Death Dad Poems

The day my life changed when I was seventeen,                ...

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This is just a little poem to help get through the day..
I can't be there in person to express the words to say.
Dad your pretty...

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Blessed was I to be a thread of love sown by you.
Growing up, I was pleased you thought me your twin flair.
Losing you was the...

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It was an early Christmas present
I was so anxious to give it to him
It was so soft and luxurious
I thought how it would keep him...

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(a friend of mines son died some years ago while out with his dad working on the rubbish truck)..

IF HE STILL HAD A VOICE..
The day...

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Dad

I wrote this poem Dad for you today
I know that you soon will be going away
As sad as it makes me, God has his plan
You...

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We never get the chance to say goodbye
Not even our regular high five's 
Like a vanishing star or a wisp of smoke 
You took your...

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We never get the chance to say goodbye
Not even our regular high five's 
Like a vanishing star or a wisp of smoke 
You took your...

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You, my Dad, And Me**

Giggles can be heard if I close my eyes and think,
A cute little girl, who still loves the colour pink.

Swings and...

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Silence ...
  deep ...
overwhelming silence
Your arduous journey ...
- with fire and sulfur

A hand to hold
Words for comfort
A cold cloth on your forehead
Moisten your mouth
-...

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My full first name is "Elizabeth Clare,"
As orthodox as any to be seen -
My mother's choice of Christian-name wear,
Dad would have preferred "Margaret Irene,"
(Named for...

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The day I lost you was the
day I  died inside. 
Those times when you 
used to tuck me in at night. 
The times you...

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A life so giving, 
A love so filling, 
But a heart of stone,

A wife so caring, 
A child so becoming, 
But I feel alone,

I feel...

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Breathing out serenely mortal breath’s end
Dad faced death, courageously triumphant
Leaving us faith’s legacy to ascend…
Midst infirmity, staying jubilant
Exposing countenance so radiant.

In our struggle to conquer...

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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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Although this is torture at best
I often try to make it real in my head
the way you would have looked over his chest
watching the life...

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God made you an angel to carry me through the days ,
To comfort me when I'm lonely,
And show me  a better way.
10 years have...

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"Are they going to take him off life support?" 
I heard my middle daughter whisper with burden.
In a silenced gasp of terror,
I knew I was...

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Angels Touch the Earth

The soft color of red, 
turned ever so slowly to pink… carnations.
The grand color of blue, 
the sky, the ocean, 
the color...

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