The Twenty-Ninth Poem: Vol. 2
A Tribute to My Daughter’s Twenty-Ninth Birthday
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A beautiful red-flowering bush
is to my left
some thirty feet away,
beyond the beige diagonally-crossed banister,
beyond the old gray-painted steps,
beyond the other white-vertical handrail,
erect and ever-so-proudly looks back at me.
She smiles and
dances and
weaves in the wind, and
tantalizingly high just for me so I can sneak a peek.
Her name, and
the petals’ names are all the same,
and they are called,
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About the Book
In The Twenty-Ninth Poem: Vol. 2, author Daddy Dave dedicates a variety of poems, stories, and observations to his daughter in honor of her twenty-ninth birthday. As with his first volume, which was dedicated to his son, this collection offers additional unique observations about life.
Written in free-verse, non-rhyming style, many of the entries reflect the mystic union between father and daughter:
and then a moment later I blew a little harder and a little harder until finally I exhaled through my nose hard enough onto that little finger of yours that I made a slight honking sound, and you giggled. That was the seed of the magic, and within seconds the concept clicked with you, and you ran down the hallway showing off your newly acquired talent to your mother. —from “How to Blow Your Nose”No two children are exactly alike, and so this second volume differs from the first in that it includes some short stories, many written by the author’s daughter when she was in the fourth grade and included here with minor modifications. Children and families are precious, and Daddy Dave encourages every parent to write down their own versions of unique stories so that they can be remembered, considered, and passed down to future generations.
About the Author
DADDY DAVE is a college professor and a professional engineer. He practices the art of karate, is an enthusiastic teacher, an occasional watercolorist, and has interests in foreign languages, classical music, mathematics, statistics, and the stock market. He has written and published several technical articles and has kept journals on various topics for many years. More importantly though, he is simply the proud father of two great kids, one of whom earns the focus of the present volume. He lives in Tennessee.