Art Father Son Poems

   Dulcimer dewdrops
 paint the leafy canvas,
hungry mouthlings bobbing 
   a rambunctious sway 
   from
clear pleasure of impact to...

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Date:  January  2046

8:45 am  in the Damian Domaine 
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever...

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Canadian Ocean Gate


O beauteous land of mirth and Glee! 
O land of falls and seas and lakes!
Which shadows row in horrid nights
Which sorrow in Thee...

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There in the corner of the living room 
on a loveseat meant for two 
now only resides one
there he sits, by a warm fireplace
its occupant...

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Echoing all around
Beauty of Winter stream
Frozen droplets seen
Birds from the forest
Greeted our tourists
My Creator, my heart 
You are Master of fine art
Our harmony accords
Glory to...

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I gave my son a dollar bill from eighteen-hundred thirty two
    and a two-spot from that same year too
  The question...

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But like all memory, it fades as new ones are born
The memories rise to the surface and sink to the depth of obscurity

I remember all...

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A strike of a match would briefly carve
His weatherworn features
From the darkness full of his words 
Echoes from history of an exorbitant life
A face full...

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I remember nights on the south side porch 
After a full dinner & nothing on TV
We gather to sit talk and listen to cicadas cry
High
Into...

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of an dying autumn day.
The gentle breeze tosses
scarlet leaves before him.
…into the ember fire sky 

His thoughts drift,
a familiar voice is heard talking near.
…speaking of...

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Monday I am born 
Tuesday I learn to walk 
Wednesday I become man 
Thursday I am married 
Friday I become a father
Saturday I see my...

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My Son
The day you came I smiled
I laughed as I smiled
You are a baby, a baby from the womb
You have arrived in a place called...

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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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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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Child Of The Savannah 
(A Poem by Nwabuisi Chimezie Samuel ) 

I walked into my youth 
With bare foot. 
So I don't lose my way,...

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