Teen Father Daughter Poems

Within this ink is a taste so bitter
Warn you though I am no quitter
I don't follow fake pomp and glitter
Find within me a devotion emitter
The...

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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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I’m in the kitchen at Lisa’s. Her little sister Leeza enters, her pale, freckled face redder than usual. “Liza is the bossiest sister..,” Leeza says,...

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As a child
You reminded me of Santa
With your jolly face and
Your big round tummy
The way you chuckled brought
Lots of laughter into my life
You had a...

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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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My morning pierces my awake with grief’s thrust -
hitting me anew with the truth that he is gone.

Rising, I stagger thru cloudy bruises of disbelief
that...

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Dear Shari Todd – written July 29, 2015

While rifling thru outdated writing, 
     which virtual thumbing
     wrought...

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Into Young Womanhood

this glorious role, sans
     helping beget and nurture thine first born
three day shy of Christmas 1996,
   ...

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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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When I was just a little girl, I stared into my mother’s
eyes, and asked with a serious look, "What is Love" Much to my
mother’s surprise,...

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O that beautiful day as a teen!
Our eyes met while the hearts danced lightly,
Like primrose blooms shying from the winds. 
We grew a little older,...

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Graffiti on the wall that you call yours for your communication;
Someone else paints it all over, different lines, zigzag, splodges, splurged, fiery captions  
Can...

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Ever since my parents bought me a Grundig TV for my room,   
And every week day unquestioned and without fail, 
I've watched the...

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“Me”
Some days I feel lonely,
Some days I just wanna leave.
Some days are harmful.
I hate this world I live in.
The bully’s that call me “Horse Teeth”
“Ugly”....

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If I Could Have Gotten Your Embryo
Before You Were Born
I Would Have Sheltered You Safely
and Protected Your Form ...

I'd Have Put You In My Womb
&...

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