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Premium Member Daddy
Daddy

Daddy, why did you go away?
Don't you know I wanted you to stay!

Daddy, when you left mom,
Don't you know you left me too?
Now all I...

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Categories: daddy, blue, dad, depression, father
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Tribute To Daddy
You were the oak in our family tree,
With roots that were strong and true,
Holding on so tenaciously
No ill wind could topple you.
We nestled under your...

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Categories: daddy, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: daddy, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: daddy, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Magic Beans
Our first awareness
      falling through time
      through blood-rain, pure white snow, green vegetation 
 ...

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Categories: daddy, adventure, chocolate, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Please
~PLEASE~
 
Please pick me up!
Never mind I'm gonna fall, anyways
 
Please show me how to tie my shoes and sing a song! 
Don't worry mommy,...

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Categories: daddy, absence, abuse, anger, cousin,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Father's Sacrifice
I loved you the first day
I saw those big brown eyes blinking,
taking in your first moments of life.
Not a tear nor a little scream,
you seemed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daddy, appreciation, dad, daughter,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Love Sleeps, Never Dies
An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...

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Categories: daddy, angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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Categories: daddy, miracle,
Form: Free verse
What Only Angles Hear
Daddy never did understand.
That violence doesnt bring comfort.
A lost soul seeking acceptance from a unwelcome hand.

She was silent no one ever knew.
The secrets behind her...

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Categories: daddy, angst, death, depression, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Teddy Bear-
My sweet little Teddy Bear...
Mommy gave 'YOU' to me
Now I never sleep alone at night
The comfort you gave when God's sunny eyes ran out of...

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Categories: daddy, abuse, boyfriend, childhood, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Return
A charlatan returns despite his earlier defeat.
After two years gone, he claims he owns a seat
But there is no throne for the jester who bears
His...

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Categories: daddy, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Visits from Heaven



                 Was it really you dad? Not merely just...

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Categories: daddy, dream, father daughter, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Longing For Father's Love
I am not a father
nor I am a mother
I am just a daughter
that is growing better...

Father, you have been away
I truly wish you have stayed
Hugging...

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Categories: daddy, absence, care, child, dad,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Father's Legacy
You grew up going from place to place.
Folk thought you wouldn't amount to a thing.
You were a wander til you heard love calling.
Your life changed...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daddy, father daughter, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things