Birthday Dad Poems

Hey Dad!

Hey Dad! Is that you knocking at the door outside?
I'm excited to let you know how great was my first horse ride.
Mom was waiting...

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I celebrated my father's birthday this last April 4th, 2025
He would have been 75,
Yet 7 years ago, a white butterfly laid him to rest, with...

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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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Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffocation.

a midnight...

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Hungarious herbanamed hairchinned humanoid!
This tungstanesk triumph – to some thanatoid…
Mathematicos marvel: mention “nontotiet!”
But Basil-based bullters bothered? Outbleat???

For functioning fully at family functions,
requires restrained raconteurial unctions.
Propensities/properties...

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It's twenty fifth of May
Alas, you're miles away from me

flash back of mosaic memories 
when i was in your sight
brings back scents of home 
exuding...

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   Happy Number 110, Dad
     Thanks to you I can recall
   Life before the Internet
  ...

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January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date...

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Dad steps back into this room.
Today is his birthday,
soon to be his wedding anniversary.
The day before yesterday marked
the date of his engagement.

Yes, this is Dad,...

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I was not able to write poems for a long time now
And on this dawn my thoughts of you urge me to write one
Papa, ...

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You were a country boy who was raised in the sticks.
If you hadn't died, today you would have turned 76.
Your cancer took a turn for...

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Many times, I stared at it from my bedroom. Every time I looked at it, it sent chills down my spine, and it rose the...

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He is my BOMBOM; 
My lovely boy with a heart of gold;
Ever cheerful and down to earth.

He is my lovely Boy, through thick and thin.
Ever...

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I didn't often get a birthday present,
Just a cake and a card my Grandma had sent.

But this year Dad came in from the cold,
He walked...

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Now that you walk the earth, 
we await your story dear child

Were you sometimes seated in there 
in a floating dream curving a path 
like...

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