Growing Up Son Poems

An Amazing Son
 I wouldn’t trade you for the world.
 I enjoy spending time with ya.
 All my belongings will be yours one day.
 You...

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Now he speaks with words so clear,
His aims increase with every year.
He’s growing up with height and grace,
Yet, gives us all the same embrace.
The world...

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The Lie

I am an insect waiting to be squashed!

I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt  
wait...

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Siddhartha (The Buddha) 
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch

In the house-shade,
by the sunlit riverbank beyond the bobbing boats,
in the Salwood forest’s deep shade,
beneath the...

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Detest away.
Whatever you say.
Have it your way.
Who cares anyway?

It doesn’t matter if it’s true.
It’s what you believe… you.
Words from mouths. 
No matter how it sounds....

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Going through a closet,
I was quite surprised to find
Several shopping bags of t-shirts
That my son had left behind.

While looking at them, one by one,
I realized...

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Their toys are all strewn across every room
Each soon to be broken or lost.
Their books are forlorn, all tattered and torn
In the corner where they...

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You were a heathen 
a tormenting toddler 
now a grown young man...

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My two sons will always be part of my life
I had always watched them with that special drive
When your kids were born, I looked into...

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TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust...

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Mother said to carry Dad's little green luggage,
Godzilla my foe, I can do a step not a hundred,
Mother said to put in you--that, it's all...

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Out of the blue on this summer day
Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake
Sure what the hell and that...

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Happy Father's Day to you and David
I can't even tell you in words
How I miss you all
I hope everyone in the family is doing great
I...

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I am so proud to have my son growing up right next to me
Standing so tall and majestic for all the world to see
Raising him...

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Mom’s Advice For Me
Miracle Man Tom Wright
Mothers Day 2024

Our mom was one of ten children. Her parents were farmers at a time when it required...

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