Death Father Poems

We are but patches in life’s quilt—
Tangled together,
Woven as one.
Pull on a thread,
Watch us unravel.

Ignore my thread, and I disappear.
Ragged, jagged knots.
Rocks in my fists.

Bound...

Read More

He wasn’t thirsty nor did he yearn for food 
For he had already found nourishment in Your words

He didn’t spend money on things that did...

Read More

The world, my son
is one big market
people buying, people selling
some winning, some just walking through.

I was once a loud voice in it
Trading dreams, chasing deals
but...

Read More

They filed his blood beneath a numbered case—
the marrow went to war without a call.
The VA counted cells, not what took place
in basements where his...

Read More

Sitting by the window and reflecting, on one bitter cold day,
The sky cloudy, the weather report predicted snow, 
The temperature outside 10 degrees, a little...

Read More

  Farewell! Farewell!
It’s time for my closing verse.
  How long the years
that bless and unkindly curse,
  till in a black wagon
 ...

Read More

Hope and revelation is within
You can see it around thou, You can feel it within thyself
The pearly gates open withn thou, Thou understands and knows...

Read More

Loitering around at the expense
of my parents back, 
I too wish to be at the resemblance 
of hardworking thumbs, 
those same fingers that sewed 
the...

Read More

A 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...

Read More

The arrival of his departure 
(A numb and cruel upheaval starter)
was an emotional core rupture;
a visual goodbye to my father.

I saw his final, last inhale
that...

Read More

dreaming daughter ascends starlit harbor....
to her father's biding love

he is as she remembered....jovial in the 
way he was on earth

they embrace in the twilight....stars fill
their...

Read More

What is a father? One might ask. He is a species that helps the female of that species to produce life of an offspring. And,...

Read More

haunt me as i haunted your life,
who was it that failed,
did you fail as a father,
or did i fail as a son.

the tears i shed...

Read More

Butting heads, locking horns
the difficult child of three
if anyone was causing grief
It was always going to be me,
a stubborn chip 
from a stubborn old block...

Read More

[Verse 1]
Well, hello there, Romeo — didn’t hear you knock
Waltzin' in like love ain’t got a lock
You've got big dreams and a borrowed car
And a...

Read More