Introspection Father Daughter Poems

Dear ‘Prudence’
would have been my fate 
after the song
if he had his way
luckily that night in June
not a moment too late
nineteen eighty-six
my mother crowned me...

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Remembering my Dad
Walking home in the warm breeze
Wafting memories

As if that same wind
Had blown through our vacations
Places we traveled

When I was little
And we used to...

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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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I had to learn to be still - it was a hard discipline, for me.
Impatience is my curse, it’s the underbrush fuel of my anger.
Unanswered...

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Inheritance from My Father

It is with grateful heart I traverse this way,
For the respects I wish to pay,
To my Daddy who lived his whole life...

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She's collecting tattoos at a rapid pace.
How many is to many, it's hard to say.
Sometimes I think they're just a distant sign.
From a clouded spirit,...

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Fox glove tangos with the evening winds
My little Nicole had grown
What cradle doth she now lay without fatherly kiss?
How is my fairest one now turned...

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My father is not the biological father of my siblings
So I am the bridge, I am the link in the family
I, alone, carry his blood,...

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Outside My Window

I sit on Dad's heavenly bed as I pen this write
The mournful heart looks outside
The window which for the moment is mine
I view...

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LIFE IS A PLAY – JOURNAL XV

But there is a meadow
I would see in a dream 
With wild flowers rife
The most in a dream I’ve...

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Dee’s father bought a fancy, family sled 
to her amusement and joy
He shocked the town pulling this sled around
With his good, shiny Model T Ford

Memories...

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for Nolan

Morning, I tell my betta, Beau, 
how beautiful he is.  He fans out sideways 
turquoise, crimson and green for my 
inspection. It's introspection...

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Sasha

I remember when I held your hand
And told you about God,
You listened so attentively
And never thought it odd

I remember when I kissed your head
And watched...

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The Look On My Child’s Face…

Just yesterday I noticed a look of
 love on my child’s face.
This happened in a most  “ordinary place.”

It was...

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