Courage Father Daughter Poems

Late evening March 2045

The Teenagers were adventurous 
They were venturing.  DJ and 
Damali Trech were both 18 years 
Old. The Copy Cat Club was...

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fack
feck
fink
fock
funk...

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He went to war each morn
Armed with thermos and lunch pail
Gearldine wasn’t his firstborn
As a girl – just a tomboy with a pigtail

He knew her...

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Dear Father, mine. 

I ran away from bad. 
I took my children with me.
I found a place to run to. 
It was an empty castle...

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I was outside her house as I open the gate 
walking through the trellis
 I approached the steps
 I look up and I sigh 
As...

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I was little
My dad called me
Medusa
I owned
Feral hair
Curls 
Snaking
Untamable
Fierce
Growing independent
In any direction
Like me
He said

He said it 
With pride
And I believed him
Why wouldn’t I
He was my...

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My daughters, I’m so very proud of you.
You have grown to become, fine young women.
Let not your hearts or lives be ruled by men.
Stand fast,...

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Rejoice thee
To the holy spirit
As I have come out of the shadows
And there are five of those
Feel them

The clarity of confusion
Leads to be victories
Which is...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Never saw anyone with a brighter smile,
a quicker wit.
Mundane chores were joke fodder;
You convulsed at your own folly,
Marked the hours by chuckles
Grim labors lightened,
In the...

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I’ve taken the lowest road most of my life 
Mixed my madness in a spoon and I took the ride
Hit rock bottom head first then...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV



Neglect
by Michael R. Burch

What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II



All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch

for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

Grandfather,
now in your gray...

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As far back as she can remember…whenever her memories stir…
her heroes came from the pages of children’s books her dads would read to her.

When they...

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Sanctuary

Crawl into my sanctuary, 
And leave this world behind. 
Open up your heart, and let me in,
Then close the door of your mind. 

Wrap yourself...

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