Categories:
child, parents,
Form: Couplet
Get Up“Get Up.”
I don’t remember hitting the floor. Just the sharp cut between feeling dizzy and suddenly being on the ground. My body felt far away, like I was watching myself from outside my own skin. My head was buzzing, my vision blurred at the edges. The first thing I heard wasn’t concern.
It was my mother’s...
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Categories:
parents, 10th grade, abuse, bullying,
Form: Free verse
CrumbleYou always said you knew me so well;
better than I knew myself.
You'd tell me all about me:
what I wanted, how I felt.
I'd do just what you told me.
You'd say I sinned, so I confessed.
Because of course it's true—
it came from you,
and you always know best.
You always said you were protecting me,
sheltering me,
keeping me safe.
And I...
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Categories:
abuse, mother daughter, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Quiet GriefMother’s Day feels like a joke with no punchline, like the kind of card you don’t buy because you’d have to lie in cursive. I stare at the shelves lined with pastel lies, the soft-scripted thank yous, and the you’ve always been there's. I want to scream at the cardboard. Always been there? Where? In...
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Categories:
parents, 10th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
parents, people,
Form: Monoku
I Wish You Had DiedShe was a pariah
In her own family
Two angry parents
Said “I wish you had died”
She was two
But she got the message
They were angry
Because her surgery cost them money...
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Categories:
abuse, parents,
Form: Free verse
Rats and RosesI don’t have my learners permit.
I have had to be the adult my whole life.
I have had to tend to their outbursts and tantrums.
I have survived all their rat runs
I’ve always told myself it’s an assessment
A test of my determination
I will soon regain my adolescence
They’re just giving me a foundation,
I have had to deal with...
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Categories:
parents, 12th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
A Sonnet by This Arrant Bard, an OtherA sonnet by this arrant bard, an other,
whose sole half-brother, a real piece of work,
and single parent (mother like no other!),
together were no warm nor loving perk.
In her heart, mother disowned me in life.
My younger half-brother begrudged my...
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Categories:
parents, brother, childhood, jealousy, mother,
Form: Sonnet
Progess
I
cannot
imagine
future living
without eyes tearing
while screams chest develop -
no acceptance views sooth me -
wanting release for inner peace
seems a futile painful endeavor
I hear heaven's precious angels crying -
relationships worship purpose tainted
truth will be lost as dysfunctions grow -
artificial intelligence
violates all hearts minds souls -
it is not progressive
but sick...
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Categories:
parents, anger, betrayal, children, evil,
Form: Etheree
When Wishes Come True
A Mom and Dad who'd drifted far apart
walked by their little daughter's room one night
and heard, "I'm hurting right here in my heart!
I wish," she told her dolls, "they wouldn't fight
and be mean to each other. It's not right!"
Before too long those parents, who had prayed,
stood holding hands outside...
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Categories:
child, parents,
Form: Quintain (English)
Her Parents are TiredHe has a tendency to listen to no one
A proclivity to overreact, he is not fun
His ideas lean toward the conservation realm
Has propensity to look danged stubborn on film...
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Categories:
parents, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Esme Teresa and Elle Norma: A Lament of LightAt twenty weeks they saw the light—
two daughters Esme Teresa and Elle Norma
wombed in delight—
before the room
...
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Categories:
parents, child, daughter, granddaughter, hope,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Parents
My father is no conversationalist. For all practical
purposes he lives in the garage where he tinkers
with nuts and bolts, the lawnmower and the car.
My mother talks a lot. She lives on the telephone,
and, when not at her housework, buries her nose
in travel magazines that tout places exotic and far.
It’s crossed my mind many...
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Categories:
parents, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Some parents need to read Revelation Twenty twelveTo all you parents out there who doesn't have a clue.
God is always watching and sees all that we do.
We will give account to him for how we raise our kids.
Stop blaming everyone else for the things you did.
You blame the teacher, police and others for the things they do.
When most behavior that they have,...
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Categories:
parents, abuse, bible, black african
Form: Rhyme
HER PARENTS KNEW EXACTLY WHAT TO SAY
When their daughter’s dream was shattered…when she thought her life was through…
she ran to her parents…crying…saying she didn’t know what to do.
They embraced her and immediately knew exactly what to say…
They will tell her just because one dream has broken
not to throw her other dreams away.
They will tell her sometimes hearts get broken…they’re not made...
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Categories:
parents,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Parents Poems
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abusive, anniversary, bereaved, beautiful, child, daughter, death, divorce, divorced, heaven, losing, love, missing you, reunited, son, thank you, wedding,
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