Memories Of Dad Poems

My heart aches for you more each day
I wish life could have gone another way
I knew you were ill but still holding on
Someday I will...

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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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As the years pass by me
I have more and more of them
The memories, both tragic and joyous
Fill my heart up til’ it feels so full

There...

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"If I said the word, “day”,
Nothing special you would say

24 hours that we keep,
Just one of seven that make our week

But if you look deep...

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I remember you staring daggers at me as I ate your leftover Cheese and Onion Pie,
I remember you forgiving me though, because I’d given birth...

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I remember standing on your feet to dance with you, when I was a little girl,
I remember how you taught me to waltz, around the...

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My father drank himself half to death.
I tried to understand why.
But I became stumped and hurt every time I thought about it.
He became drunk and...

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...cont

Breath...
You once said to me,"I'm a man of extremes," and I understood immediately what you meant.  When you drank, you drank hard.  When...

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Breath...
I sit looking at this page, thinking about you.
My first memories of so very long ago.
I was four and you and some friends sat in...

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A million years ago
Yet seems like yesterday
Memories of a winter cabin
On fresh snowy Sundays
Dad orchestrating
Heavenly aromas
of coffee percolating
And toast on wood stove



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I can remember hunting with my Dad
From the time I was a young lad
It never makes me sad
Everything about my Dad
Was very rad I'm just...

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Many are the memories of Hoosier farm life as a lad that I recall.
One was what Dad called 'hog renderin' that occurred every fall.
When he...

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Glazed, deep snow, virgin crunched under my aimless walk
as I idle rambled onward through a vacant, bare-treed park.
Sun was so high that its brightness flashed...

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	A Healthy Relationship Betwixt Yourself And Only Heir

A hint of helping this wholesome Harris son 
cane across thru the air
Hence this poetic expression 
of gratitude...

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Christmas as I recall was magical
all us kids would be checking out our socks.
And the Christmas tree would be all twinkling
while we tried to guess...

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In the serene silence before its flight,
amidst shifting shadows of the night.
She gathers her clouds for the pending storm,
then the clouds they take a darkened...

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Dad I miss you every day,
Not with sadness may I say.
I’m sad your gone not by my side,
I think it hurts I know I cried.
I...

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Pulling together the pieces
Our broken hearts lay bare
A needle and thread is what we need
To rescue what is left, we share 

The constant tears steam...

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Cry out 
Cry a river 
River run 
River destroy 
Destroy the pain 
Destroy the reality 
Reality of loss 
Reality of death 
Death go 
Death no more 
More time 
More laughter 
Laughter run 
Laughter destroy
Destroy the pain 
Destroy the reality 
Reality...

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A little girl I stand, awakened early morning hour.
The sound of shuffles preparing, for coffee one will scour.

Muffled voice all too familiar, for only one...

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