Mother Teen Love Poems

You don’t know any better
when you’re first married at three
in a plastic princess dress
beneath an old oak tree
but then fifteen years later
it all comes crashing...

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Baby, I


When your heart is broken in two
When your sad and alone
When the hurt feels brand new
You can't stitch up a stone
Baby,I….feel you.

When you look...

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A governess, a guardian of the young, so known and dear as to be called “Mother” and a noblewoman, just barely 12 by age, named...

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Airy Wells and Emmett Street were working class kids,
Just shy of a high school diploma.
Airy’s mom had a habit of drinking too much.
Emmett’s father was...

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Mississippi 1954 

"Don’t you bring that no good 
      So and so 'round here. 
If you bring him to ma...

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Don't talk to her she's in a slump
Have you seen her belly bump?
Its beyond belief that she's so young
What kind of family is she from

Doesn't...

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My respected teacher
She treated me like a parent
Kind and caring for me
She made my life heaven,

She taught me
How to write and draw
She taught me
How to...

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A time for us when we were young,                 ...

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Here we are, not knowing what to say
To each others' face, as we both are confused
Which face do we say it to?
The faces we show,...

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As I stand on the threshold of a new phase of life,
And my hormones begin on that internal strife,
I want you to be my guiding...

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What do I See?
As I look at myself what do I see?
 I see someone who is black, darker than most people.
 Someone who has...

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Together we wanted to be. 
But something was blocking our love. 
Just one small thing. 
The love we had was forbidden.
Although neither of us could...

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People say there is nothing you can't do if you just try.
But there are so many things I can't do, it makes me cry.

I can't...

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As kids, we fell and you
Helped us up.
My mother, unemployed, tended to our every need.

As kids, we fell and you
Yelled and made us do it...

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You're always there when I need you,
or just to hang around,
You brought me into this world,
and I thank you all around,
You ask me if I...

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