Family Verse Poems

Growing up,
I was the runt of the litter.
My siblings called me Cute,
because I was the youngest one.
It was very hard growing up as a little...

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Ashore at last

The night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen
showing a black movie, ca 1963
A time machine of memories sent him back to...

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Stevie, Earth Angel

You were born blind
Eyes that could not see the beauty
Of your own sweet smile
Yet you saw beauty 
in the people who loved you
...

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why you have to hate
our youth age
specifically
our loving sisters

you should know
that we're born from
these incredibles
women that would heal

why you need to be crucial
why to be...

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My Granddaughter wrote this a few years ago she is now 16 and since lost her mother when she was 15 at the time and...

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It’s my graduation,
What an awesome day,
What can I say,
Up a few steps,
Then capped,
Then down a few,
Between me and you,
All of 90 seconds
No more,
No fuss, no...

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Love, what is love? It means so much
To many it might be the love of a child
the joy of seeing them smiling at you
with happiness...

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The lady with red dreadlocks Toni Townsend 
Johnson henry she was one rasta Andrews female 
drug dealer from the devils triangle in Tampa outside 
USF...

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Diaries left open and letters framed,
chronological ink waving from a horizon, gone.
Clothes hung to recreate a wedding, a dance, a touch – 
enclosed in glass...

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A heavenly mix,
that gives a perfect fix.
They say blood is thicker than water,
a reverberating old proverb.
But, I object!!!
Course in the world I am living,
water is...

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Igniting pain retrieving the chemical imbalance 
in my brain soft tissue itched my frontal lobe 
leaned over my forehead as my temporal lobe 
offered little...

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Fatal love

Love is life, love creates more love and lives
Love comes from life, love exists for new life
New lives come from love. Life is life...

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A single mote of sand gives birth to a pearl,
A seed of solace blossoms into a shell.
Our time tide is an outlet for love,
Charm clings...

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REQUIEM FOR A MOTHERLESS CHILD

Hallelujah….. Hallelujah…..Hallelujah

Leaning on the somewhat-padded kneelers
is a family lined horizontal to the father.
This is as close as they’ve been to each
other...

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I remember my grandma’s house
Spending so many hours with her
She always had that one special chair
No one but her was allowed to use
She always told...

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