War Father Daughter Poems

She was five when she was set down for a talk. Don't walk alone in the dark, keys between your knuckles, don't let them take...

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Buried so long in rules and obligations
To the earth, the roots have worked. 

Every time a raindrop falls on a petal,
It finally finds the earth
But...

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* This is about a scene from Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" *

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Owakuhona-oru!
The name given to me by my father,
Meaning,"if at all I go through this!"
It was during the November famine,
Of the late 1999 that I was...

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A rainbow stallion
hailed, as if a cab.
I laid a hundred bucks
under his leather saddle.
I stepped into the stirrups,
then whipped onto
his primeval back.
I’d been expecting him.
An...

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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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Act Eight, Chapter One. Part Two
                Part of a grander...

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Act Eight, Chapter One. Part Three
                Part of a grander...

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While sitting in the park one day, my beagle lying near, a little girl came strolling up - I’d say ‘bout four years old -...

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I'm very lucky...writing poetry soothes my soul -


Rhonda was the only child of Ron and Debby Baker. 
Debby was a widow.  It was 1952…
And...

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"Exegesis"



At 7 he was 
thrown to the wolves

Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets 
kept in the abbey

he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod

First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with...

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Epitaph for My Father, an Everyman

(Written with John Hughes in mind, 
      as he will understand)

One night in particular, I...

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I wish I was back there, winter’s chill gone
with the sun and my coconut curry 
soup. Breathing bready smells, gazing down on
the Dogwood trees on...

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She turned ten;wasn't there
In love and war,all is fair
Father and daughter apart
Now off to a new start

She turned twenty, not present, if I say
Only an...

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Father.
How could you prepare me for war
so gently,
as if teaching how flowers should be picked?...

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