Father Growth Poems

FEAR NOT TO VISION

Fear not to vision
Trust to catch stardust from
Whence we came
Create a new World, woven
With Peace and Patience

Fear not the glaring blaze of...

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I was the scattered embers of what was,
a mirage of something that couldn't be.
And it bore a hole inside me, for twas -
it not for...

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I'm grateful for this moment in time
I'm grateful for my wife
her unconditional love, and beautiful mind
I'm grateful for my happy mood
healthy, cool bright
child who
gives me...

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Different worlds
Different times
Growing up
In our minds

Neither here nor there
Ambivalence reigned
Father ruled
Mother gained

No holding
No cuddling
Sin running
Reason befuddling

Sickness and disease
Chaos ordered in line
Six days left
To leave it...

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To The Love of My Life—My Daughter,

You can do whatever the heart desires

Though you may stumble, tumble, and fall

Rise! Like a phoenix from the fire

And...

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I am “A Lady in Waiting.” Throughout the earlier part and most of my life, I have pretty much done things my way, and some...

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Go please before the door, and let me in, let me in;
Keep my head above the waters I must swim, so swim;
Happy and joyous am...

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Life starts at birth, 
then it begins to unfold. 
As time passes, 
the world shows it's face. 
When we think of birth, 
we often think of a new born baby. 
Life...

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Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...

and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones 
subject courtesy senescence 
upon cremation reduced...

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Who is more the gardener?
The one who plants the seeds,
Or the one who tends to them?

I am tending to them now,
Although I did not plant...

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So, what is Beauty?

One may say
it is the rose

another, perhaps, would say
luscious lips, and a cute ski nose

a loving mother would say
definitely her children

a proud...

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Once when I was a child
My reins were held by my parents
This pony once led by their rants 

Now that my mustang is old
My reins...

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The ambulance ride only lasted
For 10 minutes.
Delilah was in Labor now
Experiencing strange labor
Sensations. They were orgasms
Dolly didn't want to admit that.
Most of both families swept...

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Consuming happiness to the point of no return, no return
I let the fires in my bosom burn on and on and on
Resuming on with my...

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Recall the bike trip to Tennessee Valley
Remember the boat made of driftwood
I held in my hand the salty wet sand
How sand slips between fingers
How much...

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