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Ski*Chick
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since 2001-01-13

Posts 141
Fitchburg, Mass, Usa

0 posted 2001-03-24 03:16 PM

I'm wishing that I could of said good bye to you
I'd tell you these

That I enjoyed being your daughter
I enjoyed when we'd go to the mall
laughing eatting out when mom went to church
I think of so many things that I wanted to say
like "I love you dad"
cause you may not know but you were my best friend
you understood me always

Now people don't understand me as well
they think I'm not ready to graduate
I tell them just because I'm in a wheelchair
that's not right dad why don't they see past
my wheelchair?

I want to cry sometimes
my boyfriend tells me if I'm going to jump
he'll be the one holding me forever
I say your really sweet
I love him a lot

He reminds me of you
his words inspire me
he makes me feel loved again
I don't understand why you left though

In the spring time when the snow leaves
I'll be at your grave site wishing you well
giving you poems gold medals that I might win
telling you that I love you

On fathers day I'll let off a ballon
that says "happy fathers day"
and in that ballon will be a note
hoping when it pops you'll read it

In the summer time when mom goes to Finland
I'll be going to leadership camp for student council
Suvi and I will be fine with you watching us
I'll be happy thats it's summer

When I go swimming
I'll see your face in the water
I'll smile at your face
jump in the pool and laugh.

I love you dad
Love always,

~*~Minna~*~

Allan Riverwood

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since 2001-01-04

Posts 3502
Winnipeg

1 posted 2001-03-24 03:23 PM

This is so beautiful, Minna. Truly.
You touch my heart with every poem you write. Your love for your father is something so admirable and touching that it brings me near tears.
You are a strong woman for what you endure, and a very skilled poet. Your father is proud of you, I promise.

I think the last stanza was very creative. "I'll see your face in the water, I'll smile at your face, jump in the pool and laugh." What I got from this was that you see your father in your own reflection, and he is a part of you. So you jump in the pool and laugh, because your father was a wonderful person, and you resemble him so much.

This is a magnificent window into your soul, Minna. I think it is one of your best, so I'm putting it into my personal library.
Maybe I'll see you around.

~Allan

If I had your eyes, I'd be blind. For I can only see out of my own. ~~Carly Van Dort

Allan Riverwood

Member Elite

since 2001-01-04

Posts 3502
Winnipeg

2 posted 2001-03-24 03:25 PM

I keep forgetting to hit the button.
I need brain surgery!

Elvenblood
Member

since 2001-02-17

Posts 409
Maine, USA

3 posted 2001-03-24 04:42 PM

Awww, that's so SWEEEEEEET!!! I love it, thank you thank you thank you! for posting this!! Its def going into my library!

"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not." ~RFK

LoveBug

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since 2000-01-08

Posts 4697

4 posted 2001-03-24 05:33 PM

This is a beautiful description of the relationship you share with your father... a relationship that can never die. Thanks for sharing.

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel."-Machiavelli

Fading Away

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since 2001-03-14

Posts 3131
Lynchburg, Virginia

5 posted 2001-03-24 08:15 PM

This is beautiful, Minna. Thank you so much for sharing. It's poems like these that make Passions so special! Great job.

--Marie

I never thought that you would ever be the one to let me down. I guess that just goes to show how wrong I always am.

Dopey Dope

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Member Patricius

since 2000-08-30

Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico

6 posted 2001-03-25 02:57 PM

Great job minna!!! You truly wrote this well. I liked it a lot!

I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

I'm in love with my shadow
I admire it daily

Child of the Stars

Senior Member

since 2000-09-07

Posts 1658
Ann Arbor, MI

7 posted 2001-03-26 06:52 AM

Sorry I didn't catch this one earlier, Min...This poem was truly magnificent...and as I've said before...you're my hero.....
~Carly

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Acies

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Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-07

Posts 7665
Twilight Zone

8 posted 2001-04-04 06:41 PM

Very touching poem Minna. Your poems always comes from the heart, something the reader always sees in you poems. Hope things are good. By the way, just one thing, "enjoyed being his daughter"....past tense? You were and still are his daughter

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S.

banburycross
Senior Member

since 2001-03-27

Posts 946
viginia

9 posted 2001-04-05 08:11 AM

this is a truly beautiful poem. i'm putting it in my library even though if i read it again i'll probably start cry. thank you for sharing your beautiful feelings and memories.

Sometimes, the things that go unsaid are the only things worth hearing.

Linc

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 552
The Backstreet Boy

10 posted 2001-04-05 12:50 PM

Hey,

Aww thats nice oneday a L...O...N...G time from now I hope my kid writes something like this for me. Until your next poem

-- Linc

"Once you reach your original goal it seems that the journey was your real accomplishment."

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