Husband Father Daughter Poems

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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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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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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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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I know it is my wedding day
but I need to study the sharks a bit longer
Her mother left her then.
Her sister kept harping for a...

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Learning a heart beats makes life go fast
My heart beats twice as fast as you think
and half as fast as I remember


When the rainbow came...

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Free as a mockingbird singing

No kids in sight and unmarried

Had one husband, but now none

Colleges broaden my horizon

Learning about the world

Heartache and heartbreak

Lost in the...

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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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A daddy on his daughter's wedding day...
       to paraphrase the famous author,
       ...

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In Sickness and In Health
By Jayson Willever

I met her twelve years ago, her beaming smile as bright as the sun.
With glittering eyes the shade of...

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Fall is here again with the  
Saturday morning routine of paper and coffee.
A chance to sit and breathe,
halfway there....

Remembrances come unbidden
of mother lying on...

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Immigrant of past he took to the soil like a neophyte soldier 
protecting each tomato and basil plant with his bare hands 
he showed no...

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Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
(thus forever experiencing craving to eat cheese)

Nothing but gridlock traffic
(far as thee eye could see)
heading east on Schuylkill...

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Eden Liat Harris – I Praise

Twenty two years ago
     December twenty second,
two thousand eighteen
"star student" born
this papa (and most
  ...

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Argh resolution between
     self and eldest
     dear daughter more remote,
now then locating

     a...

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