History Father Daughter Poems

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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"Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one."

Whoever wrote this jump-rope song
About Lizzie...

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she crossed my threshold and went to his house,
my only daughter, wed and his dear spouse,
a girl once, a beautiful woman now,
history is witness to...

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It was the biggest blizzard in Colorado’s history.
Roads were closed.
Guests were texting their apologies.
Samantha made it, but her wedding dress did not.

Her mother had been...

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There once lived a man, abhorrent and cruel,
With family he resided, high up on the moor. 
He yet drew breath, a misfortune unbeknownst,
To those in...

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Why in a gas oven, dear Sylvia,
     did you stick your pretty, middle-class head?
Was the life of upper suburbia
  ...

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They Gave the Verdict Today.
They Gave Us 27 Million, but that Can Never Bring You Back.
I Will Never Hear Your Voice, See Your Smile, or...

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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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Muhammad’s daughter danced through the night,
skirts smoothly swirling with her moving.
Cool colors coalescing under moonlight,
iridescent eyes sweetly soothing.

Many who sought her had pedigree.
All whom Prophet...

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Epitaph for My Father, an Everyman

(Written with John Hughes in mind, 
      as he will understand)

One night in particular, I...

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I wish I was back there, winter’s chill gone
with the sun and my coconut curry 
soup. Breathing bready smells, gazing down on
the Dogwood trees on...

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‘I wish for his head, on a silver platter’
Mother whispered to daughter
‘Go dance my love, grant me the golden trophy’

‘I love you, mother,’ confidently
She took...

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Immigrant of past he took to the soil like a neophyte soldier 
protecting each tomato and basil plant with his bare hands 
he showed no...

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this I dedicate to you Daddy
Billy Joe Scott
04/10/1958-
02/20/2020



The eyes I've seen 
My entire life
Are smiling back at me
The laugh I've dreamt
Is contagious
As I knew it...

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...They sent a copy of an old tin-type,
a picture of Milton and his bride,
one look at it and I knew the whole truth,
Small Doe in...

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