Family Sestina Poems
These Family Sestina poems are examples of Sestina poems about Family. These are the best examples of Sestina Family poems written by international poets.
A Bond That Will Forever EndureOn this day of love and joy,
Two hearts become one, oh boy!
A union of two souls so pure,
A bond that will forever endure.
The groom awaits...
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Categories:
marriage, wedding,
A Fetus Is a PersonA fetus is a person, a life yet to be born,
A precious soul waiting for its turn,
To enter this world and take its place,
In the...
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Categories:
abortion, children,
When They Exhume My PoemsWhen I die
I give the Pulitzer Board
Permission
To exhume my lyrics
And some overweight ME
Will put my verses on a slab
Going thru my stanzas for tone
looking...
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Categories:
sestina, assonance, death, eulogy, i
Fox HuntingFox Hunting
She turns tail to snake through the dust,
parting orderly heads of corn,
breathing heat and eating dark
On her way to escape—she hopes—
from the fox chasing...
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Categories:
angst, animal, beauty, longing,
Six Brothers In HarmonyEvery one of my five brothers
and I strive to create harmony.
Our lives are lived in parallel
yet at times we work alone.
Other times we play well...
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Categories:
brother, music, together,
We're Just BrownGrandma’s brown knuckles crinkled
As she gently peeled the heirloom
Potatoes, discarding the brown-
Skinned strips into the garbage
Bin. She was at home here, alive
And...
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Categories:
grandmother,
The Mystery Of LoveThe Mystery Of Love
I haven't wrote a poem
since the day he left
My words don't sound the same anymore ,
but still I write,
there's no reason...
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Categories:
i love you, lost
Sestina for a Forgotten Cousin MidgetSestina for a Forgotten Cousin Midget
Kids are midgets
Like gnats, infested around the water
Melons buried in ice
Moms mixing up grape and lime Kool-Aid
Smoke smolders from reddened...
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Categories:
family,
In Support of a Kenyan Teacher
In this land we had a President teacher
So was our nice neighbour next door
A fertile ground to hold holy such a duty
An easy guess :...
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Categories:
africa, career, change, class,
Unsung - A Sestina
My brother, Lincoln Beachey, made my life a wonder,
Mother's eyes were full of him and loved how he was bold
I was the shadow elder son...
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Categories:
brother, celebrity, courage, dream,
WindowThe father has left the family,
To chart new territories somewhere
So the mother looks to God for strength
To bring up her little girl...
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Categories:
family,
A Boatful of HopeDay has sunk and the old fisherman, like a well-trained athlete, rows his rugged boat.
Defying starry night's turbulent waves,
It cruises seaward, smooth and swift, like...
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Categories:
boat, daughter, family, father,
The Little Prince of Our HouseOur excitement to have you in our life
That you deserve a regal retreat inside our house
This once dark room spruced up with chic bedroom
With soaring...
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Categories:
child, family, home, inspirational,
SestinaQuite often it seems we tell kids, it’s best to be first
They sign up for fun; parents, it seems, for the fame
Whether it’s academics or...
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Categories:
childhood, family, children, introspection,
My Mother Jean, A MaverickAlberta “Jean,” the different one was she
since her birth and among her family.
This redhead born of parents with dark hair
had felt herself an odd plain...
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Categories:
faith, home, mother, red,