Bookmark

Donate

Search Site

   

Videos
All Categories
Poems
Free Poetry Contest
Recent Poems
Visions Journal
Poetry Contests
Enter Poetry Contest
Contest Results
Writing Services
Print on Demand
Poetry Forums
Poems Database
All Forums
Java Hut
Love Poems
Friendship Poems
Teen Poems
Wedding Poems
Funny Poems
Inspirational Poems
Birthday Poems
Sports Poems
Information Portal
Main Index
Writers, Poets, Artists
Finances - Legal
Real Estate
Travel - Entertainment
Health
Education
Sports
Cars, Trucks, Boats,etc.
Other
Poetry Features
Poets in Residence
Link Exchange
Other
Contact Us

Click here to subscribe to our website newsletters

Members 80,000+

VoicesNet

 

 
TOP POETS ALL POEMS POETRY FORUMS AUTHORS MEMBER POEMS BLOGS CONTEST RESPONSES INFO RATINGS
 

Two Poems from our Family Poetry Collection

 
 
A DREAM ONCE...
   
Author: Lacey Cusumano
   
Poem:
A DREAM ONCE...
   
  My dreams were found last.
Yet, that is the way it is supposed to go.
See, if they came first,
Who then would appreciate them?
There would be no late night study,
Tears from hard work,
Tears of frustration of time,
Feeling everything slip past,
Waiting for time
Tick-tocking away,
Day after day,
month after month,
year after year.
Yearning only for what you see of the future
Not what you do and feel daily.
But worse than not having a dream,
Not able to have a higher purpose,
not having anything to strive for,
is simply forgetting.
With a 50 hour work week,
Feeding fast meals to your hearts strings,
Baths, pajamas, kisses,
Dishes, dusting, mopping, vacuuming,
Baseball games, football practice,
cheerleading tryouts,
Weeping in exhaustion,
falling asleep before laying in bed,
and sleeping your life away,
only briefly remembering your dreams
in that sleeping time
not remembered in waking hours.
But you awake with a purpose,
With confidence, ambition,
Love radiating to the miniature selves
Patience abloom
Because happiness, success was seen, lived,
Dreams were actually true,
In your dreams,
But when you realize
That should never be the only place your dream should live,
Will you then have the courage
To step away from the routine,
To give less of yourself in all facets
To be able to be more,
To live more,
To cherish more,
What your dreams spawned from
What your dreams legacy will leave.
I’m not sure,
perhaps I should be asked
In a few more months.
   
  More Family poems
 
 
MY HOPE, MY DEAR
   
Author: Sarahjane Bennett
   
Poem: MY HOPE, MY DEAR
   

My big sister is a blind soldier
She fights against the current that swarms her
Like a blue tornado
Sissy’s love life is always wind blown
And her future is in the shadows
I try to be her candle
But I can’t see in the dark

Trudging through these trials of cement
Life’s like an escalator quick in descent
I want to pull you out, my dear
But its hard when you’re so high above me
I can’t see past what my damn glow shows
My burdens avalanche like dark gray snow
But I must somehow convince you, my dear
I’m still your rock, your refuge from fear

The doctor says we’ll never walk again
We’ll collect dust on our mantles of sin
But I’m by your side and my shoulders are raised
So no reason exists to be afraid
We are two little girls in this massive world
I swear I’ll get a running start and I’ll push you far ahead
I wanna be your dust
You can trust
Your little to sister to make sure you’ll surface
You are going to shine, my dear
An example to generations from here
And I’ll mix my dust with my tears
And mold a tribute to my sissy’s grace

On I’ll trudge through my trials of cement
You’ll look like an angel from where I sit
I’ll shout my pride out loud, my dear
And watch you twirl in the breeze up above
My dim glow will slowly snuff
Buried under that avalanche of dark gray luck
Always remember my hope, my dear
Never forget my love

Never forget my love, my dear
I’ll prove it through my tears
Always remember my hope, my dear
Always remember my love, my dear
 
More Family poems

Thousands of free poems and blogs and other documents

Poems Database Main Index by Category

Sign up to post your poems and other writings for Free. Enter our contests! Play Games!.

Print on Demand Service from VoicesNet.

Try out our Infoportal

 

Copyright belongs to author.  Poems forbidden from being copied and used for commercial purposes without the written consent of the author.


 

 

 

 


 


  home