Dad Ode Poems

I wish your heart had not been broken, your spirit crushed, so much unspoken. 

One day, I’ll walk again by your side.
We’ll amble through the...

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Mere words cannot express
The depths of my respect
And how I mourn the fact that he's not here.
His open, honest smile,
His friendly country style,
Of course his...

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When I was younger, I have often wondered
Why is the eighth month not called October?
Was geometry wrong 
When it named the octagon,
Or was this a...

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a poem …

is a story unto itself -
an amalgam of glyphs and syntax
arranged with carets and diacritical marks
and woven with creative purpose
to paint with phrase...

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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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Dad,
We may be apart,
But not by heart,
We may have our differences,
But I will always be your princess,
We may lose hope,
But we know not to elope,
We...

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I watch her even now-running,
Toward unknown paths, forever in a hurry,
With tears streaming down the eyes,
Always pretending to be tireless.

So was the mother and so...

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I was robbed! She said
Every brain in my head!
They came in the night
Stole my gray matter bright

I had nothing to add
as she is quite mad
a...

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As we sat around the table drinking our glasses of tea 
My father wanted his bottle squeezer, so he asked for it, from me 
As...

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You weren't there.
You aren't here.
You didn't help me,
When I needed a bandaid.
When I needed a hug.
When I needed my dad.
I came to you,
You blew me...

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There’s a load of dust and sweat pulling my ole tired mussels 
           down
 ...

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In his mid-30s but still a boy

Given $14.50 an hour and 12 hour shifts
Six days a week

His driver’s license confiscated
For five slung beers over a...

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DAD: Dear And Dearmost
           (An Ode) 

O Captain! My Captain! 
In my life, you are...

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I pray for my last thoughts to prevail with triumphant bliss, vanquishing  regret angst; and verily abounding with thanksgiving for the following:

GOD-ALPHA AND OMEGA...

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Sitting here, replaying that day you went away,
I couldn’t help but wonder,
Why all of a sudden?
Why that way?
Were you really that tired you chose to...

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