Father Family Poems

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"Brother from Another Mother, but the same Father!"
Russell Coleman jokes with me in Church (His Bride)
This weekend, we honor every mother, dear brother:
You once made...

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The photos stopped 
when you were 10 or 11.
Around that time, you started refusing to 
have your pictures taken.
A few candid shots are all I’ve...

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The room was dank and dreary
The past hung in the air
There was a scent of mildew
A smell of history was there
The paint was old and...

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Summer love, a man, a woman, conception, a new born 
Ring the bells, amplify megaphones, bugle the cow horn
 
The ceremony begins, baptism, cries, holy...

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MY FATHER-IN-LAW — A TRAVELING TRAVESTY

who rolled the dice...
how did i get my dad-in-law in the divorce…

as my husband’s checked out
due to the achoo dispensation...

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No thoughts, no consciousness
Echo the sound of strangled cry

Can't escape
Take my hand

The dark dungeons without the breath of life
Deeper than you can imagine

Can't escape
Take my...

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Daughter crime
hooking up with Father time
Both got incestuous, crooked desires in mind
Two thieves in a thug hug, 
secrecy intertwine conspiracy vine bind 
Mother brood 
raising...

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Rudolph Sperry was a ranch-owner’s son,
and rode hard for his Circle-S brand,
helping punchers herd cattle 'cross the plains,
in Nebraska’s western Sand Hill lands,
he wasn’t that...

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When I turned sweet sixteen, 
my old man, with visible spleen,
took me aside and said: Son,
I feel obliged to inform you on
a pressing fact of...

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Position of Family Physician

One day we did have to make a decision;
And God for people did create a position;
We did read;
Much in need;
He planned on...

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Heirloom events are often solemn occasions
Weddings, high school or college graduations
Grandfathers take sons or grandsons aside
To bequeath his pocket watch with pride

Slowly he'll raise the...

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Helping my father and uncles when I was ten,
felled a tree, on break then ready to go again.

I walked around the corner of the truck
as...

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I hear the baby laughing loud and clear,
She’s in the next room so very near,
I look to see that little face,
But there’s no baby in...

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I've had a good life; it's a cross that I bear,
For I know, there are many who've not fared as well!
I lived through my own...

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O, my little boy
So wondrous and so full of joy
Away from you, there’s a void
Can’t be filled

Child, father, man –
They’re all of the same plan
I...

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My father taught me to raise my children the right way
always have my hand out to my kids I will never turn away

I will help...

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Dale fell to the ground, shot through the chest,
in shock as Joel paced on up to him,
his last words were “Why?  Why did you...

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Joel just collapsed into the brown dirt,
clutching his face in both of his palms,
cried,”Running Moon, the day that you ‘died,’
was the day my life started...

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For all that day the frantic chase went on,
until evening’s gloom started to spill,
even in the middle of a warm August,
Yukon nights can give a...

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