Best Parenting Poems

I sit near the window,
The mountain in view,
The garden's so quiet,
Flowers are few,
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Cover your cleavage my nieces
For the fruits are not ripe for harvest
The world has changed-they get aroused at sight
The pedophiles eyes water with lust.
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A happy hatching has occurred,
An Inca tern chick comes brand new.
The species, an endangered bird,
Can be seen at Lincoln Park Zoo.
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I long for the old days
Where we belonged to the society and the society belonged to all
I long for the old days where we smiled from the heart not from our teeth
I long for the days where communal activities brought us together as a society-no one felt alienated in a crowd
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My dad, God bless him, some thought was weird,
and not because he chewed tobacco and ….. had a beard.
But unlike some dads who leave raising kids up to 'Mom',
Dad parented gently, though he could be stern (while calm) .
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Many years ago in the early 80’s, my life was about to encounter an abrupt change. I was happily enjoying all the things that were going on in my life at that time. My husband and I enjoying good times, everything seemed to be nicely falling into place. The money was coming in on a regular basis, the children were doing well in school, sickness was almost non-existent. I was preparing for a body-building competition, my health, I thought was
excellent. I worked very hard in the gym, was determined to win the competition of course.

We just opened a new business called (Dynamic Demo) received a contract to work at the Co-op stores, fantastic I thought. While working in Co-op,
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My mother was a staunch member of the Women's Institute in the village where she lived the last thirty-five years of her life. This poem is about an incident that took place at about the same time as the Watergate scandal in the United States.

She flicks the switch, the room is bugged.
She smiles to think the girls she’s hugged
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He said to the Ocean
'how deep your depths,
how many waves
each day crest? '
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Just like all other new things
they change over time, our hearts perish
nothing is as changeable as the world itself
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She said wearily
'I am trapped
in the Chain of Desperation
trying to break free;
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It's the laughter most I miss
and doing things in the sun.
I look in the mirror glass
and see a woman still young
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Mom, Mamma, Maa, Amma
However we call
You are always by our side
To answer our cry
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My Father's words are my legacy
He gave the pen of ardent writing.
The love for books and careful study,
And wealth of knowledge gained by reading.
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(dedicated to Ms. Magdalena Kožená, a great mezzo-soprano)

listen to bees' playing
listen to rains' pouring
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Barely concealing emotion and tentative as
if mutely accusing me of complicity she
asked if I had seen her little dog. We’ve
known each other seven years; while she
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I may not be rich in wealth...
but I am wealthy in the richness of many young hearts

I may not be lucky to be gifted with life's comforts......
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They are the blind who see, they are the deaf who hear and the mute who speak
They are the disadvantaged, the disabled and the challenged
They feel everything but remain unsure of what it is they have touched
They seek God but find evil in practically everything he created
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Obituary: Common Sense


Don't know who the Author is of this piece: but wanted to share it.
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Nothing hurts me more than my own thoughts
Intelligentsias all over world have offered explanations and always sought
The adoption of whimsical ways to come out of jugglery
It is nothing but state of mind and simple misery
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***Important information, ADDED August 7th 2017:

Readers of showcases, this August's showcase has been somewhat of a bother to me, for various reasons. I've had 'technical problems' maneuvering through the process of putting it together. Much of the trouble has to do with its length and my attempts to make it more user-friendly. PoemHunter does not always cooperate either. Now I am in the process of breaking the LONG showcase (over 40 poems, by over 40 poets) into FOUR PARTS: A, B, C, and D.
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Smoking and drinking is naturally unhealthy
It is not for the poor and even the wealthy
It is not for the young and even mature
Its not for anyone that's for sure
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Harold and Betty, a nice couple I’m told,
Adopted a boy, just seven days old.
This perfect arrival, so rosy and sweet,
Gave Harold and Betty a family complete.
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From distant childhood, she grew up craving
Deprived of love and tender caring
Her mother's death in childbirth paved
An essential need a child had to waive.
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This woman has only Ravens for friends
She talks to them through the foggy wired windows of her room in the morgue
They gaggle back like gossiping black geese in the surrounding trees
As she reads aloud for them from the tear stained pages of her “autobioautopsy”
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I know it's never been safe to build there
a home in an abandoned corner, but it's been
their habit for past few years, in every summer
they choose that nook, the 'best' home they ween
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Where did you find safety when you were a child,

Did flight also help you, I wonder my friend?

I felt like it did me, but that was because

My mom didn't try hard to suss her son out.

