We are
compiling poems written by participants during the
workshop(s). Please note which was your first poem, and
which was the second. Second, I would like to gather a
book of Letters to Dad which would be the letter
you sent or gave to your dad or just mailed it to him
without a return address to New York, NY 10012. I would
like to know who the author is and whether or not you
wish your name connected directly with the poems or
letter. Someday, we might even publish this in book
form.
First
Poetry Slam
(Using the words
wonder, feelings and the name you call you little
child)
You Can't Do It
Wrong - Suzie Gruber
Hi Sweetie,
How are you feeling today?
Joy, sadness, anger.
There's room for all of it here.
Bring a sense of wonder to each new day.
There is room for all of it here.
You simply can't do it wrong, Sweetie
You can't do it wrong.
* * *
Feelings
Round-up - Priscilla Luera
Cilla Jeanne
wanders through the forest of feelings wondering why and
how they grow. Some tall longstanding been there forever.
Others short sprouting ones that pop and fizzle. How do
they come? How do they go? How come some just sit and
boil when others peek in and out of the clouds? How come
feelings? They do their own thing. She put them in a box
on the shelfand they popped out. She put a fence
around---and they got out. Cilla Jeanne chases
feelings across the river into the meadow and says
Come back and behave!. They ignore her and
run away. Shes tired. She lets them go. They go
everywhere. What to do? Cilla Jeanne asks what to
do with these feelings.
Second Poetry
Slam
(Using the words
Forgiveness, appreciation and a positive name you would
call your birth father.)
How? -
Priscilla Luera
Dadhow can I
forgive when you never showed me how? How can I
appreciate others when you did not show me how? I am
learning from others
limping
feeling
handicapped
longing...fighting to learn through
fears, blindness, pain, sorrow. I am crawling my
way
to what? To life. I am crawling my way to life.
One baby step at a time. I wish you were here to show me
how.
* * *
Peace -
Shauna of the River
Appreciation opens
the door.
Today, Dad is on
the other side. Released from my world unto his own.
Thank you.
Forgiveness, thank
you for the love and joy that is in my lilfe, that is
coming.
Freedom - to be me,
in the world, out in that light, with other men and women
who have a sense of humor and intelect to create a new
world order for our children to come.