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.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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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 ; )
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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 ) :)
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!
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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
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