Dad Baptism Poems

It was a crisp day October 27th 1942 
that's when my pop set out for WW11
right after my grandmother Nona
gave birth to my dad orders...

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Silence among enemies,
Means more jobs for spies,
To see how the land lies.

Silence among friends,
Means it is time to build bridges,
Down through the ages.

Silence among Lovers,
Means...

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CAUTION, If You Do Not Like HUNTING,
DO NOT READ THIS POEM.
Thank You.





Dad Grand Pa and Family,
The Old Farm was the Place.
We hung him in the...

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I
If he forgave me, I got more than ever
Jesus not only forgave me forever
He loved me from Eternity
(or eternity past, Now, any Future)
He has not...

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It's time to
Test the new
The latest in
Technology

No more need
To drink over a
Gallon of foul
Liquid or any

Sorts of pills
To sort through
In fact it's 
Almost

Like a drive...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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After four weeks...
A cruel infection, poor Ted, now prevents
you receiving Mummy's milk; nourishment
vital for the whole of you. We long for
you to breathe, to cry,...

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Fourteen days...
			Ted, what will become of you?
Two weeks back, you were lifted out and rushed
to intensive care, breathing but fitting,
unable to tell us how it...

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Aries
husband, father, doctor, and cricketer,
Lover of poetry, photography, music, 
in a World divided by arrogance, ignorance and greed!
Dream of a world without borders, of happy...

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All rise for the Honorable D.O.J. is now presiding, Guilty was all that I was embracing, everyone knew that I had done it, yet God...

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I Was So Lost

I had been raised in church but a religious church.
They did acknowledge there was a God but
His Son was pictured as dead...

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If you wander into your local school or preschool,
What are the odds of spotting even a single pair of gumboots,
And does it matter if you...

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This fact seemed pretty damn self-evident from just about birth on.
I seemed to inconvenience my family, especially my mother. 
So with my multitudes of half-sisters...

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Donkeys are never carried
Hens never miscarry 
Cows don’t hutch 
Pointing fingers, the norm
A person killed by his persona

My ego shadows my vision 
My fault lines…...

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Dear Sacred Son,

I realize this feels like a Win-Lose
New Game Year,
with you as "Loser"
and so it is,
a self-fulfilling prophecy
equally as powerful
as if you could find...

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