Ballad Dad Poems

I miss those days
Yet, I give praise

Memories take me to a place
Reminding of safety and care
Dad's quiet strength was always shared
Leaving endangerment, no space

Reminding of...

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Father, you believed
Never let me bleed
Helped me in my grief
Helped me in my need

Never let me down
Wish you were around
Walking through this town
You're nowhere to...

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Boo

I could draft a ballad
about how you’re my new muse.
How, if I need inspiration,
I have, and will never lose
how you make me feel creative
whilst singing...

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I see him sometimes 
Just looking at me
He smiles so easily
Other times he shakes his head
Then just disappears
I wish I could talk with him
And say...

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It all changed when my father died
Without his mellow we missed him inside
For my mother wasn’t strong enough to keep it together
So we drifted apart...

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Strong hands who held me up to the sun
A harbinger of knowledge so hard won
By his side I felt so good
Safe and sound like a...

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NAKED

*an ode to Fatherhood*







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I have always wanted to see
The different colors of the earth
To travel the round edges of the planet
To swim the pacific and...

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All I do all day is think about you & check your school app to see how your day is going, don't ever let anyone...

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I think the Lord is trying to kill me & only true depressed people can feel me, the energy in my spirit is getting to...

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love was just another drug to you and I would hide it n my veins, you can hear it calling CAN'T you cause I can...

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The Ballad Of Maddi

     We always take the backseat to the cheap people you meet and wonder
 why you don't see...

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He sat in an old wooden porch swing,
Elbows on knees; Salem Menthol burning down.
Thinking, smoking, Salems his favorite thing.
Fingers colored over time a deep tar...

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Little Applegate woman look at what your life 
Has grown up to be
Your world created from the raindrops
That glisten as far as you can see
Your...

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Ode to Peanut
(by my father David Swanson)

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of Peanut!
Oh her eyes are filled with wisdom and her...

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Tossing and turning,
you try to fall asleep,
freezing and burning,
you even counted sheep!

You wake up in the morning,
and you fix yourself some eggs,
you get some kind...

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