Husband Father Poems

When the sun rises high, energy and life are vibrant in nigh.
The light shines over all, from the great divine fiery ball
It gives energy to...

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Meadow was born out of a long line of fiddlers
Her bluegrass roots showed out without apology
We were tapping our feet after the first three notes
Songbirds...

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Alone in this world
Alone in this society
Alone in love
Alone in life
Alone in fatherhood
Alone in my time of need
Nobody to help me
Nobody to care about what...

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The husband and father needed today,
Follows the Pillar of Fire by night, and Cloud by day.

His Chief Shepherd the Lord, provider of house and home.
He...

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Dad

I can't believe
Your here old man
You made it through the rough..

I love your
Laugh and chuckle..
For me that is enough.

But boy you've had a lifetime
And crammed...

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Mama please mama please where have you gone
 yet I still have a FATHER 
Daddy's Dear Daddy dear where have you flown
 yet I still...

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There in the corner of the living room 
on a loveseat meant for two 
now only resides one
there he sits, by a warm fireplace
its occupant...

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* It’s been three years, Dad, and it hurts like yesterday … I don’t know why I was the one to walk you home, but...

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I expected it with you, because you were suffering
I didn’t want it but it seemed a mercy
Of sorts

But now, when she wants to join you,...

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The pink polka-dot nightgown,                     ...

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Grappling with parenthood over the years. 
Battling and facing my responsibility fears. 
Celebrations and failures leading to tears. 
Many moving parts like out of sync...

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So little known of Mary's man,
Only that he was righteous, just.
Betrothal gone afoul of plan,
He sought divorce, discrete, no fuss.

Did you have doubts of your...

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His knowledge was his untapped wellspring,
After 93 years of learning anew;
He valued knowing something about everything, 
From construction & farming, to baseball & screws. 

Early...

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she crossed my threshold and went to his house,
my only daughter, wed and his dear spouse,
a girl once, a beautiful woman now,
history is witness to...

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if only the men, the husbands, the fathers, the brothers
could speak.

if only they could find the fortitude to force
the friendly flow of fierce vocables, the...

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