Daddy's Pond
Kathleen Patricia Egan
[egankathy@hotmail.com]
On Daddy's pond
Moonlight dissolves into
A thousand dancing fairies
Dragonflies flirt
Water lilies preen themselves
A shy inchworm creeps amid the bulrushes
And Daddy reassures Verna that everything's all right
In a bullfrogs baritone proclamations
Verna hears her Daddy's voice
Speaking of birds, gardens,
Life and love
Peepers chorus as
the silvery piano footprints of Debussy
entice Verna
into an impressionistic dream
starring Daddy
while
a warm night zephyr ruffles the pond
and strokes her cheek with Daddy's fingers
As long as the pond embraces Verna
With the timeless arms of Daddy's love
She will never have to wish him back
Poem © 2000 Kathleen Patricia Egan, all rights reserved
appears here by permission
This poem is also published at these web sites:
www.poetry.com and
www.shadowpoetry.com.
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This poem was written for a co-worker of mine whose father
passed away. When she was a child, her father made a pond
for her, and she decided to create one in his memory.
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