Love Parents Poems

I told the child, "I love you so."
He said in return, "Yeah, I know!"...

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Mother’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...

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I 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...

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At twenty weeks      they saw the light—  
two daughters  Esme Teresa and Elle Norma    
...

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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...

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Heart, shiver, tender, cold, gaze, river

In that broad, old night,
In the dark—the grip was tight,
A coo, a warm breath—soothed my heart,
Shivered, “son, you’re the knight,”
Mom,...

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For Suzette’s: Light or Shadow contest

“when you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives”
  Lauren Eden...

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I *gate* my heart, my *jewel*, my happiness
in the *shadows* beneath my chest
Outside they *mutter* about dangerous games
But I'm no knight,  I don't own...

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In a world of colors, bright and bold,  
Lives a kid named Cat, with a story untold.  
With a heart full of dreams,...

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It aches in my spirit,
the heartfelt music of stillness
clinging to the breath, tender
erasing the melody of gentleness
restoring the memory
a sense of what if… being revealed
on...

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The Miss

I’ll miss you,
  A Truth, I’ve always missed you.
     An opening act, blurred by time and a feeble mind
	Hugs,...

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Dear Parents,
We know that you love us a lot,
But sometimes, all a child need is
A little understanding from your side.

Dear Parents,
Love should not feel like...

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Being forced to move places,
Because I have no control.
It shows how stuck I am;
How reliant I am;
How not free I am.
I am seventeen, feels like...

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She, talked, with the moon and stars,
Here, she
In search of love, from those close ones,
But, only, finds her heart apart, &lone.
And she wanders far.
Even every...

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 ' Maternal love is an instinct, but paternal love is also distinct.' -  Poet

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