Best Papa Poems

~ What Papa Taught Me ~

    Save, don't spend
      The good times will end

    Extravagance, for fools
      Frugality rules

    A penny saved
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C’mon Papa
The gauntlet tossed
The challenge…

Ten rounds
With a 2 year old

Speed vs stealth
Experience vs enthusiasm
Age vs agility

Castle builder vs the siege
Best two out of three cookies
Co-Co melon is not a fruit

C’mon Papa
Let’s go OUTSIDE…..

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You never said the words yet I heard them
all the time in your eyes as they crinkled
in laughter when you lifted me on your shoulders,
as I ran to you when you came with the dusk,
with the gold in sunset and silver at moonrise.

You never asked...

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Have you ever seen bullfrog green jump across a Lilly pad?
Did you ever see gold moth bathing in a moonshine bath?
Do you watch as teal raindrops bless and baptize the stream?
Will you hear the wood windmill song it sings each spring?

I walk real close to...

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~ Papa ~


Dawn broke uneasy o'er damp, dreary lane
Fish markets open, the merchant a-bustle
Hawking his fresh catch to eke out a gain
Daily routine, one of stressed, ceaseless hustle
Perils of prepping each fish for display
Callouses, cuts and old scars that he'd hide
Leathery skin soaked in brine...

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On that unhappy morning
The sad sun refuses 
To shine on earth
The sky grumbles in pains
Just to announce the news

Sorrow and agony flit pin me
When I felt the bitter taste of death
The sour crisp wine 
I hold him at high esteem
Oh! Death 
Why stretch thou 

Thy...

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Pillar of the home, backbone and strength
Astride, sitting on mama's needs
Providing, caring for the kids
Always working, caring less for rest....

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The first guy who kissed me by my lips
Tickled me down to my fingertips
Careful to handle me with every grip
Selfless love without a director's script

You are my first ever boyfriend
Guarding me, every now and then
Always ready to mend and defend
''My ideal man'', you set the...

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She twirls round and round,
In her yellow princess gown,
Her eyes all aglow with delight.
On her head sits a crown,
Plastic jewels all around,
A charming, adorable sight.

"Papa, dance!", she demands,
And he gladly takes her hands,
Twirling her around the floor.
Her laughter resounds,
And her joy knows no bounds,
As she...

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I’ve placed it in the most visible place
This old photo of black and white
Taken in 1943, the edges worn and frayed  
Papa, Mama, and Winnie, eyes so bright 

Though one by one they’ve all gone
Each leaving a legacy of love and faith
And while sweet...

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New Papa Adam
     Saint Paul describes Jesus or Father Christ
     As the new Papa Adam...

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by Gilbert Mapengo Mwanguku

Why so soon Pa?
I thought you should have been patient
Without being a patient on the hospital bed
You could have waited for a little while
To see me grow the seeds you bestowed in me
And let them glow to the world all over
But you...

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My Mama and my Papa. They're good and kind, pure and refined. 
Sixty-three years together, their loves become genuine.
Like sweet expressions of art; Papa a poem and Mama a song.
With me, they share their wisdom. I listen and see their words take wing.
This is their...

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Before his scars
Before his umbilical unsevered
Before the hurricane season
Papa made me proud.

Mama once spoke of comforts
His hands spinned
He and mother were in love
She lend me her mahogany gift
He carved smooth for her,
Papa made me proud.

I loved him in spite of nine fingers
One was severed on...

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There comes a time 
in the life of us all 
when we're no longer hindered 
and appreciate the small
Like birds of childhood to recall

When papa would sit 
near the barns swinging door
To teach us their colors 
and what Protection is for
They'd chirp and sing and...

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