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Parents Verse Poems

These Parents Verse poems are examples of Verse poems about Parents. These are the best examples of Verse Parents poems written by international poets.


Ships only ghosts could ride
"The clouds parted
   like the pursed lips of desire".
Rains then poured out
   like held-back tears of anger,
shedding emotions from the sky
...

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Categories: verse, anger, grief, natural disasters,



TEARS OF A JUVENILE
Oh,it was not my intention to live this way!!
Why do you oppress me like this,
I'm incacerated at my parents house
My wish is to consolidate with...

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Categories: verse, sad,

Premium Member A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a Doctor
This poem is featured in Dr. Ivan Edwards' upcoming anthology, Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics, published by IEME LLC. The book will be...

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Categories: verse, anxiety, depression, family, inspiration,

the one who might
she has been looking for someone,
since before she knew the word for wanting,
“please, have you seen this person?”

someone who’s tall and strong
when she scratched her...

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Categories: verse, feelings, first love, light,

Premium Member Cemetery Thoughts, Some Grave
The family plot’s on cold pavement and hidden in grass,
but warm with familial heartbeats. Otherwise, the dead
become spectrals, fearsome at midnight.
—by poet

Cemetery Thoughts, Some Grave

Not...

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Categories: verse, death,



Flash points

If the flash ran into a room and switched a light on would the light hit him
if Gotham was in Africa he might have been...

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Categories: verse, poems,

Even Slums Have Parks
I walked as a grey kid
lost in his own hometown streets.

When my slow mind
began to see more clearly
it saw brick dusted air
and a sunlight blotched...

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Categories: verse, poetry,

Premium Member Resurrected Memories
"Memories buried in the wavering wash of time"

Here am I resurrecting with faith's glow
“Memories buried in the wavering wash of time”
Thankful for flowing grace along...

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Categories: verse, blessing, christian, faith, god,

The Tree That Remembers
They don’t ask if I remember.
They think I’m just a tree—
bark, leaves, and silence.
But I do.

I remember.

Before roads,
before fences,
before the wooden swing on my lowest...

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Categories: verse, nature, tree,

Premium Member TIME TO SAY I’M SORRY

Do you feel you must really say sorry,
Or are you flippant, don’t give it much worry,
Do you feel out of obligation you must
Say sorry, believe...

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Categories: verse, god,

every kiss
We kissed at the movies
We kissed in my home
We kissed on your bed
When we were all alone
We kissed in the hallways
Where no one would stare
We...

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Categories: verse, break up, deep, heartbreak,

Society's Treasure
Precious gifts, society's treasures,
Gifted from above, joy's warm glow.
Aged hearts find solace, homes filled with glee,
Yet harm them, and harm yourself, a truth to see.

Forgiving...

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Categories: verse, age, baby, care, celebration,

Premium Member She sadly remembered now
She felt putdown again today
She had forgotten about them
Parents who never liked her
Today she sadly remembered their attitudes well...

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Categories: verse, feelings, parents, sad,

Premium Member My everything
My happy girl has that gleeful grin
She peeks around shower curtain and I smile
I want to do my best as her parent
She is my joy,...

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Categories: verse, girl, parents,

Premium Member The Grid
Whoa!
Just thrown into the grid.
I just started as a human being.
Words are really hard.
You say them the wrong way people act very differently.
I also notice...

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Categories: verse, time,


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