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Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy

Tags: family, love, memories, nostalgia

Child by Sylvia Plath

Tags: family, futility, yearning

The Christmas Life by Wendy Cope

Tags: family, nostalgia

Daddy by Sylvia Plath

Tags: family, loss, relationships

Digging by Seamus Heaney

Tags: family, memories, words, work

Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes

Tags: childhood, family, nature

Poem by Simon Armitage

Tags: family, judgement

This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin

(Contains very strong language)

Tags: family, nostalgia, tradition

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