Posts Tagged ‘tough love’
July 11, 2019
An adm’rals daughter,/
she still slept ‘neath bridges ’til/
she got herself straight.
Tags:admiral's daughter, CyranoWriter, daddy's girl, Emotional poetry, father's love, get straight, haiku, hurting, Kuhns, living in integrity, revolutionary poetry, sleeping beneath bridges, tough love, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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October 21, 2012
Sometimes all you can/
do is wait, pray, hope, have faith,/
and do all you can.
Tags:act, admiting papers, anorexia, CyranoWriter, daughter, do all you can, eating disorder, Emotional poetry, fath, haiku, hope, hurting, IMprov haiku, ImproVerse haiku, Kuhns, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, pray, revolutionary poetry, show faith, showing faith, sign, Suffering, tough love, treatment center, wait, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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October 19, 2012
Being there for her/
means sometimes I won’t answer
her painful request.
Tags:anorexia, answer, being there, CyranoWriter, eating disorder, Emotional poetry, father's love, haiku, IMprov haiku, IMprov Poetry, ImproVerse haiku, Kuhns, painful, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, request, revolutionary poetry, tough love, won't answer, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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October 19, 2012
You may now notice/
that all the people who love/
you won’t talk to you.
Tags:anorexia, CyranoWriter, eating disorder, haiku, hurting, IMprov haiku, ImproVerse haiku, Kuhns, no answer, notice, people who love you, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, revolutionary poetry, tough love, we won't answer, won't talk to you, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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October 19, 2012
I wasn’t doing/
anything so I couldn’t/
get her. I wouldn’t.
Written after my daughter’s phone call from a eating disorder treatment center: “What are you doing that you can’t come and get me?!?”
Tags:anorexia, couldn't, CyranoWriter, doing anything, eating disorder, Emotional poetry, get her, haiku, hurting, IMprov haiku, ImproVerse haiku, Kuhns, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, revolutionary poetry, Suffering, tough love, treatment center, working through issues, wouldn't, www.cyranowriter.com
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October 19, 2012
She felt as though she/
had no control, so I gave/
it back. It’s now hers.
Or
it back. She must do.
Or
… so I quit
helping her escape.
Written after my daughter claimed she had no control in her life, then called me begging me to come get her from a treatment center she could leave on her own.
Tags:anorexia, control, controlling your own life, CyranoWriter, daughter, Do, eating disorder, Emotional poetry, escape, giving control, giving up, haiku, hunger, hungry, hurting, IMprov haiku, ImproVerse haiku, Kuhns, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, revolutionary poetry, rhyme, rhyme scheme, rhyming haiku, starving, Suffering, taking control, tough love, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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October 18, 2012
She is strong enough/
to do this. Can we be strong/
enough to let her?
Written after my daughter was admitted to a treatment center for eating disorders, then started calling, begging to be released.
Tags:anorexia, CyranoWriter, do this, eating disorder, Emotional poetry, haiku, hurting, IMprov haiku, ImproVerse haiku, Kuhns, let her, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, rescue, revolutionary poetry, self esteem, strength, strong enough, Suffering, tough love, treatment, working through issues, www.cyranowriter.com
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Sometimes all you can/
Cyrano Writer: Musings of a Revolutionary Romantic Poet 
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