Is Now A Good Time?
A Father Daughter poem. N1 in the trilogy.13 total reviews
Comment from patcelaw
This is a lovely prayer and I very much enjoyed listening to it. Your formatting is very unique and is so different. May you have a wonderful day and a very happy new year. Patricia.
reply by the author on 07-Jan-2025
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This is a lovely prayer and I very much enjoyed listening to it. Your formatting is very unique and is so different. May you have a wonderful day and a very happy new year. Patricia.
Comment Written 07-Jan-2025
reply by the author on 07-Jan-2025
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Have a wonderful day Pat. You have really made my day.
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Have a wonderful day Pat. You have really made my day.
Comment from royowen
I know my relationship with my daughters is a good one. But I know it's important to have a good relationship with one's kin, a few more clues as to what I'd transpiring would be good, well done, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 07-Jan-2025
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I know my relationship with my daughters is a good one. But I know it's important to have a good relationship with one's kin, a few more clues as to what I'd transpiring would be good, well done, blessings Roy
Comment Written 07-Jan-2025
reply by the author on 07-Jan-2025
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A few more clues to whats transpiring... Do you have any ideas? I'm usure on how I'd make it clearer without ruining the phrasing of it all. There are also two further poems that may clear things up. For example the second poem "I'm sorry, sweetie" is this poem from the father's perspective.
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Sometimes poetry infers things, because of limited language, probably best suited to free verse, but it can be cryptic to capture imagination, probably my lack of it. I one reads scripture it can be cryptic but still poetry. Well done.
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
It sounds like your Dad was self absorbed and did not notice you much and this is so very sad. My parents had a hard time showing their love and I felt I missed out on my childhood as I often felt fear when living at home. I left home when I was eighteen and looking back, I have forgiven my past as I have had such a good life since and realise that my parents did their best, and both of them had a difficult upbringing themselves and knew no different. I am glad you have explored forgiveness. Your poem is poignant and many will identify with your words here Elizabeth, love Dolly x x x
reply by the author on 02-Jan-2025
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It sounds like your Dad was self absorbed and did not notice you much and this is so very sad. My parents had a hard time showing their love and I felt I missed out on my childhood as I often felt fear when living at home. I left home when I was eighteen and looking back, I have forgiven my past as I have had such a good life since and realise that my parents did their best, and both of them had a difficult upbringing themselves and knew no different. I am glad you have explored forgiveness. Your poem is poignant and many will identify with your words here Elizabeth, love Dolly x x x
Comment Written 02-Jan-2025
reply by the author on 02-Jan-2025
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Thank you so much and I agree, I left home initially at 16 finding my own place at 18 and it was in hindsight the best thing I could have done, I now have a beautiful family with my husband and although I don't fully understand I do forgive and move on, we're all simply human.
Comment from CrystieCookie999
This poem shows a relationship between a father and a more grown-up daughter. By the end, it is different and yet the same, when the father seems to be ill and needs attention like the child once needed as well. Thank you for the author notes. It makes good use of dialogue as a tool.
reply by the author on 02-Jan-2025
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This poem shows a relationship between a father and a more grown-up daughter. By the end, it is different and yet the same, when the father seems to be ill and needs attention like the child once needed as well. Thank you for the author notes. It makes good use of dialogue as a tool.
Comment Written 02-Jan-2025
reply by the author on 02-Jan-2025
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Thank you very much! I did just want to clarify. The end section is the daughter being sick, there is no response from the father as this final time she never really told him due to knowing his response already. The second poem "I'm sorry Sweetie" explores this same situation from his perspective.
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Ah ha. Thanks for the clarification.
Comment from Michael Ludwinder
Your poem really hit me hard - it's so emotional. I love how the repetition of "Is now a good time?". For me it builds a sense of frustration, almost like a quiet cry for attention. I felt the sadness of the last lines, Especially with how you tie everything together. This poem is powerful. Keep writing!
reply by the author on 01-Jan-2025
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Your poem really hit me hard - it's so emotional. I love how the repetition of "Is now a good time?". For me it builds a sense of frustration, almost like a quiet cry for attention. I felt the sadness of the last lines, Especially with how you tie everything together. This poem is powerful. Keep writing!
