#family poems on Hello Poetry

Daisy Ashcroft Feb 2021

You know, I love you to the farthest
Galaxy in our wide universe
And no scientist knows how far that is
No matter the distance they traverse.

I will love you til the sun turns white
And the stars begin to fade.
And when that time finally reached us
I'll even love you for a few more decades.

Meh

#space #love #family #eternity #stars #galaxy

Elizabethanne Feb 2021

Unravel

I take my skin
unstitching it from my body
ringing it out to dry in my bathroom tub
It’s weary and needs a moment to be laid to rest
All of it is covered in dirt-
After taking responsibility for its mother
apologizing for its brother and for its own feelings
Shame coats it-
only I couldn’t tell you who the shame belongs to
I’m only exposed heart and bone right now
please do not mind the blood I leave at your feet
This is all I have left over as an apology

- when do we stop letting other peoples mistakes become our own
- I am still trying to figure it out

#sad #love #family #angry #nervous #shame

ian Feb 2021

She

She
She is the one who wore long skirts with socks and birkenstocks
She is the one who danced to Grateful Dead
She is the one you hear adventures about and say, “What? That does not sound like something she would do!!”
She is the one that has the shoulder you can cry on
She is the one who will take you to the store at 10 pm at night to get supplies for a project that She said not to procrastinate
She is the one that you never want to admit is right, but usually is
She is the one you can spill your guts out to without being judged
She is the one who you can wake in the middle of the night because you can't sleep because you are nervous for a test
She is the one who lets you play hookie and go shopping when you don't feel like getting up
She is the one who helped me do everything for three months
She is the one who I strive to be like someday
She is the one who will help you do everything
She is the one who will take care of you
She is the one who I will take care when I am her age
She is Mom.

This was inspired by my mum, she is always there for me and here to listen!! Love u mum! Hope you all enjoy

#family

Swan Songs Feb 2021

****** Baptism

She sent her children off to church
While she slept with the next-door neighbour
The old man didn’t mind, of course
She was doing him a favour

And he said:
“Those kids could use the fear of God
And a taste of earthly labour
And as for romance, my dear
I’m more content with work and beer
That bloke can have you
He can have you all to himself”

Suddenly she loved him
“******* and lies,” she swore
She had looked into the future
Then she slammed the door and swore some more

And she said:
“When all is always dead and gone
Forgive, forget, relabel
You know you’re boring me to tears
Regrets, denial, fears and anger
But it’s complicated
And I don’t have a time machine”

So in the end they worked it out
But what about remainders?
We are baptised in all their fears
Regrets, denial, tears and anger
And then forsaken
As the past becomes a part of us

#past #family #childhood #nostalgia #parents

Joanne Monroe Feb 2021

Father

Father, can you feel your heart beat, beat, beat. Can you feel how it wants to leave it's cage and be free, free, free.

Father, can you feel the newly fresh wounds sprouting from your lips every time you kiss a woman, did you know it is a punishment for what you did?

Father, do you still believe the lies that you told her? An epic poem which you wrote on her waistline. Did you know that you hurt her?

Father, are you there? I can't seem to hear the tumultuous symphony your heart makes when you're scared, father? Did you found the courage to take flight? Father... Please come back.
- The Poet A

#personal #pain #love #hope #teen #family

Its-me-your-broken-demons92 Feb 2021

Colours of my love

Writing letters of my love for you, knowing you never really felt it too, thinking of the days gone by and realising our picture perfect story was all just a lie.

So it seems you broke my heart, my ignorance has struck again, I failed to see it from the start, when I was made blind by my foolish heart.

The colours of my love for you has changed its shade from red to blue, the day you left me with a pocketful of promises and a head full of broken dreams of me and you.

You left me all alone, wondering what I did wrong when you missed my calls and I needed you, you said to me now and forever and I believed it all but I was a fool for catching feelings and falling for you.

The colours of my love for you has changed its shade from red to blue, the day you left me with a pocketful of promises and a head full of broken dreams of me and you.

You packed a suitcase with the pieces of my broken heart when you put a stop to all my loving schemes and drove me away with the venomous words you threw my way.

A long nights ride to nowhere land, with tears in my eyes as I watched you leave it all behind without a word but just a look I lost all hope that there's any future of me with you

The colours of my love for you has changed its shade from red to blue, the day you left me with a pocketful of promises and a head full of broken dreams of me and you.

And so our story has come to an end, so much for happily ever after, when all I'm left with are memories of you and the days I wasted giving it all to you.

With a shattered heart and a lost soul grieving, I regret ever giving my life to you, but with the pain and sorrow you left me with I learned to see the worth that I deserve and should be given.

And if the time ever comes that you want to say you're sorry for all the hurt and the sadness you left me with, the times I was so gullible falling for all the sweet lies you told me, I'll be right there facing you with the devil within me.

The colours of my love for you has changed its shade from red to blue, the day you left me with a pocketful of promises and a head full of broken dreams of me and you.

Wrote this in 2019 about my parents who had a volatile relationship for as long as I can remember and the stories my Mum has told me about my dad who was a waster ✌️💜

#colours #love #brokenhearted #volatile #broken #family