Daughter Verse Poems

Energy 
We were in the upper room
Energy 
Mother's child 
In communication
He supplanted placing mine spiritual seed planting in the heavens
Me the placed seed
Mother's child 

Desending...

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 as a mother toughening
 her child so her soul shall come to be in comforting
 as her strength and honor is your clothing
 so...

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After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major...

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The widow's eyelids of the house gradually close,
Over the empty rooms, where love once wove the velvet of longing.
My wife has dissolved into the echo...

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This happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.

Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of...

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Mother of us all 
Powerhouse of all life 
Goddess of the gods 
She is the Bird of birds 
The Beast of beasts 
The Fish of...

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It wasn’t the life she wanted.
This life drained the light from her eyes,
Turning them to deep gray circles,
Her voice lost its tone,
She lost herself.
Mothering was...

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baby elephants stay with their mothers their whole lives
they follow them for miles, 
hiding in the maternal shade 
of large, floppy ears,
perfect for listening to...

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Nervous I sat,
waiting to be called.
I wasn’t sure what it was he said,
but it meant a lot to me.
Then I realized,
he was not talking to...

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I am a loser

Why?
Why?

Why are you killing me?
Why?

Emma
Why?

You are rich
I am poor

Leave me alone
Leave me alone

Love your father
Love your father

He has money
He has money

Emma
Emma

Understand your...

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The folly of a young man
Lost opportunities, lost moments

I have such a Beautiful Daughter, her name is Gail.
As her father, I was not there, miserably...

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 if i was enough.....    
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"The Pages"

Missing all those years
like a page you could turn, 
a book you could throw casually aside, 
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at...

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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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"Resurrection"

When the best Mother cracks
the yolk will always rise again 
brightly shining unpoached in Blue Sky

The only way to the Daughter
is through the Mother
this is...

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