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2009-03-11T21:42:00.006-04:00

Friendship Poetry Gems from Family Friend Poems

Random Introductions

2009-03-11T18:09:00.009-04:00

Types of Poems from Family Friend Poems

Valentines Day

2009-02-15T10:48:00.005-05:00

Poems For Valentines Day

Romance is in the air. Chocolate hearts, roses, and greeting cards are everywhere. Going the extra mile to be creative shows that you really care. True romance are words from your heart.

Use Links to Show You Care

2008-07-31T00:39:00.007-04:00

This morning I received an email from my Google Calender informing me to post a new blog post. So this week why not focus on Google and Family Friend Poems. We have a bit of a relationship. We serve their ads on some of our pages, this blog post is actually being written using Google Blogger, and today 60% of our visitors were introduced to us through Google Search, a fact I know thanks to Google Analytics.

A recent article on the Official Google Webmaster Blog, about Duplicate Content caught my attention.

You see we have an issue on this website. Visitors are posting content from our website on their personal profile pages on MySpace and other social networking sites. This can create problems for us because then Google and other search engines don't know whose content it is. This means they don't know which page to show in the search results. Your MySpace page or the original FamilyFriendPoems.com page.

Here is an example from our introduction to Friend Forever Poems, the introduction was written by Shlomo, one our editors and a talented writer. A rather unique phrase from this short pharagraph is "How is it that people can talk so casually about a concept that we cannot even wrap our minds around" At first, when I search for it on Google there are 3 results Now click on repeat the search with the omitted results included and what do you know 76 Results!

Please enjoy our content, just don't post it on the your Profile or Blog. Instead place a link to your favorite pages on FamilyFriendPoems.com on your Profile Page. There are tools, such as Gigya, Add This and other features throughout our website to help you do just that.

For more discussion on this topic please visit the FFP Poetry Forums Marketing your Poetry - Unintentional Marketing and Plagiarism. Is it wrong?

Publish Your Poetry - What does it Take

2008-07-24T02:39:00.003-04:00

The FFP Poetry Forum is sporting a different look with three new moderators and a new forum called, "Getting Your Poems Published".

Ted, one of our brand new Moderators, whose enthusiasm has lit a spark in the Forums of late, has volunteered to lead this new forum.

To jump start the new forum, Ted has contributed Eight articles packed with information, resources and interesting tidbits from his own forays into the always fascinating world of Poetry Publishing.

Here's a sneak peak at What's in a Title?

What's in a title? Sometimes everything. ..... If a title sparks the editor's interest, he/she will likely read your poem, and that is the single most important step toward getting published (except for mailing the poem to the editor in the first place!). Stay true to the body content of your poem, but do take the time to invent a dramatic and eyecatching title. This will pay off for you, big time!....

And from Personal Touch

I do not care how young or old you may be, nor whether you have studied the masters or not - if you have a poetic nature, you can get your poems published. Please give me your comments and suggestions about what we have covered in this article. If you find something which needs answering, please ask. You have read this far. The obvious next step is to get you published!

Well.... go ahead....comments and suggest.

FFP Poetry Forums

2008-07-15T01:00:00.001-04:00

The FFP Poetry Forums is back up and running at full speed! After a frustrating month of June, the Website and Forum are back up. In addition we have moved to our very own Dedicated Server and are now able to add many new and exciting features to both the website and forum. Stop by the forum and take a look!

On the top right of each page, you can now subscribe to a RSS feed of all the latest posts on the forum. Next to it you can subscribe to receive once a day a digest of all posts via email. This is different then regular subscriptions on the forum which will now be limited to subscriptions to topics only (see the FAQ: Topic Wide Subscription for more on that).

If you are subscribed to the forum, and receiving emails in your spam box, (Especially for Yahoo Email Users) please mark them as Not Spam. If you no longer wish to subscribe just visit the Manage your subscriptions page. Please do not mark emails from us as spam. Contact us if you are receiving unwanted emails.