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Driving home from daughter's school
Child asks her mother who's cool
Why Dad says when driving
'Look at the monkeys walking?
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Six kids born unto you and mom,
We had it so good and had it going on.
But somehow our world crashed in on us,
After mom passed away we all lost our trust.
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Are we really listening?
To what our children say?
Do we spend the time we should?
Teaching them…each and every day?
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Obviously, this is not an article That I wrote,
but as we try to better our understanding of what made us what it is that we are,
we must, at least some of us must, come to the realization
that as either a parent or the child of a parent
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Parenting is surrendered to television
Of five to eight hours of home education
Enemy taking over family communication
Hacking spiritual values, love-altar to destruction
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Forever your omniscience,
Will live in my heart.
From infancy to manhood,
Taught me to take responsibility;
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good parenting skills...
much love,
much encouragement,
much listening,
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Enough
Damm it
I'm had enough
Enough of your endless whining and complaining
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A Human baby! Born very hungry!
Cry is the first word in a newborn's dictionary!
Cry is the only idiom a baby manages to afford!
It is not the name of Allah, Rama, God or Lord! !
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my daughter my daughter my eldest daughter
has worked part time weekends holidays
since she was thirteen now she is older fifteen
always her choice her wishes in employment
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The young couple was about to have a baby so they thought it would be nice to sit down with his grandpa and ask for some advice.

"What can I tell you about raising children? " He said. "About helping them to grow. I guess the first thing would be to be prepared for all the things you do not know."
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He was about to become a father…yes, a child he would beget!
So he browsed through countless bookstores…and he surfed the internet.

He was searching for a book on parenting…because he didn't have a clue…
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Parenting is like flying a kite…you do an awful lot of running around
using every breath you have to get your children up off the ground.

And you never feel prouder…remember how you grinned
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I think of parenting as an art…parents are artists without constraints…whose children are blank canvases on which to apply their paint.

We remember how we also started as a blank canvas…years ago…and thus…we paint ideals and morals and values on our children…as our parents painted them on to us.
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I’ve started a 'showcase' on my PoemHunter site,
which is NOT a contest; it’s no arena for a fight,
but instead a place where once a month I shall post..
a poem* from you, a PH member, which you’d like read most.
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Speak with authority
They will obey you.

Speak with reason
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Don't know who the Author is of this piece: but wanted to share it.


Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old
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Today I cried a little, as I called my little girl
and saw her waiting by the stairs
Wedding blossoms in her hair
How gently I had touched her baby skin so fair
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Their tiny wings so weak and useless condemn them to life on the ground
The National birds of Australia in large flocks are not to be found
Yet not seen as an endangered species emus are not seen everywhere
And in parts of their range which seems a worry the big birds are becoming rare
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A brother and a sister battled all the time
Their fighting seemed to have no reason and definitely no rhyme.
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Always Be Chaste
Desire Encourages Fornication

Gossiping Heightens Individual Jeopardy
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it is a reversal of roles
now the parents in their old age
begin to forget
the children grown into strong maturity
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When Nancy is misbehaving
You take her to the parking
And give her a good whipping
To make sure she is listening.
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But, but, but why?
Why, Daddy, why?
But, but, but why?
Why, Mommy, why?
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My mother would have my sister and I...
As kids,
To go look for a nice sized switch.
Then strip it before she whipped us with it!
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Somethings from childhood till old age remain
And old Joe returns to his youth again
By stream between the hedgerow and the old dirt track
He often stood and watched the stickleback.
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Parenting, privilege and pride
A privilege to parent, honor and pride
like no other
job, hobby, responsibility Imaginable
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parents who give
everything to children
are not kind but cruel?
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SUN MOON AND STARS

