Long Fathers Poems
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I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
fathers, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
fathers, memory,
Form:
Prose
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
fathers, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
fathers, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
fathers, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor SaidNo, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...
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Categories:
fathers, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Prose
Victories For LoveThe problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral,
concern.
This primal problem of militarism by historic default
is that it is an intrinsically...
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Categories:
fathers, health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 107 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Festive Fountain Market JamboreeDate: January 2046
8:45 am in the Damian Domaine
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied
While still sleepy eyed checking
Supplies. So...
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Categories:
fathers, child, chocolate, confidence, family, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
fathers, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Hither, Thither, and YonOnce upon a time, there were two little villages, Rowling and Tolkien, that lived in peace with each other. Rowling and Tolkien had many, many children, some very young, others young, and a few...
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Categories:
fathers, children, conflict, family, fantasy, parents, peace,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 77“Who...what are you?” His gaze moved from Joulupukki to Lumi. Lumi offered,
“I am an elf of the Village Clan, and this is my companion Joulupukki.”
...
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Categories:
fathers, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Daily Show and TellDear Toni,
I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.
I'm also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I'm sorry for once having thought you...
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Categories:
fathers, family, health, humor, patriotic, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Multicolored HousesI find multicultural capital investment
socially healthier
politically wealthier
than more win/lose capital competitions.
Sociologists
may call this deep social communication capital,
so why don't natural scientists
discover naturally cooperative capital investments
is a long-winded way
of winding around
recognizing
and appreciating,
not depreciating,
multiculturing health power?
With...
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Categories:
fathers, health, integrity, passion, peace, political, power, presidents
Form:
Political Verse
February 29th, 2024February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
fathers, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Beg and UtilizeBEG AND UTILIZE
Nzongi Mwero
I strongly air my huge words,
I still call the entire world,
And also I write a message card,
That will heavily guide,
Those who are greedy.
Oh, let me tell you foreign charities,
From various countries,
Along with...
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Categories:
fathers, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Badboy MonotheistsWhere do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?
George Lakoff speaks of strictly straight stern paternalistic God the Universalist Fathers,
vertically Winning over an otherwise Loser, yet highly competitive, ecopolitical...
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Categories:
fathers, games, health, integrity, math, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
fathers, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Ending In a Deadly Minor KeySo here's my question for this dawning day,
like a WinWin ruminating message in a bottle
floating through a LoseLose climate sea
felt still foggy from last night,
some mysterious how now;
One of many
health related strategic WinLose issues
tuning out...
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Categories:
fathers, anger, anti bullying, dark, fear, green, grief,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 164-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: All the Little ChildrenDate: August 2051
The 3rd of August 2 morning time.
Holly had labor signals. Her and
Molly's accommodations were now adjacent. She buzzed the com. Nobody
Answered. She struggled to...
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Categories:
fathers, abuse, august, birth, birthday, celebration, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
MarlinoTwo, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.
Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...
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Categories:
fathers, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
A Journey Through Time Final Part RevisedNow as the years passed by everyone became so tired
the heaps of things scattered around became too much to bear
some benevolence was certainly grand but this was too much
the two felt unable to undertake ...
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Categories:
fathers, journey, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Epic