Parents

Every often when the lecture began,
A student of the first bench would always raise a hand.
...

I've been sitting here watching
The clouds on your wall
Hoping so bad
I won't ever get...

Father, John DeFoore Sr
98 years old
7:00 AM
23rd February 2018

I never...

When I had my parents,
when I had my brothers
complaining of anything
and everything I...

As a child my mother would read us poetry
I was too young to understand
how fire and ice and...

On the fifth of February,nineteen sixty six
I started with my life's building bricks
Born at...

As you lay on my chest.
Listening to the sound of my heartbeat.
Its like music to your ears...

Blood of my blood
Bone of my bone
First born daughter
How 27 years have flown

...

"Are you ready,
to take the First Step,
to becoming a better person,
or would you...

I have a “Treasured Photograph”, taken when I was almost three;
My Mother sitting close to us, me...

Inspired by Lodigiana’s brilliant poem “In a Child’s Eye”
.
A parent's path into a child's...

I just remembered a funny story, it happened when I was a lad;
I was three or four years old then,...

You think I don't reach out. You think I'm afraid. Little do you know I'm not crying because you yelled at...

Standing in a playground
Freezing in the cold
Is the part of parenthood
You are never...

She's got her name in lights every night in her fathers eyes
She reads to escape and its never too...

We imagine a mother as powerful and strong
Sometimes this couldn't be more wrong
A mother...

Nineteen years old feeling alone
Until the day you came into this world
I thought my life...