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Family Surreal Poems

These Family Surreal poems are examples of Surreal poems about Family. These are the best examples of Surreal Family poems written by international poets.

If I Could Write for a Million Years

If I could write for a million years.

Would I write big or small?

Would I take breaks?

Maybe a hundred year break here and there.

To gather new...

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Categories: stars, surreal,

THOSE DAYS

Truly those days were fun,
Little children playing each,
With a fine decorated toy gun,
Life was serious yet catchy;
And we were easily convinced
‘ Sit back, I will...

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Categories: surreal, character, depression, identity, integrity,

Sister brother mother dad

This is a point of view of a family member whose mental health was ignored and his voices made him do these unthinkable atrocities to...

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Categories: surreal, abuse, anger, betrayal, crazy,

Some Say

Some say
History is ugly
Some say
It didn’t happen
Some
Just don’t want to acknowledge
Some
Just want to view the art
Some
Don’t have a voice


I enter the old home
Via the back...

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Categories: surreal, history, voice,

Catching Silver

When death, like silence 
Creeps into or sleepy lives

We feel the moorings untie 
The threads that tangle our lives

We feel the currents of emotion upend...

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Categories: surreal, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,

Memory of Bones

The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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Categories: surreal, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,

Untitled

The possessions I pray upon,
Are not meant for me to grasp,
Toughs of becoming a man,
Is unreachable like the stars.

Joy I once had turned into fear,
Prayers,...

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Categories: surreal, appreciation, life, natural disasters,

Car Wreck Psychodrama

My YouTube Russian car crash wreckophilia 
comes from a bad head on in the family car
near rural Shreveport Louisiana in 1947
when I was a tyke...

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Categories: surreal, how i feel,

An Odd Room

This room is odd…
Do I remember it? 
This house is big but surely…

I have been in this room before
The paintings are odd in subject matter,
Execution,...

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Categories: surreal, adventure, allegory, allusion, art,

A Quiet River

Along a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that...

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Categories: surreal, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,

One Foot In the Grave

 
I almost died the other day
but fate said to wait for another day 
I was walking along & the world looked surreal 
Not imagining...

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Categories: surreal, care, death, fate, grave,

Alabaster Sky

I.  The coming storm…

Looking into the distance along a windswept beach. Feeling the vast vault of alabaster sky. High! Feeling the cooling winds, as...

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Categories: surreal, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,

Death and Life

I
She said, "I had no time for death:
Why did Creation give me lungs - two?"
I wonder about immortality, do you?
Yet I ponder, how quickly we...

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Categories: surreal, bible, death, depression, jesus,

Manifest

Dreams came true
                      ...

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Categories: surreal, beautiful, betrayal, deep, dream,

For the Love of Cats

…is a cat not the totem of love

your physical contact generates feelings
were the neurons release 
the feeling for good vibes
peace, harmony 

by stroking soft gentle...

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Categories: surreal, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,