Sympathy Father Daughter Poems

My first enemy was one I should have loved
He claimed that he loved me but I suppose not enough
He carved the gaps in all my...

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Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top...

spry buck analogous to energizing bunny 
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.

Home on the range 
cacophony quite absurd
PlayBoy Bunny herd
and felt ingratiatingly...

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He went to war each morn
Armed with thermos and lunch pail
Gearldine wasn’t his firstborn
As a girl – just a tomboy with a pigtail

He knew her...

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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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Come with me, maybe you will see
Go away and stay burrowed in your own pain
Listen to my words, maybe ive got something.to.say
Barrowed time, spend all.of...

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As I lye awake and think of you
my heart always feels so blue.

I try my best to move on, but it's hard to do 
since...

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It was a dry, dusty day when I saw the wheelbarrow, with long handles made of dark wood. 
The wheel is struggling as it carries...

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The signs started in December
When she started waking up in tears each night
She was a normal girl with dark brown hair and darker brown eyes
She...

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