Happy Birthday Daddy a memorial repost

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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2001-10-16 02:03 AM

Droplet Kept

My daddy spoke
in graveled voice
Matter-fact
No-life-of-choice
and spoke of times
I could not know
and how he watched
the cotton grow
and watched a flower's
bloom with dread
knowing fingers
bleed of bed
prick of thistles
fingers bled
white cotton
dripping droplets red

and then? he smiled.
and then? i wept....
to know that I am
droplet kept.

****************

"It was a road so bad, didn't matter where it went to--didn't wind up nowhere, nohow"

W.W. Hood October 16,1922-July 19,2001

****************

Texas Stones

He would hate this.
....I cry out...
Erase this--he
would silence shout.

My father had more dignity--
more than he bequeathed to me.

I wish I had one wisdom sage
in tranquility of age
I wish that I could write his voice
in gravel, Texas stones of moist.

I wish that I could let you know
how his garden green did grow
and all his silences within
gave birth to all the tales I spin.

I write in ink of tear tonight
I miss him so, I miss his Might---
I wish he would appear to me-
and tell me that death set him free.

****************

"I never really played guitar--I just switched chords whenever Thurman (his brother) kicked me..."

--W.W. Hood, husband, father, musician and philosopher

****************

The Legacy

Now I understand
there is nothing that I know
that everything I thought was real
was nothing more than mere fool's gold.

I know now that I am corrupt
and all my laws were nothing but
a rationale to justify
insanity of simple lies.

Everything I told myself
is nothing more than gathered dust
my life has been neglected shelf
and no one else to blame but self

and so I leave this simple trust:
I live to love, because I must.
I thank you for the lesson learned.
Even as the fire burns
I am now forever charred
Proudly I will wear the scars
of living in the only truth--
strengthened by memories of you.

****************

"I'm always gonna be your little girl, Daddy."--
K. Hood

Happy Birthday Daddy. We miss you, and if you were just the tiniest bit proud of me, as I am of you, then maybe I can rest too tonight. I love you.

Duncan
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1 posted 2001-10-16 02:15 AM

I know now that I am corrupt
and all my laws were nothing but
a rationale to justify
insanity of simple lies.

Your entire post spoke to me. I may have picked out these lines because I relate most to them. Karen, this is a fine piece, sincere and poetic.
You've said more in one poem to your father than I've said in my lifetime.
Not that it's relevant, but my birthday is also today. It just makes me feel kind of good that I share that with someone like your father.

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2001-10-16 02:20 AM

hugging you through tears duncan! I feel like I was heard.

THANK YOU AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Auguste

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3 posted 2001-10-16 03:26 AM

Tears here...my daddy is also gone, as is my mother. this spoke loudly to me. It touched 'home'. Thank you, sweet friend for causing me to remember. *hugs* and I miss you.

Michael

Michael Auguste~
There is more depth to the heart than the mind can comprehend and it only has boundaries when we choose to fence it in.

Jon Mewett
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4 posted 2001-10-16 06:06 AM

'I wish that I could let you know
how his garden green did grow
and all his silences within
gave birth to all the tales I spin.'

This is a rather beautiful piece of poetry....and a fine epitaph.....even without the rest of this fine piece of writing.

Stay warm

Jon

RSWells
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5 posted 2001-10-16 06:53 AM

Of course your Daddy's proud of you. What Father wouldn't be proud of such Love? Lately I've started to realize how much more enjoyable my own life would be were I to tone it down and enjoy the many simple pleasures that should make up what has become a far too complex and demanding existence.

Tracey
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6 posted 2001-10-16 07:11 AM

Serenity, this is a most touching tribute to your Dad. I'm sure he's reading it up there with a tear of pride falling down his cheek for the lovely words his little girl spoke for him.

I write in ink of tear tonight
I miss him so, I miss his Might---
I wish he would appear to me-
and tell me that death set him free.

While I'm not a religious person, I do believe in a higher power and an after life, so I believe death did set him free to live an after life of peace and beauty. That's what got me through the death of my Mom. But what I wouldn't give for one more day with my Mom to tell her what she really meant to me....

If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please?

Marge Tindal

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7 posted 2001-10-16 09:07 AM

Serenity~
This little heart sends a great big *HUG*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
[email protected]

SmartChick
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8 posted 2001-10-16 09:26 AM

Thank you for reposting this. I missed it the first time. I'm sure your daddy was proud of you.

