Summer Father Daughter Poems

I saw Pop sitting just outside the veranda, slumped over in his wheelchair, his limp left arm tied to the chair’s railing.  He looked...

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#Here WE are, There WE were...

I AM Your Seed. 

Today, I won't UNRAVEL the Damaged Weeds...
There's An ABUNDANCE Of New Ones That Multiplies At OUR...

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A deer hunter’s daughter

#1

She illuminates the clock with her laughter,
loves her instagram her tic toc and her saunter,
she goes nowhere near disaster,
she’s got no ear...

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“Santa Anna Wind”.   

                  © London...

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I close my eyes, as time drifts away, upon a tune of yesterday
to hear the songs of glory sung, beneath the wanning moon 
He stood...

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I Love You, Daddy
                     ...

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Here's the deal, folks...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this...

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So well loved by their children.
Our life coaches in how to play
this intricate game of life.
Cleverly guiding us on this highway 
with directions.
Remember your Dad...

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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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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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Oh my dog, another yesterday (May 23rd, 2020) spent inside

Anomalous earthling inhabited 
mancave quarantined
cocooned gamesomely 
knowingly protected travesty
impossible mission sidestepping, 
thwarting, zapping
eventuality, inevitability, 

opportunity utilitarian...

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Her father was a gardener his shoes were never clean
They were always brown and dirty…which helped his thumbs stay green.

She remembers watching him with his...

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"I look at Uncle Roger as a blessing to our family, for he taught our family to view all people with more humanity." (loosely quoted,...

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"19 Davenport"



Spitfires lined in regimental row
Amberley in Autumn
fuel burns on the runway
mirages burn slow

Wings counted

His Adjutant's pad 
counts dollars and time, 
cold and sharp, he...

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Strong as a mountain,
Mild, like the summer breezes;
Missed, like the rainbow!...

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