Father Chasing Poems

On a morning walk as I watched a burst of lightning flash before my eyes…
a memory was awakened…of our children chasing fireflies.

It was in the...

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Orphaned by the distant wind
as darkness bathes the dawn
My wings have flown beyond my sight
to catch the cygnet swan
A brother to the foreign soil
lost father...

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I’m running over other ones to mine.
My thoughts my father taught.  How black to white
is harvest to wheat.  How an out of line
woman...

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Chasing the man in the moon


When I was a child

all I wanted was a little warmth,

some love and maybe a smile

Not asking for too much...

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Drowned in unclogged arteries:
          thoughts.
I am going to release a swarm
     ...

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Gazing upon the firefly hovering and then, whisking away amid blithe ~

Luminescent wings sweeping such ponderings; aside

Illuminating sunlit prisms within these, countless hues....

Waters washing times...

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the silver framed reading glasses rest on the nose of a father 
who’s lost in his novel as he sits up in his now love...

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From his home-made wooden rocker my dad beckoned with his hand, 
as his wasting frame would not allow the dying man to stand 
and he...

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