Father To Son Poems

My name is Cousin Paulie,
Average bloke in an average job,
Father to a daughter who was killed by a virus,
while neutropenic from chemotherapy,
Son to an 89...

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Let the people of the world say
Some of them say there ain’t no way in…
With all the troubles and turmoil in this day
Seems like there...

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Random thought

2.pm while dining at an eatery somewhere in Port Maria, crowded eatery , 
Lot of chattering around , youngsters, families, but a conversation perked...

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The job of a father

The reason we get married is to have children
With the woman that we fell in love with
To make a life with...

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When I die, take care of your mum, don't stand by my grave to cry
I see everything, they say that I'm dead, but I don't...

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Son…remember what we talked about before the earth began
How you would go and give your life to redeem fallen man
The time has come to leave...

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Splidgy splodgy, squishy and squashy
Time to find Dad’s old mackintoshy
Time to jump in the puddles so deep
To splishy and splashy, and cover his feet
In glorious...

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A father's love is shown no meter
fail it will not, no not a teeter 

A ray of sun the way it stands
a glass worn aged...

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Hello, dear Eldest Son,
and what are you feeling entitled to today?

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CliffNotes on Christianity.
You mean like Christianity for Dummies?

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No, no aspersions intended.
I'm wondering...
Maybe some context would...

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Get down son
Make yourself a man
First learn to earn
Before you love fun
Now down son!
Before comes the sun
Make yourself a man
In every way you can
Sweat ain't...

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A little boy and little girl waited patiently day and night on what would be the perfect gift.
They both longed for someone who could lift...

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The hues of autumn mix and meld
On trees where clusters of mistletoe dwell,
Shades of amber, scarlet, and gold
Call into mind some old stories Dad told.

Tales...

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Father To Son:  Part II
(Apropos The Visit—Part II)

When you left
soaring free
the lingering void sought
to shackle me
in the silent dungeon
of stoic grief.

Faith melted away remorse
and...

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Work hard,
Live well;
Wise words from a father to a son,
what happens to those words that a son doesn't hear;
guidance is revered as some sort of...

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The days are piling up
Like oak leaves in the fall
So many days ago
Since I felt your touch

Your pictures beckon me
So I reach for you through...

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~*~
“In the Living Years”
no one is perfect we are who we are
there’s no one reason or no perfect rhyme
divided by difference in a generation of...

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I gave you life
I gave you the means to live
I gave you an identity,
Through you my ancestry
and legacy will be traced.

You are my dreams
My aspirations,
My...

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FATHER TO SON...
(APROPOS A QUADRIPLEGIC SON WHO LIVED AND DIED BEAUTIFULLY)


In the stillness of your own
you taught us
the circadian rhythms of life
and its meandering flow
cascading...

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open my arms your blood flowing through me. fults are not yours,my loss is not you.
the greatest hope given a chance in you little one...

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I got in trouble because of my greed.
I was arrested because I sold weed.
I thought I was being smart, I thought that my Grass was...

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