Father Daughter Poems

I’ve been called an inequity spotter
(although some will just call me a “rotter”).
Names are biased for sons:
yours and mine — everyone’s.
I propose to make JohnSON — JohnDAUGHTER.
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Inheritance from My Father

It is with grateful heart I travel this way,
For the respects I wish to pay,
To my Daddy who lived his whole life with attitude,
But it is for those aspects of him that I feel the deepest gratitude,
His...Read More

He once owned the Taj Mahal 
And knew how to work the law. 
Before there was a call 
And the Speaker made moves to make him fall 

They used a term of impeach 
And this will allow the educator an...Read More

Author Dana Redricks
January 8, 2020

Lord thank you for delivering me
a little girl trapped
in me with the yearning to be free
She wanted to be released from
her past and boundage that tried
to hold her back
The enemy planted a seed of 
weeds who...Read More

He hugged me tight
Wrapping his arms around me as if
To protect me, or keep me 
There as long as possible 
The car door closed suddenly
Interrupting the brief moment
Between daughter and father
But now I realize that it wasn’t 
The car door...Read More

My wife needs a new wig for the ball
For hers you see will not do at all.
For she colored and cropped
Then finally chopped,
Til it now fits our daughter's toy doll....Read More

My dad, who died at 55,
Is etched inside my heart,
Despite the fact it's almost
Forty years we've been apart.

Today's his birthday; had he lived,
There'd be a Carvel cake.
(One year I baked a cake from scratch,
But that was a mistake.)

I conjure up...Read More

Why me father/daughter relationship
important to this papa

Fourteen and a half years
since death of mother (mine),
nary one iota of communication
in general and compassion

in particular while
she lived, now wears
heavy and yokes
mantle fostering tears

indirectly sabotaging rapport
with eldest daughter
futility doth arise uttering
feeble secular prayers,
cuz...Read More

(alternatively titled eldest daughter despises us)

Eden (beloved eldest daughter) icy
flat tone of voice spoke volumes,
when she talked with the missus and me
courtesy cellular telecommunications key
December twenty seventh
two thousand nineteen
unwavering listless dull verbalization see
I subsequently told spouse, she
thy super smart self...Read More

Dad, I wish your life could rewind
I'd re-write our script more kind! :)...Read More

Twas december twenty second 1996...
(when all thru house in 1148 Penn Valley
thee eldest scheming to sally
forth unlike her papa hood dilly dally
nothing to chauffeur himself 'cept tally
sheet scored with failure.)

Twenty three years ago
most significant event
within mein kampf,
father time thankfully lent
biologically...Read More

A love so deep
But distant,
Enough to keep the common man away...
As well as your daughter

Your need for love so strong
Yet not,
Content to dwell in the shadows
controlling everything in the light where the others live

A puppet master hiding in the rafters
Wooden...Read More

Her father was a gardener his shoes were never clean
They were always brown and dirty…which helped his thumbs stay green.

She remembers watching him with his plants…she remembers being amused
Sometimes all she saw of him was the bottom of his shoes.

He...Read More

The bench where we sat and talked is still there,
and when I am missing you I go sit to weep;
"take care of my dad, God," is my prayer,
for he has left for his eternal sleep.

______________________________
December 18, 2019


Poetry/Rhyme/Missing Father
Copyright Protected, ID...Read More

I have been fortunate to witness many forms of love in my life
sometimes I feel as if I’m living in a storybook
because, like the pages in a fairy tale,
love is everywhere I look.

Take the other day in a restaurant
Love was...Read More

What efforts appeal to his
need to be loved
She answered none
This to the surprise of
Those gathered
Even those in lesser
Standings have more
Appeal then he
His lessons of. Reasoning
Makes him conditioned
To appear wise
His lack of passion
Comes from his inability
To be wanted, only a foolish
Person...Read More

I treasure the memories of your guidance,
Your gentle advice, always aware of my feelings.
You took the place in my heart of my absent father.
You always said I was the daughter you never had 
but always longed for, and you were...Read More

Take death back
The doctor's objective
review
Argues and
life skills

Take death back
Death involves a loss
Essential treatment,
whatever price?
The ballad of life

Take death back
One last act
on one's existence
overwhelming
The vulnerable situation
always an uncertainty

Take death back
Life's rowing boat, without oars
Free entrance
Not today, not tomorrow
not this month
Life ...
-...Read More

She crawled into her father’s lap...her lips were quivering...
there were teardrops in her eyes
“Some kids say they don’t believe in Santa...
they say it’s all a pack of lies.”

She looked at him with innocent eyes...
that snowy Christmas Eve...
and asked him quite...Read More

I am dedicating this --hurray!-- to Donna Murray
Who says: "A book is a life, like one man is a life"
The work of her hands are bookbinding demands
The purpose is to revive -- keeping its spirit alive 
Sitting at her table,...Read More

Come Home

Please listen to me. 
You have not "done" anything, 
that I have not done before, 
or if you have, 
then we can still talk. 
You can teach me, 
what not to do. 

You can have the last word. 
You...Read More

When you’re present at the birth…when you hear your baby cry
when the doctor announces…Congratulations…she’s a girl!”
tears flow from your eyes.

When you finally take her home…when to the hospital you say goodbye
you are a little nervous…when you hear your baby cry.

You...Read More

I am nothing but a woman,
A fascinating object of intense desire,
Diligently pursued, captured, and possessed, 
And finally immured in my master’s palace;
A deeply branded slave and servant.

I am nothing but a woman,
Treading the path of my mothers and sisters,
Strictly bred...Read More

Ek was gevra om ietsie oor Pa te sê
Maar waar begin ek nou
Wanneer daar eintlik net een ding is wat ek nou wil doen
Om steeds my arms om Pa te vou

Maar nou is Pa weg
Na ‘n plek waar Pa tog...Read More

Abortionist 

Consent Not Granted!

I Am That I Am
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