Football Father Son Poems

"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."

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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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Now I Understand

Seventy low-humidity degrees
An ever-slight breeze
I am on dad’s back porch
His man cave was outside
He loved this screened-in porch
Fifty feet long by twelve feet...

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Half-Orphaned - A letter to a son from a father in heaven

Dear Son,

Sorry!
to leave you half-orphaned
to abandon you with my death

Sorry!
for not picking you from...

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Letters to you,

the undeniable,

the sanctimonious,

the one I will wait for...

No evil to fear,

no sweat to avow,

and nothing that I am not.


I wondered for years whether...

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Its a matchbox, its a monster truck
Its a game of hide and seek
Its the holding him while reading
As he gently falls asleep

Its the good morning...

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A Son's Tribute (spoken at my Dad's Funeral)

A quiet man,
A family man,
A proud to be a father man.
A handy man,
A lively man,
Not known to be...

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 Playing Football - A Children's Poem


There once was a lad from Baghdad

who sat in dad's Porsche, a fad.

He liked to play footie

with ball he'd...

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Match day is here, scarf around your wrist
Dad takes his lad the games never missed
Sea of red winds its way down the lane
Singing the songs...

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How I recall the day we saw
The running of the train
A booming voice filled all the earth
"Behold the great Ron Dayne!"

As did their forebears once...

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“Why do the Rams behave violently?”
The little boy queried of his father.
“They need all their might to fight the Jaguars,
But Jags are fast, don’t know...

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Two boys gathered hard green tomatoes
from their neighbors garden
This would be ammunition against 
unsuspecting cars 
We hid behind a stone wall
A brand new 1973 MG...

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