Family Tree Poems - Poems about Family Tree

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 roots tender torn apart Broken due to slavers cold heart What was meant for evil we pray Leads to blessings victory days First black president of USA And black First Lady descendant of slaves Family history...

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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 it may The same seed we began and united all shall remain ...

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The wedding ceremony is over… to the world we’ve added a new husband and wife. The cabin has returned to normal and everyone’s gone back to their life. As I sit on the porch in the quiet..watching birds at the feeder…I’m enthralled as the trees continue to change color and their leaves continue to fall… I once believed when it...

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The function of our family tree is to keep us safe and cool and warm… to offer us a comfortable place to rest and to give us shelter from the storm. But when I gaze out on our world…it’s bittersweet what I see… I see one beautiful planet Earth inhabited by one dysfunctional family. Our dysfunction is how we’ve...

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Looking past and long ago trails of names come trickling down down they come through the annals of time their names defined neatly arranged, in staggered lines. Forgotten lists of greats and grands silent, as their memories stand in the past, immortal bands. Family trees are carefully writ down into the logs they go mothers, fathers reap and sow bearing children, they bestow offspring issued in straight rows. Trailing...

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This is life after death, after life Death during life Losing time, wasting time, spending time Time after time So Cyndi Lauper says I was in Kindergarten on the school bus staring out the window the first time that song played in my head This was the birth of my introspection I wanted someone to find me I had looked around all the...

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Am I my father? looking into a mirror am i my mother?...

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Today I’m thankful for our family tree for contained within it leaves and branches are the people in our life…who currently adore us… and contained within its roots are all our ancestors who came before us....

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I was putting away some Fiesta Ware the other day when, noticing all the colors in front of me I had to stop and smile at how they reminded me of our family tree. I love our family tree…love every leaf…love its branches one and all… love how it is painted all year long…in colors of the Fall. I’m...

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Let me catch you in the morning when the sun comes out. Under the dawn of light, you’re a beautiful sight. With your warmth swirls with a dance before me, like butterflies in flight. Taking my soul for a ride, down by the tree we go with the light of day setting down on us. Kickin’ back against the...

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We had three children; Gave us five grandkids. Those bore three more- Fourth branch fills tree! ...

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My mom and dad had an effective parenting technique… They were never too strict…unfair…or mean… They were constantly reminding me how our family tree is not deciduous…but an evergreen. How each year our tree grows taller… How I am but one branch upon that tree. How all I have to do is look up… so see my ancestors watching over me. Yes, it’s...

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The roots of a family tree run deep for they were planted long ago. generation upon generation have nurtured and watched that family grow into a tree whose strength and beauty is impossible deny. into a tree whose myriad of branches now reach high up to the sky, There is also no denying how the formation of that tree has...

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Blessed are those hands that pluck the fruits Blessed are those people who have fruit trees in their backyard TREE is a reminder of ABUNDANCE I learned sharing my smile from tree when I got abundant fruits & oxygen everyday I learned sharing happiness from Sun when I got abundant sunlight everyday I learned sharing love...

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A Gift in Evergreen Each year we climb the narrow road Through cedar, pine and redwood Until it pokes its hatless head In the fog washed air to breath The perfume of the crest. A special day dawns for us, A family day to share, Watching a frisky winter sun Lay quilts of sunbeams on the hills And harvest treasures of...

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