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The term "parents and child" has been searched for 40 times on the American Poems site since October 24th, 2005.
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1. The Fall - written by Russell Edson
Read 2467 times on American Poems.
There was a man who found two leaves and came
indoors holding them out saying to his parents
that he was a tree.
To which they said then go into the yard and do
not grow in the living room as your roots may
ruin the carpet.
He said I was... (Read full poem)
2. Willie Pennington - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 469 times on American Poems.
They called me the weakling, the simpleton,
For my brothers were strong and beautiful,
While I, the last child of parents who had aged,
Inherited only their residue of power.
But they, my brothers, were eaten up
In the fury of the flesh, which... (Read full poem)
3. Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) - written by William Matthews
Read 610 times on American Poems.
The lump of coal my parents teased
I'd find in my Christmas stocking
turned out each year to be an orange,
for I was their sunshine.
Now I have one C. gave me,
a dense node of sleeping fire.
I keep it where I read and write.
"You're on chummy terms... (Read full poem)
4. Christmas At The Orphanage - written by Bill Knott
Read 886 times on American Poems.
But if they'd give us toys and twice the stuff most
parents splurge on the average kid, orphans, I submit, need more than enough;
in fact, stacks wrapped with our names nearly hid
the tree: these sparkling allotments yearly
guaranteed a lack... (Read full poem)
5. The Parent - written by Ogden Nash
Read 6862 times on American Poems.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.(Read full poem)
6. At The Smithville Methodist Church - written by Stephen Dunn
From Stephen Dunn -- New and Selected Poems 1974 - 1994.
Read 1349 times on American Poems.
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week,
but when she came home
with the "Jesus Saves" button, we knew what art
was up, what ancient craft.
She liked her little friends. She liked the songs
they sang when they weren't
twisting and... (Read full poem)
7. Soliloquy In Circles - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3984 times on American Poems.
Being a father
Is quite a bother.
You are free as air
With time to spare,
You're a fiscal rocket
With change in your pocket,
And then one morn
A child is born.
Your life has been runcible,
Irresponsible.
Like an arrow or a javelin
You've been... (Read full poem)
8. Ethiopia Saluting the Colors. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 2852 times on American Poems.
1
WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human,
With your woolly-white and turban’d head, and bare bony feet?
Why, rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?
2
(’Tis while our army lines Carolina’s sand and... (Read full poem)
9. 1954 - written by Sharon Olds
Read 1926 times on American Poems.
Then dirt scared me, because of the dirt
he had put on her face. And her training bra
scared me—the newspapers, morning and evening,
kept saying it, training bra,
as if the cups of it had been calling
the breasts up—he buried her in... (Read full poem)
10. Before Sleep - written by Catherine Anderson
Read 2866 times on American Poems.
I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth and detail.
I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these... (Read full poem)
11. Tableau At Twilight - written by Ogden Nash
Read 3599 times on American Poems.
I sit in the dusk. I am all alone.
Enter a child and an ice-cream cone.
A parent is easily beguiled
By sight of this coniferous child.
The friendly embers warmer gleam,
The cone begins to drip ice cream.
Cones are composed of many a vitamin.
My lap... (Read full poem)
12. Child Margaret - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1777 times on American Poems.
THE CHILD Margaret begins to write numbers on a Saturday morning, the first numbers formed under her wishing child fingers.
All the numbers come well-born, shaped in figures assertive for a frieze in a child’s room.
Both 1 and 7 are... (Read full poem)
13. April 26 - written by David Lehman
Read 675 times on American Poems.
When my father
Said mein Fehler
I thought it meant
"I'm a failure"
which was my error
which is what
mein Fehler means
in German which
is what my parents
spoke at home(Read full poem)
14. Child - written by Carl Sandburg
From Chicago Poems.
Published in 1916.
Read 4021 times on American Poems.
The young child, Christ, is straight and wise
And asks questions of the old men, questions
Found under running water for all children
And found under shadows thrown on still waters
By tall trees looking downward, old and gnarled.
Found to the... (Read full poem)
15. Sadness - written by Donald Justice
Read 8777 times on American Poems.
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Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,
Why were you so sad on porches, whispering?
What great melancholies were loosed among our swings!
As before a storm one hears the leaves whispering
And marks each small change in the atmosphere,
So... (Read full poem)
16. the times - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 867 times on American Poems.
it is hard to remain human on a day
when birds perch weeping
in the trees and the squirrel eyes
do not look away but the dog ones do
in pity.
another child has killed a child
and i catch myself relieved that they are
white and i might... (Read full poem)
17. When We Were Here Together - written by Kenneth Patchen
Read 1156 times on American Poems.
when we were here together in a place we did not know, nor one
another.
A bit of grass held between the teeth for a moment, bright hair on the
wind.
What we were we did not know, nor even the grass or the flame of
hair turning to ash on the... (Read full poem)
18. First Child ... Second Child - written by Ogden Nash
Read 5641 times on American Poems.
FIRST
Be it a girl, or one of the boys,
It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois,
It is red, it is boiled; could the obstetrician
Have possibly been a lobstertrician?
His degrees and credentials were hunky-dory,
But how's for an infantile... (Read full poem)
20. Slippery - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1779 times on American Poems.
THE SIX month child
Fresh from the tub
Wriggles in our hands.
This is our fish child.
Give her a nickname: Slippery. 5(Read full poem)
21. Child of Jesus - written by Joseph Mayo Wristen
From There is a Dead Man Living in my Kitchen.
Published in 2004.
Read 1799 times on American Poems.
Sara
allow me to believe in your love
Saint of Awareness
tear of blood dripping
down your Father’s cheek
inside a French Church.
Outside the graveyard i
stood waiting touched
by the truth of your gift
Child of Forgiveness
your... (Read full poem)
22. So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2012 times on American Poems.
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,
For I wish to be purged of an urge.
It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,
And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my... (Read full poem)
24. Portrait - written by Louise Gluck
From Descending Figure.
Published in 1980.
Read 1876 times on American Poems.
A child draws the outline of a body.
She draws what she can, but it is white all through,
she cannot fill in what she knows is there.
Within the unsupported line, she knows
that life is missing; she has cut
one background from another. Like a... (Read full poem)
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