5/30/2026 for Father Poetry Contest sponsored by Silent One
Every day, the old man worked the soil, but he whistled. He didn't toil. Each day, I was a child at play, and as I whiled away the hour, I fell under his power - till the day there was no sound. The shovel lay on the ground and sprouted up...a flower.
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