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The Prodigal Daughter (Free verse) by Dovina

She asked her Daddy for a hug and a kiss For she was off with a man in a van Educated, working, enriched with skill She knew her life’s pattern; her ethics were set He wept as he held her and gave her a kiss Said only he’d rather she not go like this With a man in a van to search for a home To look for the best little farm in the land So she left with a plan, lots of hope and a man Sat beside him gazing at houses and land For six months they traveled, checked prices and work Then settled in the hills of mid Tennessee She invited her father to see how she’d done He came to the cornrows, tobacco, and cows And walked in the forest that heated her home He sat by her fire and said it was good Seven years later she came groveling home The farm a success, the house they’d built cozy But her man found another and left her alone Now she came groping, her plan gone amok Her father forgave her, took her back in Now SHE cried when he hugged her and kissed Still young and healthy, in search of a plan Now she will ask him about each new man

Dovina 16-May-06/12:35 PM
We are both lovers of Seuss, and lovers of vacation, apparently. You must just have returned from some horrible dive into depravity, otherwise you would have explained your absence. Such explanations are expected of any reputable ranker. I, striving for some degree of honor, hereby advise everyone that on 5/25 I will depart this prestigious site in favor of two months of bicycling in Canada, and will check in here only occasionally.

But I can’t be too harsh, having just received a flattering 10. For that I thank you and return a little Seuss: “Just say what you want. You want pickles on trees? Want to swing through the air on a flying trapeze? Just say what you want, and whatever you say, you’ll get on Octember the First.”




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