Beach Mother Daughter Poems

I love you, teddy bear. 

Mischievous and carefree 
By Michelle Morris
05/03/2023

There are these pictures in my mind
Of when you were a little kid
Elation and giggles...

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Balanced and perfect!

Always standing up for me.

Teaching me manners. Oh, how I fussed!!

Having French braids every summer. 

My shorts and tops had to match.

Teaching me to...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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After laying, 
my mother to rest, 
in her bed of pine, 
how I detest, 
that she sleeps, 
so deep,
so peacefully,  
leaving me behind.

Her abuse...

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You remember her running to find the beach
And when an adventure was eating a peach
And nothing she wanted was out of reach

You remember her terrified...

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"My Beautiful Dreamer"


My Beautiful Dreamer
“thinks she goes unseen”, Her.
she’s a million miles away
lost in the Lilacs and
Chantilly Lace of 
her beautiful dream, her.

My Beautiful Dreamer
dreaming...

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I hit the wall today for the first time since  you've been gone, screaming to god what you did wrong.
I shouted as loud as...

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Each day I sit upon the same wind swept boulder
watching the sun as it sinks into the Western sky.
My sister, on the larger because she's...

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A ship controlled by multiple captains, a home by an extra head
her presence makes it void of comfort with an unkempt bed.

Supposedly one family but...

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DAUGHTERS

Opposites presented by Goddess
In talons of Eagle
         On wings of Dove
Equally loved

A torrent from a fierce black...

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