Also, private messaging is now enabled on the forum. Enjoy and please report any concerns.
Cheers! Don,
Forum Admin

P.S.
If you haven't visited the forum recently, we have had hundreds of new comments added. Please stop by to read what our members though of your poetry.

Forum Status

2008-06-25T11:13:00.001-04:00

Please bear with us as we move to our own Dedicated Server, we will then get our Forum back up and running.

I know that many member of the forum have been worried about poems they posted and I just want to reassure you that your work is in our database and it will be put back up as soon as we move the website to a dedicated web server.

I hope to have this done by the beginning of July.

Website is back up

2008-06-19T11:37:00.004-04:00

Please bear with us as we wade through the mess and get our website back up and running. This morning our web host has put the website back up. I hope they will not take us a down again.

I am honestly not sure why we they took us down. I have received many different reasons. I suspect the real reason is we are a victim of our own success and our web hosting company was unwilling to host us because we were using up too much of their resources.

I have therefore removed many features until we can move the website to a dedicated web server. The most obvious is that the forum is not running.

I know that many member of the forum have been worried about poems they posted and I just want to reassure you that your work is in our database and it will be put back up as soon as it is safe to do so.

I am truly sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. I am working hard to get us back and running. As I have more information I will post it here.

Thank you for your patience.

Fathers Day 2008

2008-06-03T01:11:00.004-04:00

Well it's June, so what is exciting in June, you ask? Fathers Day, of course. Fathers Day is Sunday, June 15th and with that in mind here are some absolutely essential links for filling all your Fathers Day Poetry needs.

We have your standard Fathers Day Poems of course, but, the tour has just begun. You see, here at Family Friend Poems, one day for Dad just isn't enough, we talk about Fathers the whole year.

Are you in the market for a really special Dad, don't fret, we have a section just for you. Head on over to our Father Child Poems pages for some real tear jerkers, then check out our Best Father Poems .

Are you still here? What is it that you fancy? Are you a Wife looking for a bit of poetry for your Husband? Or is it your Grandfather whom you wish to toast on his special day?

We hope you enjoy our fine selection and please, stop by and visit again.

Friendship from Family Friend Poems

2008-05-14T22:55:00.010-04:00

Our website has not been performing as well as it should. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you do get a message saying "Service Unavailable", please refresh your browser. We are working with our web host to resolve the issue.

Please accept this Friendship Gift to share with your friends.
Thank You For Being My Friend

Friendship Poems
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A Special Gift for your Special Mother

2008-05-11T15:26:00.003-04:00

Mothers Day is today!

If you have not yet purchased a gift for mom perhaps you had better get a move on. Or you could write a Mothers Day Poems.

What better gift for your mother then a gift straight from your heart. A gift which took you time to write. A creation of your own, designed specifically for your mother.

So check out our Mother Poems for inspiration and start writing your own unique poem for your own special mother.

A Mothers Day gift that will not be forgotten!

Mothers Day

2008-04-24T11:07:00.011-04:00

Here at Family Friend Poems, Mothers day is always a big deal. Our preparations for the holiday include sprucing up the website for the influx of expected guests, as well as making sure that all of our Poetry suitable for Mothers Day is easily accessible.

As you browse our website you will find links to suitable Mothers Day sections posted liberally throughout the site. Some highlights include Mothers Day Poems, as well as Mother Poems, Poems between Mothers and Children, Mother Daughter Poems, Poetry between Husbands and Wives, Grandmother Poems, and even some Great Grandmother Poems.

Please make use of our Poems Search Box for more detailed searches.

As a reminder, all Poems posted on Family Friend Poems are copyright and belong to their respective Authors. Please only use the poetry here as inspiration for your own unique Poem for your Mother and don't plagiarize.

