Daughter Imagery Poems

I bring you flowers, homemade meals, meds, herbal tea
I hope Our Lady of Grace will smile on thee :-)...

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I was a bed and mattress tester, a dream job like that of a yellow moon.
I tested the comfort of beds, pillows, etc., for night...

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"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed...

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Happiness is the whirl of lyrical runes,
voicing of raging monstrous stories in loons.

Happiness is the rough silence of the heart,
that cries in loneliness of love...

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"Clouds
Are so gorgeous
Just as clouds--
They border the edge of heaven
In great, rolling, billowy puffs...
Or they float
In little trailing wisps
Across the sky...
Why do poets try
To liken...

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My daughter who was then, just about seven.
The sun had just settled softlty in the Pacific.
We were in Ghiradelli Square, a joyful place,as is heaven.
Into...

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The greatest thing she gave to me
Was a hug
I'm I so love her
Her best quality is the God in her
She bested my heart
Her sweet is...

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Ayla at Two

With a fistful of raisins and
Chocolate-flavored goatee,
Your favorite Dora tee shirt
Splotched red from your spaghetti lunch,
We sit on the floor together as
You climb...

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he'd remember my name 
he'd say it over and over again 
following me to uncharted places 
he'd face my haunting demons 
my triumph's my victories...

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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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She said to her daughter,”
Don’t ever visit 
Some wizards 
For love charms.
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Because you
Are the best
Love mesmerism
And magnetism
In your bad room.”

May 12, 2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
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above my Father’s bed,
shone a mother of pearl cross,
faithful, to his end.


4/11/2023



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Wrap me in your starry darkness. Let me forget the pain.

The moon? Please be my encompassing, flannel blanket. 

Only the sound of my cat’s breath,...

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