My Little Girl Has Grown Today

http://ermiliablog.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/picture-it-and-write-5/

My little girl has grown today

in fearless forte of her own,

spirit not mine, nor anyone’s;

My little girl has grown today.

My little girl is taller still

than all the peaks of highest dreams,

than degagé before rapt Rheims;

My little girl is taller still.

My little girl has outgrown me.

She seeks adventures in boys’ eyes

and has no need of lullabys;

My little girl has outgrown me.

Eric M. Vogt, Copyright 2013

(Note: Boy, this was a harder one for me to write than I thought it would be since my little girl graduates from college this year!)

Thank you for the challenge, Picture It And Write! at

http://ermiliablog.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/picture-it-and-write-5/

About these ads
24 Comments
by Eric on February 4, 2013  •  Permalink
Posted in The Love Poems, The Philosophical Poems
Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted by Eric on February 4, 2013

http://ericmvogt.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/my-little-girl-has-grown-today/

Previous Post
Next Post
Leave a comment

24 Comments

1 2

  1. Ermilia

     /  February 16, 2013

    Awe, it’s so touching! I heard some of my relationship with my dad in your words. Congratulations to your daughter! That’s a huge accomplishment. Speaking for myself, your daughter may not need you, but that doesn’t mean you’re any less appreciated. My dad is actually being a HUGE help in formatting our paperback.

    Reply

  2. Michele Seminara

     /  February 10, 2013

    You killed me with this one Eric! So well done.

    Reply
1 2

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

  • Eric

    Eric M. Vogt retired from the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons as an educator and law enforcement officer in 2011. He has published the poems "To Home" (Minas Tirith Evening Star, 1985), "An Elven Princess" (Minas Tirith Evening Star, 1986), "Simpleness" (American Poetry Anthology, 1987), "Within a Dream" (Taj Mahal Review, 2008), "The Mountain" (Taj Mahal Review, 2008) and "Last Letter to Wilson's Creek" (The Ozarks Mountaineer, 2012) Eric published a non-fiction work entitled "Terrorists in Prison: The Challenge Facing Corrections" (Inside Homeland Security, 2007). In 2013 he published his first collection of poems entitled LETTERS TO LARA. His second poetry collection, PATHS AND POOLS TO PONDER, soon followed. Also in 2013, Eric published a non-fiction book entitled TERRORISTS WITHIN OUR WALLS The Principles of Correctional Counterterrorism (all books above available on amazon.com and its affiliates across the world as well as barnesandnoble.com). He resides in Missouri with his two Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Sissy Longstreet and Jack the Crackerjack Welshman.

    View Full Profile →

  • Copyright

    Eric M. Vogt 2012, 2013. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog's author, administrator and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Eric M. Vogt and Eric M.Vogt's Blog with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

  • Anthology of Prose and Poem

  • Creator of the First Cup Award for Artistic Brilliance

  • Awarded 5 Times

  • SPECIAL MENTION

  • MEMBER

  • OZARKS WRITERS LEAGUE MEMBER

  • RETIRED MEMBER

  • RETIRED MEMBER, CHS-V

  • Archives

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 293 other followers

%d bloggers like this: