February 19, 2021
by Jem Croucher
Look at me now Pops, I’m an older man now
I’m past sixty, the years have flown by
That slap in the face
has long turned to grace
yet still on this day I will cry
Nineteenth of February nineteen seventy-four
etched in my mind for all time
The day that you left
leaving family bereft
although all these years later we’re fine
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May 28, 2018
by Nick Anthony
The full moon rises,
Glistening like a fresh silver dollar
As Mother Earth lets off steam
And unbuttons her stifling collar
To feel the breeze of the Sun’s departure.
Eagerly I wait at the window
For my moon to come home,
So I can feel the breeze of his sigh
As he sits on his leathery black throne
And watches me with contentment from on high.
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May 22, 2018
by Stephen
I start to count them and stop
Not because there are too many
But because I cannot hold them
Accountable; the code sparkled
From their eternal glow calls
Me to be accountable to my life:
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May 9, 2018
by Stephen
Every moment gives a gift
An opportunity to see
A yellow butterfly lands
On the pool deck to give
The daughter a smile
She seemed to have lost.
Yellow Butterfly (for Emma)
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May 8, 2018
by Stephen
Son
Today with oil, water and breath
I watched the priest
Open the soul of a boy
To God.
As
Mine
Was
A long time ago
And many sins past.
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September 9, 2017
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
wealth and fame
are won and lost
lovers
come and go
joy and sorrow
alternate
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August 17, 2017
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I am a believer
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August 8, 2017
by Nick Anthony
When I was young, you were invincible.
You were like Superman, but better
Because I had never seen evidence
Of a Kryptonite that might harm you.
You seemed to effortlessly
hold back the dangerous flood,
And fearlessly protected me
From ever encroaching reality.
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June 19, 2016
by Morgan

Dedicated to Loving Fathers Everywhere as I remember my own and the many Sweet Dances we Shared…
I Love and Miss you Dad!
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February 19, 2016
by Jem Croucher

I think that now you would be proud
of all I have achieved
But on that day in seventy-four
I merely felt deceived
I was fifteen then and, waking rude
my sunshine went away
with suits upon the doorstep
on that dark and painful day
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January 4, 2016
by Rachael

after the cremation
forgetting the name of his
favourite rose
~
image courtesy visuology.com
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May 10, 2015
by Jem Croucher
For fourteen years in thirty-nine
You gave me life and more
But God had other plans in mind
When you left in seventy-four
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March 11, 2015
by Jem Croucher

In a blue suit that I hated
I threw a flower to the wood
And felt the chill of March around me
By that deep hole where I stood
Fifteen years I’d known him
But his shell was now below
Wondered how I’d manage then
As at the time I didn’t know
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February 20, 2015
by beeseeker
I am (the only)
Sundaughter-child
Of Father Never-Still River
And Mother Daytime Sky.
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December 16, 2014
by Venkat

every day is a child
born through us
be it a man or a woman
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September 2, 2014
by Seafarrwide

Image from artlimited
Poem by Wendy Norman (Seafarrwide)
When I was born did you feel possession as crucial as each breath you take
I was just a babe, a mere mortal, sins unknown yet to make
You wrapped me in cotton wool with a halo of gold
I was the reason for you to live were the stories untold
But did you witness how you tangled your noose
Around my neck I was like a puppet never set loose
Bid to do as you dreamed, never to fail but be your second chance
You steered my rudder with powerful force without a backward glance
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February 1, 2013
by Devina

(via Pinterest.com)
For Poetry Challenge 2
He carries a whiff of diesel
Denim smeared, greasy to the touch
Beads of sweat cool on his sun baked face
Good shirts come home from the fields
With soft frayed holes and a scent of green
A sure thing to send Ma’s ire up
Added to the broken saucer and cup
The raggedy man,
A listener, a speaker,
Father mine,
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June 13, 2012
by willowdot21

A Quiet Man
He was a quiet man, he was a helpful caring man. Handsome in his youth a dashing man,a fighter for rights man. A union man, a fighting for the under dog man, a “I’ll do it if I can man” .
He met my Mum, a wooing man, a handsome flashing eyed Irishman. A black haired almost wild man, a stand up for what I am man. A good man to trust your life to and my Mum did, he was an out in the open man what see is what you get man nothing hid.
He worked hard he was a family man. A sturdy, bring home the wages man, a giver, comforter a lover man. A home maker man some one to carry the can man, a there until the end man.
He was a stern man, when you had done wrong, though he was a quick to praise man , happy to teach you a lessen in a song man. A teacher man,sometimes a preacher man an always there when it counted man.
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