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40 word poems for daily challenge |
Growing up in Berkeley In a dysfunctional family With an aloof father And a wild alcoholic mother Two brothers who hated me I escaped my family To be adopted By my best friend’s family Becoming part of their happy family Post your b-item entry about the following subject:- "Happy Family." Write a Nano-story or poetry(any form). Word limit:-40. Post today. From a longer poem Growing up in Berkeley In a dysfunctional family With an aloof distant dour, Germanic politician father And a wild alcoholic mother Two brothers who hated me And an indifferent sister I escaped my family To be adopted By my best friend’s family Ruth was the matriarch Of the family Bob was the father But she ruled the roost She was a Buddhist nun He was a communist Real estate agent She had a proverbial Heart of gold When my own family forget My 18th birthday She whipped up a cake And they all celebrated My birthday Robert was my best friend Along with his brother Daniel, Mardi his older sister And Babe the youngest sister And their animals Lenin, Mao, and Stalin The three communist comrade cats Trotsky the Trotskian dog Two proletarian monkeys, Two revolutionary parrots, Fish, the worker hamster, Wild birds, and other creatures. 60 years ago This wild leftist only in Berkeley family Adopted me as one of their own They live on in my heart. |