Daughter Quintain (English) Poems

I marvel how touch touches deepest chord, 
That rest of senses scarce can ever match, 
Time heals old wounds, touch stays on for long stored,...

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My delight at the day's summit
My strength when despair looms
My happiness in every season
My daughter, my life 

The morning sun's gentle rise 
The rainbow midday's...

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Whispers tale of witches on festive October,
Mother's ninety first birthday and daughter in-law.
Our 20th Wedding anniversary and sober.
Halloween dressed as Ed Gein with a chain...

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The years have passed since your last Mother's Day;
       to date, they make up fifty-two long years.
With each, the...

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I barely knew the grandma on my father’s side,
but Grandma Owens I knew fairly well.
She was my mother’s mother; she took great pride
in cooking us...

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Christmas is almost here,                                          ...

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She walked the labyrinth with her head bowed down 
and thought of Christ with His thorny encrusted crown
Each rock was interlinked, attached to a circular...

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Face framed ornate, or curl corner blu tacked up
Childhood fanciful daring must softly be contained
Dispicable hovers inside cherub cheeked adorable 
Challenge for enamoured to create...

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The dulcet larks in oak trees bring a smile
On cue, here comes the sun melting the grey
I walk you down the garland-bordered aisle
So Mom and...

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Rustling blades of ruby float on my front lawn,
        gazebo flooded with gold and chartreuse leaves-
I sit at...

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I love nature at dawn in the forest green,
or in Autumn colors that reflect in the blue water;
and the birds sing sweet rhapsodies unseen,
I...

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My words depart as I try 
To explain these happenings
Mistrust has poke its ugly head
And is dragging my family apart
Husband against wife
Mother against daughter
Brother against...

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Every Sunday afternoon we’d go to my grandparent’s home,
those were the trips I’ll never forget with my siblings and I-
My grandpa would greet us with...

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YESTERDAY
Tears dripping down as I watch my baby suffer in silence,
for this afflicted disease has no understood known cure-
I can handle family disputes, madness and...

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There lies a hope within my womanly maternal being,
   A wish that my sweet Ella grows...

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