GREAT DAYS OF YOREGREAT DAYS OF YORE
My father was a plumber and more.
He is gone now with much forlorn.
I miss his advice and lore.
A leak sparked memory
of those days of yore.
Advice I seek
to fix my
aching
heart.
...
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Categories:
12th grade, father, memory,
Form: Nonet
Gloomy international watersLet sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons
How will I lay my aching head at night?
Isn’t it how I’ll wake up young again?
I’m a sailor heading to international waters
Fuel in my belly...
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Categories:
addiction, depression, father son,
Form: Free verse
An amazing familyIn a world that spins both fast and wide,
There’s one sweet place where hearts abide.
Not built of brick, nor stone, nor gold—
But love and laughter, strong and bold.
A family, stitched with threads so tight,
That even storms can't dim their light.
With arms that hug, and eyes that see
The best in you, and let you be.
They fight...
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Categories:
father, fathers day, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Father I praise you holy nameFather I praise you
Holy name
You are worth to be
Praise
Also I hope you keep me
Alive every day
Because I hope to be
Alive every day
I just want to be
A part
Of you life
Every morning I
Wake up with the Winter blues
Can you please Father
Remove the Winter blues
From my life
Also Father don't think
I am a liar
Because that is not me Father
I...
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Categories:
father, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Happy Father's DayTo the man who stood so tall,
Who picked me up with every fall.
In life’s loud storm or silent pain,
You stood like shelter in the rain.
When nights were long, and hopes ran low,
You still believed and let it show.
You taught me how to fight, to stand,
To build my dreams with steady hand.
Behind your silence was endless...
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Categories:
11th grade, family, father,
Form: Rhyme
My 46th Father's Day
On my 46th Father’s Day
I’d finally have my say
For I’d heard the pleasantries before
they all seemed like cliches
Ties...
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Categories:
father, fathers day, giving,
Form: Couplet
YOU WILL KNOW YOUR DADYou will know your dad
when you too became a dad!
You shall feel glad
when you realize, he was your launch pad!
You will appreciate his wisdom
when you shoulder responsibilities of the kingdom!
You will realize his care
when he was dissolved into the air!
You will dearly miss him
when alone, against the tides of life, you swim!
You shall...
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Categories:
dad, emotions, family, father,
Form: Couplet
Happy Father's Day From A Grateful DadTo each of my children please know I love you.
If you weren't my children, I don't know what I'd do.
As babies and infants you brought me so much joy.
Playing make believe with me as we played with your toys.
Though I must admit changing diapers weren't my style.
But you each got me through it with your...
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Categories:
9th grade, appreciation, father
Form: Rhyme
REMEMBERING MY FATHER'S HANDSMY FATHER'S HANDS
I remember my father’s hands as a plumber’s hands—fiercely strong, calloused, rough, knuckle-battered, and dirty after a long-day’s work. Those hands shoveled; unclogged drains and toilets; repaired leaks; and installed pipes, commodes, and bathtubs. Those hands provided.
I remember my father’s hands as a fisherman’s hands—perfectly patient, tenacious, self-confident, and unwavering as he...
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Categories:
12th grade, dad, father,
Form: Haibun
In Your StudioI’m on your lap
in a photo I no longer have—
a toddler with a borrowed brush,
my hand caught mid-daub
on your canvas.
It was staged, of course—
your painting for a calendar
on the easel in front of us
like the month you gave me
a tool of your craft
and I mistook it
for permission—
but my brush didn’t
paint like yours.
Sometimes I wonder
if you...
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Categories:
art, childhood, father, growing
Form: Free verse
CATCH OF THE DAYCATCH OF THE DAY
Today is Father's Day. So I wrote this string of Haikus as a remembrance of my dad whose favorite past time fishing. He was a fisherman extraordinair!
dawn by the river
daylight has barely arrived,
mist dances gently
morning reverie
how perfectly the songbirds
fill the silence
old flat-bottom boat
his rod and torn fishing net –
father’s calloused hands
the...
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Categories:
12th grade, father, fishing,
Form: Haiku
BE THE FATHER
Fathers…
on this Father’s day…and, for that matter, every day
may we do our best to be…
as extraordinary a father
as our children imagine
and need us to be.
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Categories:
fathers day,
Form: Rhyme
A Father Seed O' Lord Water MeA Father Seed ( O' Lord Water Me)
I am a Seedling oh! Lord water me;
You planted me in a vessel;
I'm yours, your energy;
O' Lord water me;
And I'm in the the desert heat;
O' Lord water me;
Love made me
Grace saved me
Father planted me
I am graced and loved
A chosen pick seed
Atop this heated earth
My flesh is not...
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Categories:
father, adventure, confidence, devotion, god,
Form: Lyric
The Duality of Fatherhooda secret d r e a m of peace
youth making dreamers of all –
amidst enemy F. I.R.E
p a s s I o n s rode H I G H –
he...
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Categories:
analogy, father,
Form: Other
Boyhood DreamsA wellspring of
Eternal joy
Unfolds within
A little boy
He schemes and
Dreams in
Fantasies
Things no man
Could ever be
But somewhere in
His youthful eye
The boy must know
The man will die
...
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Categories:
father, 2nd grade, boy, death,
Form: Free verse
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