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Family Verse Poems

These Family Verse poems are examples of Verse poems about Family. These are the best examples of Verse Family poems written by international poets.


The Perfect Big Sister
I am the ignored big sister, 
The good big sister,
The must be perfect big sister.
I look at the high podium that I was forced to...

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Categories: verse, anger, family, mental health,



that kind of love
I want the kind of love that young children can't stand
the kind that remind old people of their young loves
the kind where we spend hours...

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Categories: verse, love,

Premium Member The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God
Growing up in a loving family of seven—
church on Sundays,
bare feet running wild,
sharing a tricycle with three—
double the fun, one standing behind the seat.

Dreaming of...

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Categories: verse, daughter, god, grief, poetry,

Emily,
It made me so sad
when you told me
that you cut your 
wrists.

And it was made so much 
worse when
you rolled your sleeves
down and showed me
both...

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Categories: verse, abuse, addiction, analogy, anxiety,

Damnation
Farther and farther you go
I hope you dig yourself a grave
Buried and no way out
Without a coffin so I can watch you choke
On your sins...

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Categories: verse, anger, betrayal, brother, evil,



Premium Member A Wilderness of Mirrors
I wake up in a room full of mirrors,
a funhouse of distortion
where reality is blurred.
I gasp, for in one of the mirrors,
I see a young...

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Categories: verse, baby, daughter, death, Lullaby,

Premium Member The Family Reading Room

The reading skills of many men
it’s said, would improve significantly
in the “reading room” when seated 
with the printed page, and facilitate
that daily regularity most needed
to...

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Categories: verse, humor,

Just A Word
I can’t do it anymore.

They tell me to 
	do what I think is right.

But what I think is right,
 	It seems to be wrong.

Suicide.

Maybe it’s...

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© madi moore  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, 8th grade, for teens,

Because We Are Before And Now
Because we have all the leading roles
See, you and I are sitting in the same row
Even if our roads are separate
See, you're walking, and I'm...

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Categories: verse, family, friendship, love, relationship,

Premium Member Plagued by Memories
Written: April 21, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress

Quote: "We chase the light, but darkness stays, memories twist in mysterious ways." By Poet

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, analogy, memory,

Vulnerability Comes In The Form Of A Hospital Gown
The security guard at 
the hospital admired 
my taste in clothing. 

I'm certain I reminded 
him of himself when he was
younger. 

Now, he was an...

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Categories: verse, allusion, anger, how i

Happy Birthday Momma!
When I was born, my life sucked. I wasn’t important, nobody really cared. Some bad things happened, and eventually it led me to you. I...

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Categories: verse, appreciation, happy birthday, love,

Stepdaughter
When anger clouds your eyes,
And your heart fills with rage,
Unable to hold back
The hurt inside;

When you lose control
Of your inner storm,
Expelling evil
On those around you;

When...

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© Nick Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, abuse, child, daughter, family,

Ocean
I don’t like clothes, or non-water things.
Just my boat.
And as a wave comes through, it’s as if my boat could do a flip in the...

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Categories: verse, angst, lost,

God Help Us
I sat there.
Stewing.
Angry at the world.
That day,
on Easter,
I had witnessed a Christian church service.

It was cult-like.

They worshiped beings,
having little proof of their existence.
They chanted verses...

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Categories: verse, angel, anger, god, gospel,


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