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        • Healing is a Choice
    • Emotional Wellness >
      • Emotional Wellness Coaching >
        • Emotional Wellness Coaching
        • Emotional Concepts & Tools >
          • EMOTIONAL CONCEPTS >
            • Vulnerability is the True Strength
            • The Gifts of Forgiveness
            • Boundaries
            • Consistency
            • Acceptance
          • EMOTIONAL TOOLS >
            • Defining Your Values
            • Renew Your Path: 8 Steps
            • Self-Efficacy: 4 Steps
      • Emotional Release Technique
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          • ENERGY CONCEPTS >
            • The Thread of Manifestation
          • ENERGY TOOLS >
            • Ego Eradicator
    • Whole Body Restoration >
      • Raindrop Energy Technique
      • Manual Lymphatic Drainage
      • Gentle Touch Yoga
      • Essential Oil Spotlight >
        • Oils for Immune Boost
        • Oils for Physical Wellbeing
        • Oils for Emotional Balance >
          • Valor
    • Healing Testimonials
  • Gifts of Gratitude
    • Principles Passions & Purpose
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    • 100 Days of Appreciation >
      • DAY 1- 80's Music
      • DAY 2- Connection
      • Day 3- A Snail's Pace
  • *Inner Beauty Blog*
  • Jennifer's Musings
    • Jennifer's Author Bio
    • Jennifer's Written Works >
      • Poems >
        • New Poems >
          • Imagine
          • The Morning Quiet
          • On Why I Read Poetry
          • On Art
          • Our Song
          • Everything
          • Moonshine
          • Escape
          • Smiling Eyes
          • Mercy
          • Hey, Dad. Do You Remember Me?
        • Poems from Passion >
          • Part I >
            • 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
          • Part II >
            • Kissing Contusion
            • Inside Each Other's Kiss
            • Butterflies Break-
            • She Was Mad-
            • Fire and Ice
            • The Trace of Night
          • Part III >
            • The Moment Before Janet Arrived
            • She Didn't Know
            • I Pretend
            • Collapsed Star
            • My Heart Bleeds...
            • Love Divided
            • In Loving Memory
            • You Never Said Goodbye...
            • Life Teaches in Mysterious Ways
            • I Learned I was Valuable
            • I Choose to Burn
            • Good Love Doesn't Hurt
          • Part IV >
            • Daring Hearts
            • The Tides
            • She Fell
            • Your Presence
            • I'm Hungry-
            • The Seeker
            • Lady Compassion Waits
        • Love Notes... >
          • 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
      • Short Stories >
        • The Lady and the Sea
        • Olly and Mildred
        • Super FLy!
        • 1713 Maplewood Drive >
          • Official Teaser
        • Divine Grace
      • Inner Beauty Quotes >
        • Heart Series >
          • The Wind
          • The Heart
          • Connected Kisses
          • Beauty
          • Sweetness
          • Love Story
          • Emotion
          • Keep Close to your Heart
          • I Love to Feel
          • Saxophone Song
          • When the Lover Speaks
          • Shed My Flesh
          • Tongue Tied
        • Healing Series >
          • Break Me
          • The Process of Healing
          • True Nature of a Healer
          • Healing
          • In Order to Heal
          • Heal Yourself First
          • No Shame in Pain
          • Your Needs Come First
          • Heal the Self - Heal the World
        • Compassion Series >
          • Surrender
          • Love Yourself
          • Be Kind with Yourself
          • To Deeply Nurture Yourself
          • Feel What You Feel
          • Self-compassion is Courageous
          • To Surrender is to Accept
        • Creative Series >
          • Go with the Flow
          • Creativity is the Greatest Form of Conception-
          • A Writer
          • Good Poetry
        • Wisdom Series >
          • Spiritual Connection
          • Grow Your Garden
          • Life Happens
          • 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
      • Meditation Musings >
        • 1st Chakra >
          • Root Invocation
          • Root Chakra
          • Your Roots
          • Trust
          • Foundation
        • 2nd Chakra >
          • 2nd Chakra Invocation
          • Sacral Shaped Chakra
          • The Womb
          • Rebirth
          • Comfort
          • Care for the Soul
          • Sweetness
          • Vulnerability
          • Allowing 1
          • Allowing 2
          • Passion and Purpose
          • What Makes You a Powerful Experince
        • 3rd Chakra >
          • Stand in Your Power
          • Be Light
          • JoY!
        • 4th Chakra >
          • Heart Innvocation
          • Unstruck
          • 3 Fold Flame of Forgiveness
          • When the Heart Beats
          • The Power of Vulnerability
          • Heart Vision
          • Heartfelt Motion
        • 5th Chakra >
          • Truth
          • Listen
          • Silence
        • 6th Chakra >
          • Awareness
          • Shedding to Shift
        • 7th Chakra >
          • I AM
    • 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
    • Reviews
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Hey Dad, do you Remember, Me...?

Hey, dad!
Do you remember me...?

I remember,
early morning polaroids,

bleary-eyed and banned
from affection
or how about
those
promises, empty

and cries longing
inside the turtle’s chest

where I kept my childhood,
safe and secure
or when I
climbed up
​hidden ledges in the closet

to feel snug,
wiping sadness from the walls.

The only place-
I could etch my name
and be seen in the world,
in the wood,
holding
the house together.

Do you remember me, dad...?
How I’d put my dreams,
in a little green box
by night and whisper
min to the clouds,
everything
because the night,
was so silent
and I was so sure,
I would be heard.

Do you remember, dad…?
Those long days in puddles,
on the streets at Ridgewood
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 pie or two.


Do you remember, dad?
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,
by the window,
outside,
looking, waiting...
in fears,
in hoping, in waiting...
and waiting..
in waiting for you, dad
to remember
for you, I’m waiting...
through passing days...
in waiting...
through years gone fast
waiting...

I’m still waiting..

You see, I remember, dad.

I remember it all-

- Tiny Poet, 2017
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