My Morning Time Dove

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Maybe not the best thing I've ever written but the most emotional. I had to stop working on it after 20 minutes because I was crying so hard. Otherwise I'd still be trying to make this perfect to fit the perfection of the subject

On morning-time drives, my daughter and I, Would sing along songs which rarely were heard, That music was playing seems to defy, My recollection of photographs blurred; Vividly now, still I see Ava there, Rockin’ like Bono with snaggle-tooth grins, Smilin’ at daddy from her special chair, Laughter erupting as answers to questions; Yet, somewhere near where my health went astray, Were magical moments stolen from us, Now only silence do memories play, While tearful sonnets are written as thus; So to my daughter, I say with all love, Let’s sing again soon, my morning-time dove.

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Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 9/20/2016 2:17:00 AM

This touching poem made me tear up Phillip. It is tender and conveys the eternal love a father has for his daughter. I hope you give this to her. It is the best gift a daughter could receive! 7 ; )

Phillip Garcia
Date: 9/20/2016 2:48:00 AM

Thank you, Connie, you're always so sweet to me. I'd love to give this to her someday but that's a whole 'nother story (which I'm sure I'll tell publicly here at some point in a sonnet ) :)

Daniel Turner

Date: 9/19/2016 9:21:00 PM

This is sooo sweet, Phillip. I can see why it would make you emotional. It did me too. I used to do the same with my daughter and my son. They still sing those same songs. I'll have to save this one!

Phillip Garcia
Date: 9/19/2016 11:53:00 PM

Thanks Daniel. Nothing sets 16 hours of the ratrace up as tolerable quite like silly dances to sillier songs