Importance Father Poems

The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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Grandma Sews

Some yarn, a bit of ribbon, 
a flour sack, and loads of love... 
these are the materials
that made the dress I wore
the day I...

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When I was young I didn’t quite understand my shoulders,
“Shoulders!” I would scoff. 
“Why they’re just here to help hold up my head
and to keep...

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I treasure the memories of your guidance,
Your gentle advice, always aware of my feelings.
You took the place in my heart of my absent father.
You always...

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Small, Medium At Large Units...

Define paradigm since time 
immemorial does find
me defied, electrified, and generated
fascination within my mind,
despite spacious essence invisible to blind
people, or even...

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THEIR SPECIAL MOMENTS

Recall hours you, felt wasted 
watching something on T.V.
Not really important to you,
something “they”… wanted to see?

 As Mom, you wanted time to...

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since the grim reaper stole me mum
   words my recourse to express
   how fateful symbiosis
   ma pop got snagged...

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Daddy has gone missing
Lost his space at the dining table
Found it at the bar table
He will be home unstable
He staggers to the door unaware of...

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Daughter more precious than yet to know
Daughter mirror of wife with whom I sow
Sow new love of my life
Sow a princess with a queen
Queen you...

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I recently read a beautifully written article 
By a father who suddenly recognize how the excess time he spends with technology 
Has negatively affected his...

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"Daddy's girl"

sewn on my pink and lace nightgown

Mom popped it over my head

as she cooed,  "Daddy will be home soon."

She told me that story...

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Some believe that many names is a 
sign of stature, of importance.
How appropriate Tata that you are called
father, well as all those other monikers

Father of...

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I’m sure that home to many has a different meaning.
It depends what kind of life
 they’ve been receiving.

There are those with memories of hurt and...

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A baby born in Bethlehem
Was born to be King of the Jews,
But the Jewish people knew him not;
To them it was unwelcomed news.
The Magi found...

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He oozed charm, this aging lothario.
Gallantry was his middle name.
Yet, he lived in the past
in the glory days of football wins
and cheerleaders…
denying his saggy abdomen
blind...

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