Goodbye Father Daughter Poems

Every day I wake up,
And every day I remember
The way you left me with no warning
Fleeing like a dog off its leash
It was my 13th...

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I’ve been listening to your eyes
The way they smile the way they cry
Pulling for miles red heart’s insides

Little crows feet forming thin lines
Telling what tickle’s...

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ANGEL OF DEATH 

He went to check 
up on the cat 
tripped over a 
crooked vine table
tried to get up
smashed its circular
glass in half 
moon...

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He guides her hand from just beyond
With a ready black ink pen they share this bond
The words flow effortlessly as if not her own
Seems to...

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To my daughter who never listens.

Life is not as simple as a cliché.
It's not lullabies and butterflies.
Not all sounds are soothing,
not all flowers are faithful.
It's...

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This ones for you. John 

Cheers to the last straw! 
You drew it and smashed it.
You broke it and slashed it.
This is the end to...

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Alone in the night, with no one to hold,
A life she never chose, yet she's so bold.
Her mother left her, on the day of her...

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Grief is so unimaginable painful it cant be explained,
To lose someone you love so much is unfeigned,
Once grief comes knocking at your front door, 
Entering...

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You guide my hand from beyond
with a posed, black-inked pen.
The words flowed effortlessly
as if not my own.
They always seem 
to hesitate the longest
at the end...

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sad faces 
 final waves goodbye 
       nope, not at 
        ...

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Daddy's girl 
Sinks 
To Davy Jones' locker 
Of grief.
Dad's earth-shattering goodbye,
So sudden, cruel.
Suicide, no note.
She's too numb  
To feel the tsunami 
Of looming pain....

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I walk amidst the lonely path and cry
I will never see my dad since he died
Think, how I never said my last goodbye
Gazing up I...

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Theres a thin layer a fine line between me and Yau

like the moon and the skyline 

We’re intertwined- 

You’re not a ghost you’re just really...

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Father’s Day 2020

Father’s Day this year, unexpectedly has me in tears.
Not sure why,
Where did the time go, 2.5 years ago we said goodbye.

I can’t watch...

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Elegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch

. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .

She was the joy of my youth,
and now...

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