Seasons Father Daughter Poems

Whenever did the waters change
And the moonlight cease to be enticing
And the cherry tree by the window
Not blossom enough

For you to have outspoken
All the kind...

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The icon of strength in selflessness
The symbol of divine leadership
The right path paved the guidance
The pillar of wisdom amidst storms 
The protector and provider in...

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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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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his...

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"S is for Silence"



Once Love lived in a heart
a storm called S
ripped it apart on a 
sunny blue sky day
tears fell like rain 
in a...

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February 4th, 1999 - two hundred
and fifty two months ago
Shana Aubrey Harris officially completed,
now ranks among status quo
lawfully, legally, legitimately in toto
twenty one orbitz around...

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 For My Daddy 


Quickly came months, disintegrating years to gone.
In that way, time did alter-sway my grieving sphere.
My initial crying mainspring long ago stopped
though,...

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Split family

My pain
within 
my heart 
wont die

I try
in vain
to be 
happy

The sun
shines the
rain falls 
seasons
changing

The bonds
broken
daughter 
hurting 
time lost

Memoir
happy
but sad
mind cries 
hearts tears
 
Soul longs...

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In the years between embraces and the months that stretched “I love yous” thin,
An attachment endured the harsh elements of a barren desert.
With needles as...

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Listen hear me out
Had to go in His presence of the throne
Not alone 
Surrounded by majestically
Spiritual trombones
Blowing announcing here she comes
Aisle ready thy Kingdom come
Jubilee...

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MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when...

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