A collection of 125 modern poems based on the poets' experiences of family life, as parents, children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, cousins, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren.
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Reflexes by Marvin Bell
To My Children, Fearing For Them by Wendell Berry
At The Funeral Of Great-aunt Mary by Robert Bly
Thanksgiving by Philip Booth
The Ascension: 1925 by John Malcolm Brinnin
Poem For My Mother by Siv Cedering
Visit by Vic Coccimiglio
Hunting At Dusk by Doug Cockrell
Forget About It by Robert Currie
The Musician At His Work by Robert Currie
Rope And Drum by Robert Currie
What He Saw by Robert Currie
One Of The Boys by Philip Dacey
Pa by Leo Dangel
First Surf by Emanuel Di Pasquale
Kitchen Song by Jeannine Dobbs
Open Roads by David Donnell
Ten Week Wife by Rhoda Donovan
At Night by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
Uncle Claude by David Allan Evans
Both My Grandmothers 1. My Polish Grandma by Edward Field
Both My Grandmothers 2. My Russian Grandma by Edward Field
Nightmare by Edward Field
Now That Your Shoulders Reach My Shoulders by Robert Francis
My Father's Heart by Stuart Friebert
The Gone Years by Alice Fulton
The Great Aunts Of My Childhood by Alice Fulton
Needfire, This Low Heaven by Alice Fulton
Around The Kitchen Table by Gary Gildner
Portrait by Louise Gluck
All by Leona Gom
Slow Waker by Thomson William Gunn
Afternoon by Donald Hall
To My Blood Sister by Christine E. Hemp
The Dirty-billed Freeze Footy by Judith Hemschemeyer
My Mother's Death by Judith Hemschemeyer
We Interrupt This Broadcast by Judith Hemschemeyer
Clay And Water by Sandra Hochman
Remembering My Father by Jonathan Holden
Croquet by David Huddle
The Field by David Huddle
Icicle by David Huddle
In White Tie by David Huddle
Kitchen Tables by David Huddle
For My Son, Born During An Ice Storm by David Russell Jauss
Sounding by David Russell Jauss
Baking Day by Rosemary Joseph
In The Motel by X. J. Kennedy
Goodbye by Galway Kinnell
Last Born by Judith Kirkwood
For My Daughter by Ronald Boyd Koertge
He by Ronald Boyd Koertge
Stepfather: A Girl's Song by Yusef Komunyakaa
Father by Ted Kooser
My Grandfather Dying by Ted Kooser
A Room In The Past by Ted Kooser
For My Father On His Birthday by Greg Kuzma
Poop by Gerald Locklin
Birth by George Ella Lyon
Catechisms: Talking With A Four-year-old by George Ella Lyon
Cousin Ella Goes To Town by George Ella Lyon
On The Eve Of Our Anniversary by Gary Francis Margolis
Surfaces by Peter Meinke
Canning Time by Robert Morgan
Man And Machine by Robert Morgan
When The Ambulance Came by Robert Morgan
White Autumn by Robert Morgan
Trying by Leonard Edward Nathan
Edwin A. Nelms by Sheryl Lynne Nelms
How About by Sheryl Lynne Nelms
Killing The Rooster by Sheryl Lynne Nelms
Mardi Gras %grandmothers Portrait In Red And Black Crayon by James Nolan
Sum by James Nolan
Helen's Scar by Alden A. Nowlan
Subway Psalm by Alden A. Nowlan
Grandfather's Heaven by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Little Brother Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
Music by Naomi Shihab Nye
The String Of My Ancestors by Nina Nyhart
Eastern Eagle Faced Woman by Peggy O'connell
The Grass Is Full by Peggy O'connell
I Rest In Our Marriage, Our Joustling by Peggy O'connell
New Folks Bought The Place by Peggy O'connell
Among His Effects We Found A Photograph by Ed Ochester
For My Daughter by Ed Ochester
Rowing by Ed Ochester
Aunt Elsie's Night Music by Mary Oliver
A Letter From Home by Mary Oliver
Poem For My Father's Ghost by Mary Oliver
Stark County Holiday by Mary Oliver
Buying The Dog by Michael Ondaatje
A Common Light by Stephen Orlen
Family Cups by Stephen Orlen
A Real Story by Linda Pastan
In Grandfather's Glasses by Patricia Peters
Poem To Help My Father by Norma Hope Richman
Cleaning The Well by Paul Dean Ruffin
Grandpa's Picture by Paul Dean Ruffin
My Grandfather Burning Cornfields by Roger Sauls
A Kitchen Memory by Roy Martin Scheele
Mothers by Anne Sexton
Brother by Richard Shelton
Why I Never Went Into Politics by Richard Shelton
Great-grandma by Carol Diggory Shields
New Mothers by Carol Diggory Shields
Poem Of The Mother by Myra Sklarew
Aunt Melissa by R. T. Smith
Widow To Her Son by R. T. Smith
Yonosa House by R. T. Smith
Lantern by Gary Soto
Remedies by Gary Soto
At The Grave Of My Brother by William Edgar Stafford
Fall Journey by William Edgar Stafford
Commencement, Pingree School by John Updike
Business As Usual by Mark Vinz
Mac by Mark Vinz
My Father's Ghost by David Wagoner
Songs My Mother Taught Me by David Wagoner
I Was The Child by Valerie S. Warren
The River by Don Welch
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
Washing Windows by Peter Wild
Daguerreotype Of A Grandmother by Celeste Turner Wright
Murgatroyd by Celeste Turner Wright
