Daughter Fathers Day Poems

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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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV



Neglect
by Michael R. Burch

What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a...

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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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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his...

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Why are we here?
my oppositional daughter 
defiantly asks.

Because we're not over there?
her appositional dad
too often
and frustratingly
responds.

Sogyal Rinpoche writes
"To embody the transcendent
is why we are here."
I...

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I had to learn to be still - it was a hard discipline, for me.
Impatience is my curse, it’s the underbrush fuel of my anger.
Unanswered...

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I think about you often, you were the first
man that I ever truly loved.
I never doubted how much you loved 
me.
You were a big part...

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always there for me 
from the moment I was born ~ 
my father my friend...

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Fatherhood holds great pivotal power:			
To lift or let down, bringing laughter or frowns.		
Your words have potency, proven by deeds.		
Do what you promise and plant for...

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As far back as she can remember…whenever her memories stir…
her heroes came from the pages of children’s books her dads would read to her.

When they...

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Daddy comes everyday when the twilight
Bifurcates the light into shadows
Like a miscreant, grasshopper
Intrudes into the cracks of walls
Mom became a vociferous loudspeaker
Alcohol staggers inside his...

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What is a father, you ask?
A father is a man, who is strong
Strong for the people he loves;
And a person in your eyes, who never...

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Just like always
He love sitting in the room alone for long
Looking at the reflection of his face in the mirror
Asking himself through his eyes with...

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