When we were children,
we thought
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Hernando county Florida,
was the start of my dreams where my daughter is.
But of this other whom for another,
no longer living is.
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Don't date because you are desperate.
Don't marry because you are miserable.
Don't have kids because you think your
genes are superior.
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Those who plant seed
In every fertile hole
Then run at high speed
Oblivious of hurt soul,
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the only time a man
held my private package
I was resting back
on the examination table
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Going with the Wagner flow,
cuckolded by him, von Bülow,
whose last name with renown once shone,
ennobled by a tiny von,
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They are fed violence,
They are fed destruction.
They are fed conflict and disrespect.
Lack of discipline and personal neglect.
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With little or no awareness,
They elaborate on things.
From beliefs handed to them through gossip,
To something foolish done when they are parenting.
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The streets are full with aging teenagers.
And those who believe they are ageless!
Irresponsible and socializing their whims.
Those who can not get enough of 'happy hour'...
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I am not one to pass judgement, normally!
And those who do pass it with wild abandonment,
With a disregarding done of specific rules...
Disengaged from using practical 'sensitivities'.
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Parenting is a commitment,
Devoted to sacrificing...
For the rest of one's life.
And sometimes creating division,
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Butt strutters...
Pushing up to the curb,
With babies in tow!
And giving up nothing,
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Parenting?
Is not easy.
And knowing when to let go,
From meddling into the lives...
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The facts remain to be as they are.
Your 'baby' has been imprisioned,
Not for those 'things' you attempted to give to him.
But for those things like discipline,
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Is there an awakening stage,
Upon which children undisciplined...
Become responsible driven adults?
And suddenly a laziness condoned,
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What lovely babies born are twins –
A child of God, in His image!
Each birth is like a miracle,
But human beings soon forget.
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Baby, are you gonna kill
Your baby in the womb, again?
Baby, can you stay happy,
Walking in this sinful lane?
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To Kill a Mockingbird had Dad,
Atticus Finch, raising his kids,
Keeping his cool when they got mad.
But most parents do blow their lids,
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Remind one of the Cleavers - right?
June, Ward and Wally and the Beav,
When sitcoms were just clean delight,
Good values in which to believe,
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Colobus monkeys, ones who do
Alloparenting of their young,
Can be seen at Lincoln Park Zoo,
Sharing the parenting among
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A monkey furred all white comes new
To the colobus family
Here at home in Lincoln Park Zoo,
Adding a fourth to daughters three.
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Mr. Rufous-necked hornbill tells
Mrs. Rufous-necked hornbill that
It's been longest of bird dry spells
Lovemaking in their habitat.
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A female Francois langur is
A monkey always ready to
Assist in the parenting biz
Here at home in Lincoln Park Zoo.
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I wrote an article for Woman’s World
It was quite a few years ago
The article was about parenting
I thought you might like to know
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(The poet of evil)

Now you know my secrets
said the man with harlequin face
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Not every
Woman is
Meant to be
A mother
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Sometimes,
You should
Give them
Leeways…
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Suggested to me by one of my readers who I pray gets the help they need to understand that this is not the truth about autism

Admit it, already!
Under no circumstances is any of this false illness real
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A very dark parody tale of a young 18 year Hannah Montanna fan who takes her love for the young singer's music too far by writing and then singing a parody of one of the star's hit songs to her boyfriend about the fatal choice she made concerning both their lifes.

We had sex and we did't use any protection, but that's ok
'Cause now thanks to the local planned parenting office, I won't be having your baby one day
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Sometimes our minds are filled with self-doubt
at things we do in our lives,
yet to others they have a different point of view.
They see the things you do in another perspective.
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Chances are you shall bear a child in God's time,

Have faith and dare your hubby for mating overtime.
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Chances are you shall bear a child in God's time,
Have faith and dare your hubby to mating overtime.
Enjoy the innate intimacy in love making that you do,
Rest assured it shall soon bear fruit what you both sow.
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Marriage, a civil code by man
Sex, a divine gift to multiply clan
It’s fun and frolic meant for fest
Sperm and eggs romance in lust
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May parents
let children
follow
their own hearts
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A hookah and a marvellous variety of tobaccos,
cherry and liquorice - this explains his talkative
bouts and strange withdrawals, neatly concealed
in his school bag, I sighed, resigned; he probably
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A long way north of where i now live Koroit near Warrnambool
In Millstreet Town in Duhallow i was dunce of the school
Many Seasons before i grew into a man
Well over fifty years ago in time quite a span
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The skylark from the bracken rise and singing as she soar
And flute like notes of curlew in the bogland near Rathmore
And swallow almost touch the ground as to and fro she fly
Whenever swallow fly so low it's said that rain is nigh.
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If you visit Tower Hill in Spring you may see
Father emu and his young family
By his side slowly walking along
In the emu family love's bond it is strong
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A beautiful evening of warm sunshine and breeze
With a forecast high of twenty three degrees
On the gum trees the young long billed corellas to their parents for food do call
They may be dependent on parenting perhaps till the early Fall.
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The young man a racist just like his middle aged dad
His thinking influenced by a biased mentor which seems a bit sad
His idea of a fair go does not include all
Some in their thinking can be very small
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In the old rushy fields where the waterways meet
Just west of the County Cork Town of Millstreet
The mottled meadow pipits of feathers brown and gray
In the greeness of April are singing today
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Mum's out with her lover in the Swingers Club
And Dad with his mates guzzling beer in the Pub
And their ten year old Jake on his bicycle pedalling up and down
The dimly lit streets of the poor side of Town.
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A streak of sin was
always there, when I looked
at you in brief encounters.
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You started parenting
a blitz,
against my nest.
I am bleeding on my lines.
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There are no classes, of any kind
of lessons, on how to be a parent.
You have to learn, as you go along.
It's not the easiest task that's set
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