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Birthday Son Poems

These Birthday Son poems are examples of Son poems about Birthday. These are the best examples of Son Birthday poems written by international poets.


The Eternal Quilt


We are but patches in life’s quilt—
Tangled together,
Woven as one.
Pull on a thread,
Watch us unravel.

Ignore my thread, and I disappear.
Ragged, jagged knots.
Rocks in my fists.

Bound
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Categories: blessing, father son, fire,



Arian's First Breath

That morning, I prayed
to flickering exit signs,
to humming fluorescents,
to anything that would listen—
in that sterile room.

Then—
your cry shattered the air,
like dawn cracking open night,
sharp, sudden,
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Categories: birthday, son,

If they shoot, tell my story

If they shoot, tell my story

A boy writes a letter to his mother
She will know nothing of it
Until
Something bad happens
But he knows something will
He knows
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Categories: son, death, discrimination, grief, mother

Sorry part 2

Sorry part 2 
I see you almost everyday. 
I want to put the wrong things right. 
I don’t want you to feel neglected. 
I need
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Categories: son,

Premium Member To my son on his birthday

To My Son, On His Birthday


Today you stand, a year more bold and bright,
A soul so full of wonder, joy, and grace.
Each dawn you chase
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Categories: son, birthday, emotions, love, mother



Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004

Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to
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Categories: son, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny,

Hey Dad!

Hey Dad!

Hey Dad! Is that you knocking at the door outside?
I'm excited to let you know how great was my first horse ride.
Mom was waiting
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Categories: childhood, family, father son,

My Love Teacher - 15 Years

Now he speaks with words so clear,
His aims increase with every year.
He’s growing up with height and grace,
Yet, gives us all the same embrace.
The world
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© Omar Jabak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: son, anniversary, birthday, dad, father

365

Got my last name, 
It’s Privislav until the day that I die. 
Glass full of pain, 
Paint thinner halves the days I have alive. 
Tomorrow
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© R.P. Grcic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: son, addiction, angst, mother, mother

THE START OF ANOTHER SAD WEEK

Some years ago a great man was born this week
He was my beautiful son
He had such a big heart that is hard to describe
I saw
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Categories: birthday, father son, grief,

My best mam

Mother mother 
You are to me 
All things good that life can be 
This love of life 
You gave to me 
Then let me love
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Categories: son, birthday, devotion, family, mom,

Premium Member Ashen Aqualung

Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffocation.

a midnight
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Categories: abuse, father son, mental

Twenty-three

As you prepare for twenty-three,
We see the man you've come to be,
With so much grace and so much light,
You always soar to a greater height.
Throughout
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© Omar Jabak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: son, age, birthday, blessing, father,

Premium Member He stares back at me

I dreamt last night of my father.
He played on roller-skates, with
grandchildren, more likely great grandchildren,
yet to be born.

It was a family get together,
perhaps his birthday,
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Categories: children, family, father son,

To my ten-year-old son

Ten years of life story…
have brought happiness, sometimes fading joy.
Catching a glimpse of the glory...
keep striving, my brave and resilient boy.

Your remarkable mind can take
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Categories: son, birthday,


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