Daughter Wars Poems

"The Christmas Wars"



Christmas is never stolen
the parent dresses a tree 
every year, 
tenderly,
like adorning 
a fragile child 

caught between 
the Christmas Wars

The Christmas of a
Ghost...

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Shut all thy sensuous doors: 
Eyes, ears, mouth in thy mortal town
Shut all doors, and draw blinds down,
For thou live now in a world of...

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When their daughter asks them about the Renaissance, 
they’ll tell her about Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’, Andreas Versailus and Nicholas Copernicus but I wish them...

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Mirror Mirror

Do not lie. I know that you want to. 
I know that you may need to.  
I am broken, and soon…
You will be...

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Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all...

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She and vehicles,
Adversaries forever,
No quarter given
And none asked on either side.
The metal beasts smell money,
Wound themselves to devour it.

It doesn't matter
How she tries to hide...

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