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    • Jennifer's Books >
      • Be Beautiful >
        • About the Book
        • BUY BE BEAUTIFUL
      • The Many Tails of Luck-shmee >
        • About the Book
        • BUY THE MANY TAILS
        • Event Pictures
        • Lakshmi the Cat
      • Poems from Passion >
        • About the Book
    • Poems >
      • New Poems >
        • The Morning Quiet
        • On Why I Read Poetry
        • Our Song
        • Everything
        • Moonshine
        • Escape
        • Smiling Eyes
        • Mercy
        • Hey, Dad. Do You Remember Me?
      • Poems from Passion >
        • When the Heart Beats
        • Let Me View Life- The Way the Heart Feels..
        • Little Girl
        • The Light
        • When I Called Her Name
        • Betwixt the Stars
        • Cherry Blossom's Bloom
        • The Smell of Rain
        • Fire and Ice
        • Kissing Contusion
        • Inside Each Other's Kiss
        • She Was Mad-
        • The Trace of Night
        • The Seeker
        • Butterflies Break-
        • The Moment Before Janet Arrived
        • I Pretend
        • Collapsed Star
        • My Heart Bleeds...
        • Love Divided
        • In Loving Memory
        • Life Teaches in Mysterious Ways
        • I Learned I was Valuable
        • I Choose to Burn
        • Good Love Doesn't Hurt
        • Daring Hearts
        • Your Presence
        • The Tides
        • She Fell
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        • You Never Said Goodbye...
        • Lady Compassion Waits
        • I'm Hungry-
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        • Good Morning, My Love...
        • Tell Me
        • Lean Back
        • All Through the Night...
        • Your Eyes
        • Every Heartbeat
        • Thanksgiving
      • Be Beautiful Poems >
        • Let Me
        • Look Up!
        • Water
        • In-Joy!
        • Amethyst
        • Call Me
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        • The Heart
        • Connected Kisses
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        • I Love to Feel
        • Saxophone Song
        • When the Lover Speaks
        • Shed My Flesh
        • Tongue Tied
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        • Break Me
        • The Process of Healing
        • True Nature of a Healer
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        • Heal Yourself First
        • No Shame in Pain
        • Your Needs Come First
        • Heal the Self - Heal the World
      • On Art
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        • Love Yourself
        • Be Kind with Yourself
        • To Deeply Nurture Yourself
        • Feel What You Feel
        • Self-compassion is Courageous
        • To Surrender is to Accept
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        • Creativity is the Greatest Form of Conception-
        • A Writer
        • Good Poetry
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        • Creative Consciousness
        • Seek the Sensations Inside First
        • Allowing
        • Palms to Prayer-
        • Teach Other's Well
        • Sometimes... Life Steps In
        • Baby Steps
        • If You Don't Let Go and Grow-
        • It's Okay to Walk Away..
        • In Being One-
        • Opportunities
        • It's interesting...
      • Meditation Series >
        • Be the Example
        • Our Bodies Are Fluid-
        • Meditation is not just closing the eyes-
        • To Be Steady in Chaos
        • Silence
        • Awareness
        • Seeds of Light
      • Inner Strength Series >
        • Leave Your Mark
        • Trials
        • Those Who Strike-
        • Change Happens
        • Make Waves
        • Knowing Yourself
        • Courage 1
        • Courage 2
        • Strength
        • Transformation Doesn't Have to Hurt...
        • Embrace the Trials
        • Be Your Own Hero
        • Personal Power
        • Inspiration
        • Structure
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        • Root Invocation
        • Root Shaped Chakra
        • Trust
        • Foundation
        • Your Roots
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        • The Womb
        • Rebirth
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        • Care for the Soul
        • Sweetness
        • Vulnerability
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        • Passion and Purpose
        • What Makes You a Powerful Experince
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Hey Dad, do you Remember, Me...?

Hey, dad, do you remember me...?
I remember 5am polaroids bleary-eyed,
banned from family affection
or how about
those promises, empty
and longing cries inside the turtle’s chest
where I used to keep my childhood safe
and where I felt secure or when
I’d
climb up hidden ledges in the closet
to feel snug while wiping sadness from the walls.
The only place I could etch my name
and be seen in the world in the wood
t
hat held the house together.

Do you remember me dad...?
How I’d put my dreams in a little green box
screened by night
and I’d whisper into the clouds, everything
because the night was so silent and I,
was so sure I could be heard.
Do you remember, dad…?
Those long days in puddles on Ridgewood
hopping scotch; blue, pink, and yellow chalk
on the ground, on my fingertips.
How I'd ride down the big hill for mom’s tobacco
and milk and maybe, even steal a heart or two.


I remember, dad.. do you?
Do you remember those bad dreams
in waiting,
for you, in waiting for my brothers
for family time
because"little girls could get lost."
in waiting...
for your voice on the other end
in waiting...
by the door, the window, outside, looking
waiting...
in hopes and fears, in hoping
in waiting...
and waiting..
and waiting..
and waiting for you, dad
for you, waiting...
through each birthday passed
waiting...
through each year passed
waiting...


waiting..


waiting...


You see, I remember you, Dad…
I remember it all.

- J. Circosta, Tiny Poet, 2017
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