Wisdom Dad Poems

MY MEAN PARENTS

My mom and dad are very mean.
I'd like to trade them in.
It seems no matter what I do
It's classified as sin.

I only want...

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Tennis on the television.
Heinous sneezes from my toddler.
Lettuce bits sprayed across our laps.
Menace to society's Joe the Waddler,

Arriving at the war zone toy room,
Deriving future...

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The little kid changed my life
though lived half the age
me ,downed by the blues of life
life had lost its charm and grace.

BUT

this innocent gaze and...

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She romped and rolled around me in proud stiff pompous gait
I was not impressed by the ruffle of her skirt
Or the wicked laughter of the...

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Getting a Wife......

When I was just a stripling lad
My Father said to me
Get yourself a wife my boy
And here’s how she must be

Sufficient mouth to...

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"Is it a girl? I think it's a girl!!...Doc?"
Flowers form'd blooms from sunny Easter skies
Let's call her Sophia Pascal Peacock
Our first baby born with baby...

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this I dedicate to you Daddy
Billy Joe Scott
04/10/1958-
02/20/2020



The eyes I've seen 
My entire life
Are smiling back at me
The laugh I've dreamt
Is contagious
As I knew it...

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Here I am
Expected to listen to you
As a good son should
And I do
And I want to

But...

Mom is failing
She has succumbed to her...thinking...
The illness can't be...

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Wishing you were here

It’s been so long since I have heard your voice
So deep and commanding
So strong and comforting
I would give anything for one more...

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Is a man that was robbed of his life
Is a man that was robbed of his wealth
Is a man that was robbed of his wisdom
Is...

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He was just another foulmouthed saint
“halo” tilted jauntily to one side
wings tucked neatly into a dirt stained jacket

aura – lightly tinged with a sparkle of...

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He said, "Dad, I thought men were like Atlas, they bear the brunt of all humanity? They were supposed to do anything and everything?" Before...

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When my body shall lie still
Like a fallen wooden idol 
And all the air gone from my nostril
When I shall be planted, never to stir...

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Missing you
By Dalene Deale-Rowe

24 years in heaven, is where you live
How I wish it possible, a hug to give
Torn out my chest, my heart has...

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I knew you before you were born, but not what you would become.
I saw you open your eyes, for the very first time. 
I gave...

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A shinny light shone on the horizon
a lofty height further from the forensic
from the loins of wisdom...
wisdom from his loins..begetting mega-wisdom (s)

daddy,my buddy.
my "paddy"...my "caddy"
my...

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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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Your faithful presence, felt through all the years
our father's constant love brings grateful tears.

Without complaint, you worked hard to provide
though often tired, you listened as...

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Do you remember when we were small, so small?
All of us together in the years when Mom was still happy and He was still called...

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My father put a roof over my head
My Dad sheltered me with love

My father fed me
My dad sustained with knowledge

My father clothed me
My dad provided...

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