In Memory of Dad
By RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (91217)
Daytona Beach, Florida
November 22, 2025 2:50pm CST
Looking through some old papers and notebooks today, I found some old poems of mine. They were written in Latvian. This one was written 8 years after my dad died, so I was 18, and the memories still could hurt. I translated the poem, and it reflects one winter when Dad and I went to Owl’s Head Park in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, and I was about four years old.
At the Park
Eight years have gone by,
since you quietly said to me,
“Let’s build a snowman!”
To me it seems,
as if it was just yesterday,
like in some dream it all went too quickly.
Life keeps flowing on and on,
now only imaginative footprints,
remain on a snowy night,
but the snowman and you have disappeared—
while bright memories remain.
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@LeaPea2417 (38969)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Nov
I'm glad you have good memories of your Dad.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Nov
@LeaPea2417 to this day I do and was glad to find this poem,
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
@LadyDuck that was 8 years down the line and I was still feeling the loss a lot,
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@much2say (57668)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Nov
@RasmaSandra Though it may have been a while back, the memory is still crystal clear. I have a memory of my father peeling an apple for me near our car during vacationing in San Francisco - I think I was about 3.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
@much2say I remember we built that snowman right by the gates to the park and I can imagine how we looked a small child barely up to dad's knee and a man 6 feet tall.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
@JudyEv my father was a popular Latvian writer and poet, and if he could have been around at this times I can just imagine how much he could have done with a PC to write on. Sometimes I write a poem and suddenly my fingers fly over the keys and when I am done a read the poem and look up and say, Thank you, dad knowing he helped.
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@JudyEv (366152)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Nov
@RasmaSandra I'm sure he and your mother are both looking over you.
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@Deepizzaguy (116452)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
23 Nov
Great memory you have spending time with your late father.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
@Deepizzaguy just wish I had had a chance to have some adult memories too,
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@Deepizzaguy (116452)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
23 Nov
@RasmaSandra I know what you mean.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
@LindaOHio funny this is one bright memorie but some other try as I might I cannot make so real, Glad to have found this poem,
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Nov
@AmbiePam by that time I was growing up and still missing him terribly,
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@celticeagle (182438)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Nov
Lovely. Thank goodness for our memories.
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@celticeagle (182438)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Nov
@RasmaSandra .......That is very true.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Nov
@celticeagle memories are what keep us going,
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@marguicha (229443)
• Chile
22 Nov
I don´t know why it took me so long to check online about Latvia as I have known you here for so long. Maybe it was your beautiful poem. Thank you, friend. You have given me today yet another piece of the world.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
@noni1959 I might not thing of something for years and then suddenly it just comes back to me,
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@noni1959 (11240)
• United States
26 Nov
@RasmaSandra That is the same with me. Working on the family tree book, memories have been popping up a lot.
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@RasmaSandra (91217)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Nov
@Shiva49 it is great to have the memories.
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