Short Familial Poems

A spider plant* with many offshoots --
The mother firmly holds onto her little girl's hand at the nursery.


*Chlorophytum comosum...

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Our missionary friends just adopted a little girl from the Ukraine:

the princess waltzes
out orphanage gates
— familial dance

9/10/2018...

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Why does blood
Pull you apart? 
Instead of filling you up? 
        - one vein is comprised of multiple layers...

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At some mutual point
during the lengthy course of their familial lives, 
Sonny and his older brother
must have gazed upon themselves as equals in each other’s eyes....

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It's a New Year
  May we fill it with
    New months
     New weeks
      New days
       New hours
        New minutes
  May we renew our familial
  and friendship connections...

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Dullness settles sharply, without warning;
The words are gone, as if they'd never been.
There is but acquiescent pain at the loss.
It is left now to wait
For the familial shadows to pass....

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matriarchy
generational
each branched out
adept heads of nests familial
strength of wills and influence
family tree in motion
evolutional



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on February 24, 2020...

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Pale daughters
don't follow their familial duties
or wash behind their ears
laved in white light,
they sport a smile, when necessary,
compelled by an accidental mischief
pencilled in exclusion,
rendered in the shade
we wouldn't go dancing on the almost air....

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Lulled by the lazy lagoon
Memories carved at the beach
Fated familial platoon
Lulled by the lazy lagoon
     Gator snatched the toddler of June
     Dad could not transcend the breach
Lulled by the lazy lagoon
Memories carved at the beach/center>...

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utter the past
chase the line of least discourse
hark a time in the distance
don't blame the numbers in the sand
lichen will cover the scornful
a distant cove as cover
the place before the vetch
I did not choose it
A gift utterly unloved
by a familial sky




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Pale daughters dont give their heart
Conceived in the garden of Eden
The brambles alternate now

To give your heart
is a irritant Sin
Low things elude fences
The Moon is a big enough bust

Tired of giving
Following familial line
Keep buttressed
Our spirits struts outside wedlock...

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A lust redrawn, a passion
under wraps, recasts the theme
and sings a different tune.

A travesty of love most people say,
an instance of familial abuse,
it's not the usual way.

Stigma or no stigma?
they battle with a feeling others cannot share,
they care, just in a different manner....

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A lust redrawn, a passion
under wraps, recasts the theme
and sings a different tune.

A travesty of love most people say,
an instance of familial abuse,
it's not the usual way.

They struggle with the stigma,
they battle with a feeling others cannot share,
they care, just in a different manner....

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A lust redrawn, a passion
under wraps, recasts the theme
and sings a different tune.

A travesty of love most people say,
an instance of familial abuse,
it's not the usual way.

They struggle with the stigma,
they battle with a feeling others cannot share,
they care, just in a different manner....

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A lust redrawn, a passion
under wraps, recasts the theme
and sings a different tune.

A travesty of love most people say,
an instance of familial abuse,
it's not the usual way.

They struggle with the stigma,
they battle with a feeling others cannot share,
they care, just in a different manner....

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Tempers trashing,
ideas clashing,
families fuming,
kinship cooling.

Camaraderie collapsing,
communication lapsing,
schisms scission,
harmony ebbs away,


Fuddy-duddy , so unreal
is the petulant cry;
ungrateful child,the sighing reply,
then stances coagulate and congeal.

Familiar familial !...

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Pale daughters
don't stoke the familial fireside
they wait patiently for the darkness
toting their time

They are not the ones
to hang around freckles smiles
instead they tell quaint jokes

Children call them defilment
their painted smiles tell a different story
lying in bed with their spectacles on....

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Dad's youngest brother
is younger
than my brother:
Dad being the eldest
in his family,
my brother being
the eldest in mine.

Mother's sister
wed Dad's cousin.
Their offspring and I
are double cousins.

I crossed county lines
to choose a mate
totally unrelated.
 
Dream on.
Somewhere back there,
the name Pratt dangles
from both family trees....

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katana ~
swordsmithing
honoring ancestry
expertise passed down
generation to generation
proud reverence to familial traditions



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on June 13, 2021 for contest ALL YOURS (JUN 14) sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

and May 25, 2019 for PICK A TITLE, VOL 5 - VERSE POETRY CONTEST (#1 FORGED BY FIRE) sponsored by EDWARD IBEH...

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I sit at my family’s empty table
Life’s feast is almost gravely gone
I am the final guest left in this familial fable
All within my bloodline have somehow succumbed
I recall the time of the sweet, sour, bitter and salty with zeal
Each gathering shared with love for each other at every meal


November 13, 2022
Bitesize Poem Number 55
Sponsored by:  Line Gauthier...

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Time place
scope and space
recover planning with
hazmat desires
actions by dissent 
proportions to unoutcomes
serial deliverance by
traveling non neural pathways
around psycho resilience via 
domestico-dysfunshun 
huma huma incestations fielding
familial inbred infestations
leading to blind intonations thereby
catapulting negative Ego equations.
Can we abide by selfless endeavors?...

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He may have joined the marines...
because of a sense of patriotism and duty
running deep in the fabric of familial DNA...
or maybe it was the only means of escape
from generational poverty -drugs and gangs 
...none but the newely purple hearted can really say.

but when i look at the awkward air
where there once was a limb
i can say for certain that he earned his freedom
more than most of us did....

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The teacher and I sat with the parent, and listened to her excuse story for her boy, Matt.

The son does not do what Mrs. Howlett, the teacher wants, because he is so smart, he is bored, and fat.

His weight makes him do things he shouldn’t do, and his brain is ingenious, that’s a familial fact.

We made eye contact, both recognizing her excuses, and lies, better understanding why the son acts the way he acts....

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Loud discussions never categorized as arguments
Spoken at a register unheard of on most days
Come to fruition here
All that is said falling between a purple unicorn and a 4.2 on the Richter scale
Either niceties to the point of unbelievability
Or disaster to the point of collapsibility
Exchanging highly charged words packaged inside cheerful familial wrappings
The unspoken tradition lives on

Merry Christmas...

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genes swapped
stirred by unbounded love
family is born

bound by filial bonds
maternal and paternal
relations emerge

love, caring, support
joy and sorrow shared alike
life's music composed

echoing through ages
increasing genetic pool
Malthus' theory

you, me, and Genghis
bound by familial ties
family tree thrives

culture, colors, race
babble, blather, and blubber
siblings world-over


~ 04 May 2016 ~...

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