Daughter Chicago Poems

It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all...

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Mr. Dresden, my name is Joshua Aaronson.

How can I help you Mr. Aaronson?  How did you find me?

My wife Chloe goes to your brother's...

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9/22/1983

I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy!
The lead car to the cemetery.
A stuffed bear, your Borsalino,
In the August, back window,fino!

You, in the hearse, a few feet behind..
Tears...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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  ~Who  Was She~


The little...

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"The Silkworm’s Birthday"





Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast 
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in...

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_____Daddy Saved These______

It has been many moons since my 
Father passed.
Then came that day, I unearthed 
these lovely treasures Daddy had 
saved.

My very first pair...

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She was an itsy-bitsy girl and had a teeny kitten.
One night Daddy came in, knowing his daughter was
smitten.
He was most angry with the kitten!
The father...

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Mommy, is 'snow' a four-letter word?
  No, darling, but 'shut-up' is
But mommy, 'shut-up' has six letters
  I'm so glad you're doing well in...

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My Faraway Angel is always with me,
I close my eyes, and there she will be.

Part of my heart in such a way,
A smile like sunshine,...

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More than 46 years ago in Evanston, C` Lee met a young lady            ...

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Trees by the lane 
By the old road, few cars use stand two trees
the oldest one is leaning on the bough of the young on
Mother...

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