January Father Daughter Poems

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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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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Attitude with latitude

originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic

Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours...

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Canal channel calm
              Calm swan route rowed
     ...

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Unsteadily he walks down the linen aisle
On his right arm the pride and joy of his life,
Proud he is, you can see it in his...

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Kurt turned his white daddy in
  for going to Washington
January 6 at the President's request
  Kurt heeded the call, full of zeal and...

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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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~*~
       Nippy break of day
       Total unexpected loss
     ...

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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...

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By a wind-rippled lake where shoreline willows sway
We gathered to celebrate our Dad’s last birthday

Warm autumn shades in Jersey’s leaves cast us carefree
Then a snapshot...

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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

Before the days of Christmas,
I shopped everywhere.
I couldn't stand the music.
I couldn't stand the glare.
The thing that I most wanted
was to go out on...

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When she stepped up to hold my hand, pale faced,
something to tell me, I needed to know,
three words 'I love you' now had been replaced
with...

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Argh resolution between
     self and eldest
     dear daughter more remote,
now then locating

     a...

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As a certified, bona fide woman of a grown-up sixteen,
she light-stepped with grace thru the baroque castle.
She wanted to tell her Father of the déjà...

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In a day when mental illness 
was hidden behind a closed door,
A young girl lived but wished to die;
 she couldn't take it anymore.

No one...

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