Family Tree Poems

Feeling as if you’ve been kicked in the nuts with a golf shoe is similar to being ghosted by someone with you had a connection....

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Trees form an alliance…you might say they’re in cahoots…
with other trees and organisms that intertwine within their roots.

Pine, fir, palm, cherry, maple…it matters not what...

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Spring and Summer those seasons went by
The best thing in the world always falls from the sky
No matter the situation, the love was theirs
The price...

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Violet Smith lived in Center Kingdom. Her neighbors were Jack and Jill;
Like orange sun, of a pink morning, when it's just peeking over blue hills.

With...

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I am a shadow on the branch of the family tree,
A lost echo in the memory of a mother who would shudder with shame,
A shapeless...

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
Mark Twain


I have spent a...

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‘I was born with the meaning of home running through my veins.”
—Lauren Eden The Lioness Awakens, Poems

Light

i swing
in trees I can’t get down from
i buried...

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Cranberry garlands the Christmas tree
Piña empanadas and gifts of filigree 
Children’s faces aglow
Kissing ‘neath the mistletoe 
Midnight mass tradition with family

    ...

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Jack Horner was an impish little boy, who lived on Cherry Orchard farm;
That produced varieties of fruit. For a mellowing sun, kept groves warm.

The Horners...

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Two hearts intertwined.

Branches merge into one tree,

Families unite....

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This is about a First Time Spirit of the Soul Adventure Looking Eyes around with eyes wide with joy joy joy joy is kisses jubilation...

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I read her old letters from time to time
Hoping one day she may still write
Pretending she's still just miles away
I'll send my letters out anyway
As...

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Twas the night before Christmas-
and my tree needed some decorations,
within a tattered box were some old creations;
from grandma, from mom, and from family donations.

So,...

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You come to me in my dreams
A foggy night a distant memory 

I will never see you in life
But I’ll share your face in time

Family...

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Like a tree, a family and its branches spread out and grow in different directions but are all rooted in the same soil. 

Diverse be...

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