Daughter Watching Poems

This true story must be told,                                       ...

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I know it is my wedding day
but I need to study the sharks a bit longer
Her mother left her then.
Her sister kept harping for a...

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I was talking to a friend, in my back yard
she notice something she spied
up in the northern skies
a pair of two-red Cardinals
she replied to me...

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I’m watching from a distance
As my mom loses her mind
My feet cemented to the ground,
I won’t get there in time. 
Her piercing screams and cries
Reverberate...

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Today you were on my mind
But over the years I’ve come to find
No matter how much time passes by
Still there’s time I can’t help but...

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Don't you ever think I'm not always there with you , I hear every word you say and see everything you do..
I know it must...

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Watching Homer struggle
to explain how a god wounded by a mortal
cannot die but may thereafter live with minor pain

and the humor when that god
complains to...

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I’m watching God watch me, while the devil keeps enticing my soul, waiting 4 it 2 get weak, while his daughter lays beside my soul,...

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A pretty girl in pleated dress of red,
with collar laced in white beneath her throat
and matching bow upon her small blonde head,
is glancing round the...

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Do you live in a Palace, little girl?
A crystal mountain's majesty
Where prismed lights of pink and blue
In butterfly profusion play...

Do you have rainbow walkways, little...

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I watched

I watched when I was younger, a woman lose her life

To a man, to a rock, to a knot, and never become a wife.

I...

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Three people on the sofa, 
Watching a film.

Daughter (28)
“I don’t go much for him myself …”

Mum (59)
“You don’t??
What’s up with you???”

Daughter’s partner (40)
“hngh, hngh, hngh!”



15...

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for my children

What is life but a rite of passage, an epigrammatic trial, 
A transient state, a walk through the trees, 
A stroll for a...

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