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Temple Hymns of EnheduannaEnheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE), the daughter of the famous King Sargon the Great of Akkad, is the first ancient writer whose name remains known today.
Temple Hymn 15
to the Gishbanda Temple of Ningishzida
by Enheduanna
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
faith, father daughter, god,
Form: Free verse
Legacy of Hope: My DadLegacy of Hope; My Dad
My first memories are full of your dear face
Kind brown eyes, edged with wrinkles, a mere trace
I can't see a frown nor fretful scowl, only a gap toothed grin
With a pompadour,...
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Categories:
family, father daughter, guitar,
Form: Rhyme
The music in your eyesI see the music in your eyes
I feel it deep in my soul
It excites me night and day
That music vibrates in my veins
It is soft and melodious
It stirs in me a...
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Categories:
father daughter, allusion, desire, emotions, father
Form: Free verse
Bob the BuilderYou apologize over and over,
Yet do it again cold shoulder.
In church every Sunday saying you’re a “righteous” man,
But at home you’re the devil’s right hand man.
It’s crazy how your so smart and calculated with...
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Categories:
father daughter, addiction, anger, childhood, dark,
Form: Narrative
LILYIn a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep,
Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep.
With every creak of the floorboards at night,
She'd hold her breath, gripped by fright.
Mr. Johnson, her father, a looming...
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Categories:
father daughter, anger, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
I pardon no oneWithin this ink is a taste so bitter
Warn you though I am no quitter
I don't follow fake pomp and glitter
Find within me a devotion emitter
The crosses your bearing, I was for her there log splitter
Replacing...
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Categories:
father daughter, dad, daughter, devotion, father
Form: Monorhyme
To Which Image Should We Cling
Nostalgia, my sometimes-friend, an unwavering realist,
visits from time to time with a flood of memories
centering around the polar opposites that were~~Daddy.
This daughter's mind's eye clearly sees
the tired man who would...
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Categories:
father daughter, forgiveness, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Andaree Me Again Contest--Beacon Shining Bright~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You're my guiding light, beacon shining so bright.
For you, Dad, grateful both day and night.
Your words of wisdom did stay.
Guide me through each day.
Love. Secure!
Pray.
Bond endures.
You showed me the way.
To treasure hunt, happy day!
Remembering you...
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Categories:
father, father daughter, light,
Form: Rhyme
Dialogue with the Dawn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sunrise brings dad’s words
unspoken dialogue blooms
silent love endures
...
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Categories:
father, father daughter,
Form: Senryu
The black duckIf only she knew what it was or where it lay
, The stain in her being, body, and soul.
A mark that all seem to notice or even point out,
She walked burdened with the...
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Categories:
child abuse, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
That Was Then, This is NowYour paradigm's a relic, a plea from data's cemetery,
While I sculpt luminaries on screens, a sable sea.
"Company loyalty," a myth, spun in your reverie,
But AI forges kingdoms, in ephemeral memory.
Survival's a mosaic, the gig life...
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Categories:
dad, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Sestina
Still wrestling with impasse to contentmentStill wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
father daughter, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
Snuggles and Hugs
Tell your son how much you love him
Tell him every day
And if you have more than one ...
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Categories:
father daughter, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To My Father“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” Prevost Abbe
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Beneath the vast and endless canvas of night,
A father’s memory, now a distant light,
I yearned for a farewell more profound,
As he journeyed to the...
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Categories:
father, father daughter,
Form: Ode
Veiled"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies and vicious tales,
she pled not guilty and moaned...
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Categories:
father daughter, allusion, analogy, evil, father
Form: Narrative
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