Daughter Home Poems

Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep....

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Homer translations

Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles....

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When I met the tall and amiable Vietnam War veteran,
my shyness showed,
yet, my throat dried and tightened when he softly
spoke the words, "The war never...

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We hadn’t visited for a while.
I looked forward to seeing her smile.
We came as often as we could.
Probably not as often as we should.

Mom was...

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My amorphous feelings clamber up the walls as I take a last look, 
then turning my head against my so-called “home” in the society 
whilst...

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I walked inside my burning home,
Gave him a second chance. 
Where even the welcoming doormat now, 
frowned upon my glance.
Broken glass, a shattered sea,
Hopes and...

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** SCENES FROM HOME **

The curtain wafts on an open-window’s breezing air, like liquid 
Blue in the room, bringing beauty with magic’s tracing

The woman with...

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In the  Sun gold land of grass
Lambs and sheep therest they graze
Lucy wandered first in lanes
Then she in the meadow gazed

Wherest children ran and...

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The festive furious festival of
Fifteen and fourteen year olds
Had functionally formed the
Teenage takeover brigade. 
The boy and girl gladiators they
Were everywhere. And DJ had 
His...

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In youth, our lives were spared,
Yet living felt as if we weren't there.
"Don't wear that, don't do this," they'd say,
Restrictions binding us day by day.
"Good...

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This ones for you. John 

Cheers to the last straw! 
You drew it and smashed it.
You broke it and slashed it.
This is the end to...

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On crossing teenage and entering manhood,
We wished our son should find a loving wife.
Someone who will accept him as he is,
Who will bring joy and...

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Nest

It's tough to imagine
The chair where you sit
Vacant and cold
Where we used to chit
And chat in the shallows;
Dive deep in the world
Where ideas, memories
And hopes...

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Our apartment has one bedroom
And 900 feet of space,
But that is where our festive meal,
This year, was taking place.

As we cleaned and cooked, preparing
For the...

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My frustratingly obstinate hubby 
Drives me crazy
Always loudly fixing the unfixable 
Without any success.
He kept on tinkering stubbornly 
Under the kitchen sink
Despite my fervent plea...

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