Family Rhyme Poems

Today I’m grateful for something my parents taught me long ago.…
grateful it was taught to me…grateful I still know:

That wherever I end up in life…
no...

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I know I say this every time we visit our cabin in NC…
how wonderful it is to visit a place with so much family history.

And...

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BROTHERS 

I wasn’t even two years old
But I knew a baby’s sound
So I climbed up on my old crib
And was amazed by who I found
At...

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Everything has an END
The time I spEND
And sentiments I intEND
With my family and friENDS
But not with Jesus

Everything has an END
The breath I expEND
Trying to drive...

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Vincent Van Gogh, an artist who through his art and life pulled on our heartstrings,
said the best way to know God…is…to love many things…

I like...

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Written on May 31, 2025
By Gail DeBole

We were just two people who met
and live vows with utmost respect.

The world would keep going
If our lives didn’t...

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George Wendt to Heaven when he died.
He was talented and that can't be denied.
George Wendt to a bar where everybody knew his name.
Now that he's...

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If only you could see
the forest for the trees
it would feel so good
for then as an evergreen
you'd be out of the woods
and if you cared...

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Little Miss Mary was thirteen years old, and lived in gold, olden days;
Like the longed for future, peeking at past, both of them full of...

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They inhale the poisonous substance,
adduction had no power over resistance;
their brain's responsiveness is too slow:
look at them: their glance is so mellow!

This is the offspring...

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I love you both with all my heart,
But Mum, you tore that love apart.
You made me choose, you made me cry,
While Dad was left to...

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Today I’m grateful for the deep roots and long branches
of my family tree…
for all the ancestors I’ve never know…
who are a part of me.

...

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A neighbor of ours died recently…unloved, old and all alone.
She was found, by a person walking his dog, in the doorway of her home.

She was...

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Nothing is heard, but the gentle breeze
Breeze that whispers over the deceased 
Trees bow their branches with deep respect
For those that lie in cemetery beds.

The...

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Like seed that overcomes the weeds,
I too want to produce and succeed.

I am weak.
But I am also strong.
I often reach my peak;
But sometimes, things go...

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