About our Editor

2008-04-13T03:46:00.005-04:00

Marcy has a bachelor's in psychology from Towson University , and an MSW from University of Maryland, School of Social Work . She currently splits her time between taking care of her one year old son, and editing poetry. She enjoys reading and writing poetry as a hobby, and has been Editor of Family Friend Poems for about a year.

When asked what she thinks makes a good poem, she replied with one of her favorite quotes about poetry. "A poem must not mean, but be". "A poem is a work of art", she explained, "Every element of the poem must work to create an image".

Marcy feels privileged to have a job in which she can enjoy poetry from some of the worlds up and coming poets. She thanks these poets for the stellar work that she has been privileged to enjoy.

New Forum for Young Teens

2008-04-02T19:44:00.014-04:00

Are you between 12 and 15 years old? Do you have concerns about being a garbage truck?

Well we are happy to introduce a new Forum for Young Teens to share your poetry, feelings about garbage trucks and whatever else is on your mind.

The forum moderator is Miccy, an enthusiastic and prolific writer whose gusto and spirit have contributed quite a lot to our Poetry Forums of late.

Miccy is 13 and lists her hobbies as poetry and collecting weird things.

Visit the Poetry Forums and see for yourself.

Articles on Poetry

2008-03-20T03:50:00.004-04:00

We are proud to present a brand new section of Family Friend Poems, which we have called Articles on Poetry. Please stop by and visit. The articles are about Elements of Poetry and Defining Poetry.

To those of you who have previously visited our Poetry Forums, you will no doubt recognize the Author of the 2 articles, Mr. Richard Deets as Richard.

Richard is a frequent contributor on our Poetry Forums. He regularly supplies his insight, tips and other bits of Poetic wisdom with those who post their poetry on the Forums.

We at Family Friend Poems, would like to thank Richard for everything he has done for the Poetry Forums.

Men at Work

2008-03-10T02:00:00.003-04:00

Sorry if things seem a bit messy today.
We are working on putting up ads again with minimal impact on the time it takes the webpages to load.
This involves putting all the code from outside sources on the bottom of the page so that the poetry can load first.
Then we have to stick the ads in their places. not an easy task, at least for me.

So enjoy your visit, and try not to get in our way and we will do our best to stay out of yours.

No Ad Day(s)

2008-03-07T05:41:00.009-05:00

You may have noticed that we only have 1 ad per page today.

Problem:
1) Extremely low Average Page Views per visitor and getting worse
2) Slow Page Loading Time

Experiment: How does the extra code and external JavaScript that is used to display ads on our website relate to Average Page views per Visitor

Hypothesis:
1) All the extra code and JavaScript that is used to display ads on our website slows down page load time
2) Ads are annoying.
more ads - Slow page load - go find another website
less ads - pleasant experience - stay longer - read more poems
(and possibly visit again - share our website with friends - even more visitors)

The amazing results:
Mon , March 3, 2008 - 6.39 Pages per visitor
Tues, March 4, 2008 - 6.41 Pages per visitor
Wend, March 5, 2008 - 6.49 Pages per visitor
Thur, March 6, 2008 - 11.08 Pages per visitor
Fri , March 7, 2008 - 12.07 Pages per visitor

That is double the page views per visitors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Solution
What do you suggest?

Our Mission

2008-02-29T04:19:00.001-05:00

The subject of Family and Friends has inspired many a poet to take up a pen and paper and create poetry.

Our mission at FamilyFriendPoems.com is to showcase some of the best poems about the subjects of family and friends. These poems were written by ordinary Americans like you. The life circumstances, relationships, and emotions which they write about express feelings which we all can share.

The types of poems have no limit, but they all have one thing in common; the poets have chosen to give us, through sincere words, a glimpse into their life, and in the process have created a works of art, called poetry.

Post your poem on the Forum Please

2008-02-20T13:53:00.003-05:00

Due to a backlog of poems which still need to be approved by our editor, we request that you post your poems on our forums instead of submitting them, until we catch up. Thank You!

