Family Poems. Above are examples of beautiful Poems about families, relatives, and the bonds they share. This list of family poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. When the husband, wife, kids and other family members make an effort to notice and acknowledge each other's good qualities, the family unit flourishes. However, families can also experience severe problems which often leads to a poet expressing emotions about these strained relationships. Still, you may be able to relate to these beautiful poems about families and relatives whether you have a traditional, extended, or stepfamily. Read all types of family poems and share these poems with the ones you love.
Dinner tablesCentral location for family to sit and connect away from TV and hopefully phones...
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Categories:
family,
Form: Monoku
Loving FamilyLoving family
Is a treasure comes from God
Make most out of it....
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Categories:
family, inspiration, perspective, truth,
Form: Haiku
broken glass in the kitchenGlass
Slivers
Broken chards
In the kitchen
We are all barefoot
Daddy’s eyes are not sharp
Baby wants to help of course
Big sister takes baby upstairs
Mama heads for the broom and dustpan
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Categories:
family,
Form: Nonet
Years sealed
Hold on I got some things you want to hear so listen up while I make it clear
We started out as friends now we're lovers
From the gate you had your feelings...
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Categories:
deep, family, fate, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
I Will Wait For YouI Will Wait For You
Vs1.
I've been searching this long, lonesome time
To find the One who will forever be mine
Even though we haven't met
My heart is steady and my mind is set
To our future love,...
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Categories:
death, devotion, family, longing,
Form: Lyric
The Rhea FamilyThere once was a fam’ly named Rhea
And no one would say, ”Glad to see ya’”
Dear Sebor and Pyor,
...
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Categories:
family, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
LanternsUsed in festivals as lighting the way for the souls of our ancestors...
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Categories:
family,
Form: Monoku
Treasured Place
Pockets are a treasured place,
Except when the laundry is done,
Then they are called a disgrace.
Everything...
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Categories:
family, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Can't rebuildIn my sense of dwarfish
I sought to fill the hole in
Myself with plain grass and cow dung
But know I see that the kinly love
I wish to carry and craddle
Is locked behind a curtain...
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Categories:
family, anti bullying, bullying, cry,
Form: Ninette
SIBLING SUPPORT
Special child triumphs midst physical zest
Expressing his love with warm gestures’ best
As his hugs and embrace
Reign over wheelchair race
Making him the winner in running test!
In pursuit to be champ in sports fest
Our special son is...
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Categories:
family, appreciation, blessing, child, christian,
Form: Limerick
Dad’s EyesI recall Dad’s eyes;
his glare so stern, so piercing
- no words were needed -
but the message was so clear:
I expect better from you.
In many matters
we did not see eye-to-eye,
but he always cared;
and in...
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Categories:
appreciation, family,
Form: Tanka
Art LectureI went to the art lecture
Because I knew it would
Be dark, and I could sit
In the back of the room
In back of all the backs
Of heads staring forward
At the slides shuttering by,
Oil strokes, cut...
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Categories:
death, family,
Form: Free verse
Mother's Day 2024Today is Mother's Day of 2024.
But you died and you can't celebrate Mother's Day anymore.
You were a wonderful mother and I'm your youngest son.
You died eleven years ago in 2013 when I was forty-one.
You were...
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Categories:
family, mom, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
A mother's endearmentIn the vast realm of this wretched misery
There lives a prowess, with an ardent melody;
She emanates the beacon of her loving light
She is my bastion, in times of blight;
Her adoring caresses parries my solitude
For her...
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Categories:
care, family, mother, mother
Form: Rhyme
The Man Obsessed with Statistics
Dad writes articles chock-full of stats.
Just refer to his latest on rats!
Both my brothers, my sis,
Mom, and I all say this:
We'd prefer sagas starring cute cats.
Name now one man but Dad who would say,
"Evil...
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Categories:
family, father, write,
Form: Limerick
Specific Types of Family Poems
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addiction, beautiful, birthday, black, blended, broken, brother, christian, christmas, death, difficult, father, fathers day, funeral, funny, graduation, grandchildren, grandfather, grandmother, hard times, holiday, hope, inspiration, love, mother, mother child, mother daughter, mothers day, niece, relationship, rhyme, sibling, sister, step families, trials, values,
and more.
Definition | What is Family in Poetry?
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