Dad Jobs Poems

TO MY GROWN CHILDREN

For my four children I've been working
Almost every day
There was never enough time to play with you
There were baseball games, dance recitals
That...

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Christmas cards and credit cards
and lists of much to plenty.
It's choking Daddy half to death.
They think I'm made of money.

Give me this and I want...

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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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Getting a good slot 
You may have to play a lot 
When experience is fed 
Hours worked worried about reality debt 
You arrived noted as...

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I guess I will be a pharmacist. Why? 
My uncle is a pharmacist 
What do they do? I am not sure. 
Did you know they...

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I was the seventh child in a family of four,
the second born, do I need to say more?
Well perhaps I should fill in a few...

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I live in a concrete jungle,
with buildings in the place for trees,
and traffic noise in the place for wild game.

Dawn to dusk I trek with...

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THE WORLD AHEAD

One goes everywhere,
One sees everything,
But the cosiness of ones’ nest,
Is everywhere unseen.

Laughter and smile are still there,
But the hand of concern is nowhere.
I...

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The Easy Jobs
by Bob Moore

A job that should be easy, again has turned out hard
instead of moving forward one foot, I’m going back a yard
searching...

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When I was skinned

I made a little list-

Call it (Something Here) :

It started out,

'I am getting older,

what should I do? '

Like go on the road,

Actually...

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Your children can't find work
they wander the streets 
form up as groups 
those groups become gangs

people introduce drugs
if you get a child hooked on drugs
you...

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Sawing Firewood For My Dad, Again

"Saw them logs boys, saw them logs
 heat for the kitchen, heat for the halls
Winter is going to be so...

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You’ll never guess whom the cat drug in; have a day where you just couldn’t win?
He came strutting in, smacking his gum loud, dressed to...

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As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice,...

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