Please go ahead and post on the Poetry Forum where you will be able to receive immediate feedback from other forum members.

Take this oppurtunity to visit our newest forum WOMEN OF THE WORLD

Thanks,
Don

Best Poem for first half of February

2008-02-17T14:09:00.003-05:00

Prayer Poem
A mother explains Heaven to her dying son. Do not miss this one, it is truly beautiful.
TO OUR ELLIS
© Pamela A. Snow

To Our Ellis

How does a loving mother, explain
Heaven to her dying child?
Please give me the words, O Lord, and
let me say them with a smile...
There is a place called Heaven, Son,
beyond the skies above,
It is the place where GOD is watching,
His Heart so full of Love.
He watches all His children, Son,
He watches you and me,
He wants to know we love Him, and
hopes that we will be...
Always strong and healthy, always
kind and free!
But, sometimes, things do happen, Son,
and sickness takes a hold,
It might be something serious, it
might be just a cold.
GOD sends His special angels,
to watch over us and pray,
And, by our side they linger, they
are never far away.
They lift us up on angels' wings when
we are all too weak,
And, oh!, they pray so softly, Son,
with gentle whispers do they speak.
So, have no fear, my darling, should
GOD come to take you Home,
For it is up there in that Heaven,
Son, where you will run and laugh
and roam!
You will hear that angel choir rejoice
in praises to the LORD,
And, my darling precious child, you
never will be sick, again...
No, never, anymore!!
But, most of all, you will meet the
King, our Saviour, your Best Friend,
oh my!,
If I could see him take your hand, I
know that I would cry!!
You have fought so long, you gave your
all..GOD says it's time to rest,
We will always love and miss you, Ellis,
but GOD...He knows what's best!

Dedicated to the Memory of 7 yr old, Ellis Mayfield, of Simpsonville, SC, who fought a 1 1/2year battle with an inoperable brain tumor. He received the
SC Governor's Outstanding Leadership and
Citizenship Award for his unfailing bravery and courage...a little boy who
kept laughing and loving... 'til the very end.

Gigya - A social Link Tool

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Rate this poem Children's Poems - Wonders Never Cease by Jacqueline M. Sinkes on FamilyFriendPoems.com.>

Welcome!

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We hope you enjoy our collection of fine poems. Each one has been scrutinized and inspected with devotion and passion. Once chosen the poem is prepared lovingly for publication. Grammar and spelling mistakes are not tolerated, certainly not by our clientele.

Now, the poem must be categorized. Oh! What a task! Which subcategory to assign it? This one is the clear choice, yet, already, so many poems. We must save this lovely poem from a literary casualty, its fate must not be to vanish among the crowd, never to beguile, mesmerize and enthrall. We must find a subcategory small enough for it to sparkle and charm.

A short description must be written. Our consumers are young bursting with zeal, no time to waste; we must help them find their poem, the one they are searching for, the poem that will relieve the pain of a heart wronged, of what wrong you ask, but does it matter, this poem will heal as it has healed before and as it will heal again, for this is poetry. For only words unfettered by regulations can be the vessel to hold emotions, so many emotions, yet so few words. Oh! Poetry!

From The Editor

2008-01-18T12:45:00.001-05:00

Dear Readers & Writers,
When Don and I started “Family Friend Poems” in 2006, we never dreamed that we would achieve the popularity that we have today. Our vision was to create a place for poets to share their work with other writers. We wanted to build a website that was user friendly while at the same time maintain high standards that ensured that only quality work would be displayed on the site. We have accomplished this by making available a simple form for submitting poetry and allowing only the finest poetry to be posted.
To all those who have contributed to our growing archive of poetry and those who come to read these masterpieces, Don and I say thank you, for without you Family Friend Poems would not exist. Thanks for coming and enjoy your stay. Peace out, and have a nice day.

Shlomo,
Editor

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