of a baby boy
Overdue, nine pounds, perfect and sweet

The purest love we had ever known
The...

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Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the...

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I
watched
attentively as
each fold was
creased so carefully and precisely,
and then tested with great care to exact the chosen form.
It was made worthy
of long, sustained
flight to compete
with...

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   Parents sent him to school
     to learn the Golden Rule 

   Son entered college
  ...

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Dear 2020!

This Poem was Inspired by an Acknowledgment that this Past Year Was Difficult or Tough, That I Don't have All of the Answers, But...

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Mum:Who have you taken after??
Your father wasn't selfish like you..
Nahil:I have taken after Uncle Supari..
He is selfish as well...
He doesn't give 22 crore rupees Zakat..
He...

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Sunny afternoon
There we sat, a sunny afternoon
The barbie lit, not quite enough flame
Her father fans it, wife tries to explain
Happy families. Two language game
I’ve nothing...

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Chiz was a romance writer who actually made a living.
Her dad was embarrassed by her genre, refused to acknowledge.
Her mother put her down, to please...

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(parents smacking their children became illegal in Wales, UK, on 21 Mar 2022)


They now say they will send me to that hell,
where dark ones do...

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