Tag: #loveyoudad

• Published : Two years since you left

  

  I’m pleased to say that my letter poem, ‘Two years since you left’ has been published by NY-based press, SpillWords Press. I had written the poem on my dad’s second death anniversary, 26th, November. However, the poem only got published now as I’d sent it only on the 23rd to the press, following which SpillWords […]

  Smitha V

  January 6, 2023

  Poetry

  #father, #feelgood, #healing, #lossandlove, #loveyoudad, #memory, #missingyou, #nostalgia, #obituary, #published, #spillwords, #tribute

• Published: My dad, the Pied Piper

  

  My poem, ‘ My dad, the Pied Piper’ was published on 26th November 2021, on my dad’s first death anniversary by Spillword Press. It was very kind of them to publish the poem on the very date. I wrote the poem a month earlier and sent it to them informing them about the death anniversary […]

  Smitha V

  December 4, 2021

  Poetry

  #dadsanddaughters, #deathanniversary, #father, #granddad, #healing, #life, #loveyoudad, #missyou, #parents, #spillwordspress

• And then pa?

  

  I stand watching you While you fight for your life Your breathing slow, each breath slower than the last I hear the machines beeping, an urgency And then there is silence, they beep no more I see you sleeping Like you’ve dozed off like you used to, before, when we were young while telling a […]

  Smitha V

  December 4, 2020

  Experiences, Poetry

  #dealingwithloss, #death, #father, #fathersanddaughters, #healing, #life, #loveyoudad, #memories, #pain, #relationshippoems, #truth

• Jargons

  

  They said they’d let you go ‘Discharge,’ was the word they used I thought it meant you were coming home You did; just not how I thought you would I’m looking for answers Trying to fill the blank spaces There are too many- Unanswered questions, jargons For ‘closure,’ I tell them I need to understand […]

  Smitha V

  December 3, 2020

  Experiences, Poetry

  #answers, #closure, #death, #jargons, #loss, #lossofaparent, #loveyoudad

• Daddy’s little girl

  

  When she could stay with you she decided not to A list of ‘valid’ reasons she gave – No better place, save The home for the aged, she said The one, where you felt caged   She repeated it oft Her voice tender and soft You listened Your eyes glistened She said it was tough […]

  Smitha V

  February 8, 2020

  Poetry

  #ageing, #children, #creativewriting, #Fathers, #grief, #life, #love, #loveyoudad, #parents, #poem, #relationships, #Sorrow, #sorry, #truth, Poetry