Spring Father Daughter Poems

This is a translation from a Poem (Title - Niskriti) by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate philosopher poet (1861 - 1941) from India. The story successfully depicts...

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A New Life
When a baby is born, it's like a fresh spring day
Being a healthy one is what all parents pray 
The pain and struggle...

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My wife and I prefer hand-me-downs to new things in most cases, but then, we're antiques freaks - 


Lots o’ fog an’ kinda brisk that...

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March 30th of last year, was on a Saturday. 
The life I knew was about to change,  in such a major way. 

I was...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III




Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;

there is no time for a...

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I wish I was back there, winter’s chill gone
with the sun and my coconut curry 
soup. Breathing bready smells, gazing down on
the Dogwood trees on...

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Suddenly she is all grown up
Time to declare I am over the hill
as I hurtle down, filled with
gratitude; a spring in my step

I am a...

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Impossible mission for yours truly,
sans this dada to validate
those two most significant mentors,
no paternal biased trait,
(who I helped beget) enroute to great
adventures toward enormously

enviously exciting...

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pancakes and bacon served
under a big tent
at the east end of town
daughters hand-in-hand with fathers
people in line greeted like neighbors
conversation and laughter arise
a roaring bi-plane...

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Wishing for Spring when Mother Nature Sings
warm summer nights when stars twinkle in delight
But it's windy and cold with a threat of snow
another rainy day...

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I decided to have an Andy Griffith moment with Tyler and Violet last night and brought them outside to check out the once every century...

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I found myself lost in the past
I found myself lost in the future
I was looking around me, aghast
I had to take hold of the water

This...

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I circled around the park three times and continue journeying towards the west
On my first cycle I met a couple sitting on the corner watching...

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I.
Carter Gray was a retired marine,
who’d done two tours in Afghanistan,
discharged at thirty, he moved to Utah
to raise cattle on a big spread of land.

He’d...

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I’m looking at this picture of my daughter Ava 
someone took three years ago as she was watching me 
during the semifinals of our tennis...

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