SmittenKitten
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9 posted 2001-10-16 09:32 AM

Serenity~ I'm sending hugs your way sweet poetess....the depth of your love for him shines through your words.

Hugs and love,
~Krista

P.S. If you'd like to put that picture up, I know how now. You can email it to me and I'll post it on my photo site and then send you the link.

Your beautiful words & creativity allow me to connect with the same in myself.
Thank you for having the courage to share yourself so that I can too

jwesley
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10 posted 2001-10-16 01:36 PM

I really liked them all, my lady, but the first one...well touched a chord...deeply.

jwesley

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11 posted 2001-10-16 01:53 PM

This will be sit somewhere on my desktop today. What wonderful loving memories. I can see your father smiling right now, so proud of his little girl.

serenity blaze
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12 posted 2001-10-16 04:01 PM

I want to thank you all....I printed this up and brought it to him today. And with a smile, I must tell you the story---he was so ill he didn't realize that I'd turned forty this year--and it broke his heart that he'd forgotten and he said "My baby is forty years old!" And that's when I told him that I'd always be his little girl. And it's true.
Thank you all for your comfort throughout this very difficult year. HUGS and LOVE to all.

Dark Angel
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13 posted 2001-10-16 05:42 PM

This is a beautiful tribute for your Daddy Karen, he is there right beside you hon, proud and listening... always!

hugs
Maree.

Startime
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14 posted 2001-10-16 06:26 PM

As tears gather in my eyes......I can only say to you that this is a beautiful tribute to your father. WONDERFUL AND HEARTFELT. I love it.

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Mysteria

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15 posted 2001-10-17 12:56 PM

May I tell you something - I have not spoken to my Father for years, and have nothing good to say to or about him at all, but I always wanted to love him as a parent the way you have written this to your Dad. I cried when I read this Karen, in happiness for you having experienced this kind of love, for him knowing it, and for me and my Dad having never known it. He must be very, very proud of you as this was the greatest gift you could ever give him, your love.

~I always have time to listen to someone talking from their heart~

serenity blaze
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16 posted 2001-10-17 03:39 AM

thanks...and it may not be art, but it's love, and hey, that may be the grandest art of all....and yep, my daddy taught me that.

Thanks again..,

Janet Marie
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17 posted 2001-10-17 07:45 AM

and then? he smiled.
and then? i wept....
to know that I am
droplet kept.
==============================

yes, you are "droplet kept" ... and a fathers promise kept as well....and you dont need me to tell you he is proud....
how could he not be.
forgive me for being a day late and a dollar short to this beautiful tribute...but such is my life these days.....
and like Michael above... I too miss hearing from you.
hearthugs K.
me

This distance has shown how the road remains alone
Now I'm looking in my life ... for a truth that is my own.

wayoutwalt
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18 posted 2001-10-17 08:30 AM

Its sad to lose a dad I lost one not a year ago.

Martie

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19 posted 2001-10-17 01:01 PM

Karen--When you write of your love for you dad..you write with pure gold...he knows.. He has always known!

vlraynes
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20 posted 2001-10-22 07:39 PM

serenity-
   No question about it...love IS the
   grandest of all, and you've expressed
   it beautifully, my friend.
   Your daddy taught you well.
   Hugs,
   ~Vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his heart,
you have not truly met the poet.
~vlraynes

The Lady of Shallot
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21 posted 2001-10-22 07:51 PM

Karen, I know your father would be very proud of this and is very proud of it because I believe all poems reach those we love...even in heaven. To have this blessing, these wonderful memories mean more than a person can ever express don't they?
How blessed you were to have had such a loving, wonderful father and I KNOW he is proud of you!

-befriend yourself and you will never be alone-

Sven

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22 posted 2001-10-22 08:37 PM

quote:
and if you were just the tiniest bit proud of me, as I am of you, then maybe I can rest too tonight

sleep well dear one. . . for tonight, a spirit smiles. . . and whispers his love for you. . . as he always has. . . and always will. . .

you know that we share this don't you? for although our experiences and emotions are different. . . they are yet the same. . . for we learn to teach. . . and we teach to learn. . .

I'm proud of you too. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

serenity blaze
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23 posted 2001-10-22 11:43 PM

Again, I must thank you all, and urge you all that still have your loved ones with you, to talk and just BE with them....understanding them helps you to understand yourself. And even though grieving? I am a lucky, lucky soul....

(((((((dad))))))))

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