poems about parents

"Woman with Kite" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni describes a moment when a mother forgets about her children, while "Grape Sherbet" by Rita Dove describes a father's creation that a child does not want to forget.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Where I'm From, Funny in Farsi, Kaffir Boy, Pick One, If You Are What You Eat, Persepolis, poems about parents, Hunger of Memory, Thanksgiving: A Personal History, Time to Assert American Values, Rough Justice, On Civil Disobedience, On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, On Women's Right to Vote, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, School's Out for Summer, One Word of Truth, Hope, Despair, and Memory
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  1. querulous
    habitually complaining
    Meadow of crabgrass, faded dandelions,
    querulous child-voices.
  2. disgruntled
    in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
    She takes
    from her son's disgruntled hands the spool
    of a kite that will not fly.
  3. translucent
    allowing light to pass through diffusely
    Feels the kite,
    translucent purple square
  4. resistant
    disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
    rise in a resistant arc
  5. unravel
    become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers of
    She laughs like wild water, shaking
    her braids loose, she laughs
    like a fire, the spool a blur
    between her hands,
    the string unraveling all the way
  6. resemble
    be similar or bear a likeness to
    The recipe's
    a secret, and he fights
    a smile, his cap turned up
    so the bib resembles a duck.
  7. sherbet
    a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar
    Each dollop
    of sherbet, later,
    is a miracle,
    like salt on a melon that makes it sweeter.
  8. lavender
    a pale purple color
    It's just how we imagined lavender
    would taste.
  9. refusal
    a message declining to accept something that is offered
    The diabetic grandmother
    stares from the porch, a torch
    of pure refusal.
  10. bother
    take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
    Now I see why
    you bothered,
    father.
Created on Fri Oct 10 23:26:22 EDT 2014 (updated Mon Oct 13 15:07:31 EDT 2014)

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