Rain Dad Poems

In realms beyond, where shadows dance with glee,
Draw near, sweet child, and heed my decree.
Though my earthly form resides, in silent repose,
My essence endures, as...

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Today I was at last able to see
the broken children playing house
As I studied that little girl and boy
I found the same in me


Though trying...

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Silence spoken for by the rain—
A missing space for the missing gold of sun,
As the wind breaks on song, his china fall—
There my eyes soak...

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By the sunset, you were ploughed
In a new tableau of color for every sun's new goodbye—
Life's bright glow on my skin fades now.

On my face,...

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As the sun slowly fades it’s dimming light 
Pain takes hold and consumes the night.
A mind haunted by what’s to come,
Losing my strength, I start...

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After a much needed rainy night,                   ...

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Now that you walk the earth, 
we await your story dear child

Were you sometimes seated in there 
in a floating dream curving a path 
like...

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nestled in the lee of a thick flint wall 
guys taut, grappling to hold firm
our canvas castle shook and shuddered
flimsy but somehow reassuring respite
as mountain...

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Hey, I like Fast cars, I've lived agood life, wand the worst life like the one your waiting for.
 Time to grow up, be a...

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the big hot sun  
work for one   
now for fun 
we can run 
yes my son 
you have won  
playtime is...

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When someone you're close to and love dies, it doesn't get better with time. 
That love solidifys and rots in the center of your heart....

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In one day i study in my room
I hear thunder boom in side my room
I am so scare because the sound so loud
I hide in...

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I imagine relief while feeling comfortably numb...
anesthetized courtesy central air 

analogous to gulping down
a tall glass of ice cold water, 
which equals ultimate thirst quencher,
especially...

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Time to load up the family Dodge and hit the open road.
Our backs to California, the wheels rolling east towards the deep south. 
Arriving by...

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(The toast I wrote for Dad)


Toward the roses with his honor
Their peaked thorns of sacrifice
To those steeds he left unbroken
And the chimes a-pealing thrice

To the...

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