Breaking New Ground

Please permit a proud parent to dote
On successes daughters have earned.
All have worked into careers of note,
Easy paths steadfastly spurned.

Sue has always been on the frontiers,
Star of boy’s soccer in junior high,
Choir leader during her college years,
Martial arts learned to apply.

She followed her father’s career path,
Found in computers her interests lie,
Matched social skills with network math,
In growth passed her father by.

The intricacies of law, Amy chose,
And very soon, took her degree,
Through the office ranks she rose
Now chief researcher come to be,

But holds family life over the other,
And has been absolutely superb,
To Joey and Wendy, terrific mother,
To community, pillar and proverb.

Karen is the life of the party,
Ebullience her stock in trade,
Tells a joke with laugh so hearty,
Disguises contributions made.

For she takes to physical sciences,
Physics, chemistry, double degree,
World-class scientific conferences
Invite to speak of her artistry,

Of her major scientific advance,
Inventive knowledge, world to show,
Revolution in industrial stance,
Esoteric new way crystals grow.

I’m thrilled at their vocational prowess,
Systems manager, lawyer, PhD.
Equally happy with their loveliness,
The people they turned out to be.

© 2004 R. Leland Waldrip