The View From My Father's Porch by Celeste Turner Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
To My Children, Fearing For Them by Wendell Berry
At The Funeral Of Great-aunt Mary by Robert Bly
Thanksgiving by Philip Booth
The Ascension: 1925 by John Malcolm Brinnin
Poem For My Mother by Siv Cedering
Visit by Vic Coccimiglio
Hunting At Dusk by Doug Cockrell
Forget About It by Robert Currie
The Musician At His Work by Robert Currie
Rope And Drum by Robert Currie
What He Saw by Robert Currie
One Of The Boys by Philip Dacey
Pa by Leo Dangel
First Surf by Emanuel Di Pasquale
Kitchen Song by Jeannine Dobbs
Open Roads by David Donnell
Ten Week Wife by Rhoda Donovan
At Night by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
Uncle Claude by David Allan Evans
Both My Grandmothers 1. My Polish Grandma by Edward Field
Both My Grandmothers 2. My Russian Grandma by Edward Field
Nightmare by Edward Field
Now That Your Shoulders Reach My Shoulders by Robert Francis
My Father's Heart by Stuart Friebert
The Gone Years by Alice Fulton
The Great Aunts Of My Childhood by Alice Fulton
Needfire, This Low Heaven by Alice Fulton
Around The Kitchen Table by Gary Gildner
Portrait by Louise Gluck
All by Leona Gom
Slow Waker by Thomson William Gunn
Afternoon by Donald Hall
To My Blood Sister by Christine E. Hemp
The Dirty-billed Freeze Footy by Judith Hemschemeyer
My Mother's Death by Judith Hemschemeyer
We Interrupt This Broadcast by Judith Hemschemeyer
Clay And Water by Sandra Hochman
Remembering My Father by Jonathan Holden
Croquet by David Huddle
The Field by David Huddle
Icicle by David Huddle
In White Tie by David Huddle
Kitchen Tables by David Huddle
For My Son, Born During An Ice Storm by David Russell Jauss
Sounding by David Russell Jauss
Baking Day by Rosemary Joseph
In The Motel by X. J. Kennedy
Goodbye by Galway Kinnell
Last Born by Judith Kirkwood
For My Daughter by Ronald Boyd Koertge
He by Ronald Boyd Koertge
Stepfather: A Girl's Song by Yusef Komunyakaa
Father by Ted Kooser
My Grandfather Dying by Ted Kooser
A Room In The Past by Ted Kooser
For My Father On His Birthday by Greg Kuzma
Poop by Gerald Locklin
Birth by George Ella Lyon
Catechisms: Talking With A Four-year-old by George Ella Lyon
Cousin Ella Goes To Town by George Ella Lyon
On The Eve Of Our Anniversary by Gary Francis Margolis
Surfaces by Peter Meinke
Canning Time by Robert Morgan
Man And Machine by Robert Morgan
When The Ambulance Came by Robert Morgan
White Autumn by Robert Morgan
Trying by Leonard Edward Nathan
Edwin A. Nelms by Sheryl Lynne Nelms
How About by Sheryl Lynne Nelms
Killing The Rooster by Sheryl Lynne Nelms
Mardi Gras %grandmothers Portrait In Red And Black Crayon by James Nolan
Sum by James Nolan
Helen's Scar by Alden A. Nowlan
Subway Psalm by Alden A. Nowlan
Grandfather's Heaven by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Little Brother Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
Music by Naomi Shihab Nye
The String Of My Ancestors by Nina Nyhart
Eastern Eagle Faced Woman by Peggy O'connell
The Grass Is Full by Peggy O'connell
I Rest In Our Marriage, Our Joustling by Peggy O'connell
New Folks Bought The Place by Peggy O'connell
Among His Effects We Found A Photograph by Ed Ochester
For My Daughter by Ed Ochester
Rowing by Ed Ochester
Aunt Elsie's Night Music by Mary Oliver
A Letter From Home by Mary Oliver
Poem For My Father's Ghost by Mary Oliver
Stark County Holiday by Mary Oliver
Buying The Dog by Michael Ondaatje
A Common Light by Stephen Orlen
Family Cups by Stephen Orlen
A Real Story by Linda Pastan
In Grandfather's Glasses by Patricia Peters
Poem To Help My Father by Norma Hope Richman
Cleaning The Well by Paul Dean Ruffin
Grandpa's Picture by Paul Dean Ruffin
My Grandfather Burning Cornfields by Roger Sauls
A Kitchen Memory by Roy Martin Scheele
Mothers by Anne Sexton
Brother by Richard Shelton
Why I Never Went Into Politics by Richard Shelton
Great-grandma by Carol Diggory Shields
New Mothers by Carol Diggory Shields
Poem Of The Mother by Myra Sklarew
Aunt Melissa by R. T. Smith
Widow To Her Son by R. T. Smith
Yonosa House by R. T. Smith
Lantern by Gary Soto
Remedies by Gary Soto
At The Grave Of My Brother by William Edgar Stafford
Fall Journey by William Edgar Stafford
Commencement, Pingree School by John Updike
Business As Usual by Mark Vinz
Mac by Mark Vinz
My Father's Ghost by David Wagoner
Songs My Mother Taught Me by David Wagoner
I Was The Child by Valerie S. Warren
The River by Don Welch
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
Washing Windows by Peter Wild
Daguerreotype Of A Grandmother by Celeste Turner Wright
Murgatroyd by Celeste Turner Wright
The View From My Father's Porch by Celeste Turner Wright
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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