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I'll Never Have a Daughter to Worry About...
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Dedicated to the woman who missed the opportunity to love and nurture a little girl of her own.

dressing baby dolls

stirring yellow dandelions

with dashes of cinder-pepper

and milkweed pods

on make-believe stoves,

playing doctor

measuring birthday-dreams

and satin ribbons,

boys

prom dresses

a white wedding gown

or pastel negligees that cling,

growing old, growing older

drying skin and oil of o'lay

diet  soft drinks

health spa bills

mulled wine

cancer

dying

 

bjd

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "I'll Never Have a Daughter to Worry About..."
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on October 18, 2009
YOU ARE A TRULY GIFTED, UNIQUE POET WHO TAKES A SUBJECT AND WRITES FROM AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ASPECT ABOUT THAT SUBJECT - AS NO ONE ELSE WOULD OR COULD. I ENJOYED THIS MOST IMPRESSIVE WORK VERY MUCH, IN WHICH SO MUCH IS SAID...IN WHAT IS NOT SAID. THANK YOU FOR SHARING AND GOD BLESS YOU. JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATION

Reviewed by Elizabeth Hobbs (Reader)
Reviewed on August 31, 2009
Hi Brenda
There's something about little girls. Your poem is great. Be well, Liz

Reviewed on July 17, 2009
Right between the eyes ... I'm so sorry, Brenda. Can't even imagine - a parent's pain, effectively, hauntingly penned. Well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :(


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