Comment Written 01-Jan-2025
reply by the author on 01-Jan-2025
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Thank you so much! It is definitely a feeling of frustration where in the end the speaker doesn't even wait for a response as she already knows what it will be. If you haven't already check out "I'm sorry Sweetie" which is a mirror of this one from the father's perspective.
Comment from lyenochka
Oh my goodness. This is so sad. I think this happens all too often as kids do need our attention and we don't respond with an open heart and set time for undivided attention. Great use of dialogue in this poem and your formatting made it clear who was talking and thinking at what point.
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Oh my goodness. This is so sad. I think this happens all too often as kids do need our attention and we don't respond with an open heart and set time for undivided attention. Great use of dialogue in this poem and your formatting made it clear who was talking and thinking at what point.
Comment Written 19-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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I'm very glad it was clear! I don't often use dialogue in poetry but I felt it was needed here
Comment from davisr (Rhonda)
Hi Elizabeth,
This is a fascinating poem highlighting the relationship between a father and his child. It shows how people, a parent in this instance, can put off another because they are busy or disinterested, and how that affects the child, and this the relationship. It gets turned around when the father is the one who has a need.
Take care,
Rhonda
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Hi Elizabeth,
This is a fascinating poem highlighting the relationship between a father and his child. It shows how people, a parent in this instance, can put off another because they are busy or disinterested, and how that affects the child, and this the relationship. It gets turned around when the father is the one who has a need.
Take care,
Rhonda
Comment Written 19-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Thank you so much for your review!
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Thank you so much for your review!
Comment from Alexandra Trovato
You gage yourself this challenge and did well. I just have these suggestions:
proud of me too
(Use a comma after me)
think of me too.
(Use a comma after me)
I just thought you could help, life hit me a bit hard.
(I'd use a ; after help because these are two compete thoughts that are closely related). That would be a appropriate for this.
Best wishes,
Alex
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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You gage yourself this challenge and did well. I just have these suggestions:
proud of me too
(Use a comma after me)
think of me too.
(Use a comma after me)
I just thought you could help, life hit me a bit hard.
(I'd use a ; after help because these are two compete thoughts that are closely related). That would be a appropriate for this.
Best wishes,
Alex
Comment Written 19-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Thank you very much for your feedback will make those edits shortly!!
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Thank you very much for your feedback will make those edits shortly!!
Comment from Trina Layne
Keep writing and sharing. I hope it's helping to ease the pain of a troubled past. We have to be so careful not to forget our kids. Our actions can leave deep scars that can have scary consequences.
reply by the author on 17-Dec-2024
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Keep writing and sharing. I hope it's helping to ease the pain of a troubled past. We have to be so careful not to forget our kids. Our actions can leave deep scars that can have scary consequences.
Comment Written 17-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 17-Dec-2024
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Thank you! And yes that is true but also is kids that have now grown need to understand that our parents are only human, the same as us (the next two poems out tomorrow show that journey)
Comment from Peter Jarvis
Now A Good Time?" is a poignant and deeply emotional poem that captures the strained relationship between a father and his daughter. The repetitive questioning of "Is now a good time?" effectively conveys the daughter's yearning for attention, validation, and support from her father. Each response she receives--ranging from dismissive to indifferent--intensifies the reader's sense of her growing isolation and emotional pain.
Being a father of 3 all this rings a familiar bell
reply by the author on 17-Dec-2024
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Now A Good Time?" is a poignant and deeply emotional poem that captures the strained relationship between a father and his daughter. The repetitive questioning of "Is now a good time?" effectively conveys the daughter's yearning for attention, validation, and support from her father. Each response she receives--ranging from dismissive to indifferent--intensifies the reader's sense of her growing isolation and emotional pain.
Being a father of 3 all this rings a familiar bell
Comment Written 17-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 17-Dec-2024
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Thank you so much! I can only post two a day. The final two parts will be on tomorrow I hope you enjoy those as the journey
progresses to forgiveness
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I am excited
Bless you
