Family Verse Poems

When the dirt covers your body
you will truly remember all that you loved
all that you hated, it will grow through
your thighs, between your armpits
between your...

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He was just a boy alone in journey of life 
Morals, high standards upon family name he walks 
No recollection to memory, just brief thought...

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Not sure when it started at 6 staying
out of a brutally violent household
taking to the unforgiving streets.

The streets became my teacher and
family albeit dangerous life...

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I did not come to win the world—
I came to feel it bleed.
To taste the silence in the hungry mouth,
To weep where no one dared...

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If he could enter the military
he would serve his country
like his father and his uncle;
If she could marry a man
she would raise a family
like her...

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Her newborn girl wasn't given to her
for the crucial skin to skin contact
instead the nurses took the baby away
and returned the daughter back to the...

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Do you remember how it felt? 
Do you know what it feels like to feel worthless, not enough, to question love? 
Do you remember not...

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I miss my mom.
I don’t remember much about her,
It’s been over a decade and a half since
I last saw her,
Before she faded into
The person she’s...

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When you were born I was surprised, of this precious little girl of mine;
looking up at me with big eyes of wonder, I cried tears...

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a black dress
an open casket
friends and family all around me,
trying to reach me 
i couldn’t hear them, not at all
the only thing i could look...

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Upon a grassy hill, so long ago,
our lovely, old Victorian-style home
was built in eighteen eighty-six, aglow
with cozy rooms and firesides burning bright. 
So charming were...

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I come home I am smiling 
Look do they see me ?
Do not say anything 
Knew I was gone? 
Something inside me
Dead for a long...

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Winters are vital for all mankind.
And there's snow on mountain tops;
But for most, it's not fun.

Springs are alive and speak to us all.
But it's not...

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Lost in the labyrinth of my mind,
Bound by despair, with no respite to find.
My heart's chained to this life of strife,
Though all around me, family...

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I was born in absence—
not just of a father,
but of the myth of one.
Raised by silence,
I searched for manhood
in shadows and wounds.

My name is Oedipus...

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