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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
no rhyming - poetry or prose
Ended June 17, 2017 • 25 Entries • Created by Finder
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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
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Cover image for post Momentary Angel, by Finder
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Finder
• 232 reads

Momentary Angel

My father

who never told me

he loved me 

his whole life

looked up at me

as I pushed his wheelchair

the day before he died

and said

"You are my angel."

That was enough.

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
no rhyming - poetry or prose
Cover image for post Father’s Day, by B27321
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B27321
• 587 reads

Father’s Day

Father

a Word

I Have

Heard

Many Times

Though

the Meaning

Defies me

Or Perhaps

Has

Defined me

For It

Has

Plagued

my Life

Painting

the Canvas

Green

With Jealousy

For

a Life

Never Meant

To be

a Discarded

Seed

a Weed

#B27321

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
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katofaragon
• 308 reads

When a Star Dies

Your molecules bounced around your skin, an aura of anxiety and too much... everything. You radiated sunlight and radioactivity, lighting my world and mutating it. My Gemini dad - the Janus two-faced god of my childhood - I loved you and wanted to punch you in equal measures. You pushed me to the outer limits of myself. Made me achieve - goading, praising, berating, manipulating the best and the worst of out me. Because I am your daughter, kryptonite born of your own D.N.A. We were addicted to each other, I was your heroine and heroin. Now I'm a junkie still spiraling through withdrawal sixteen years later. My skin itches for your intense hugs, my mind crashes for one more debate, and my heart feels cut out. A cookie cutter dad shaped hole slowly bleeding out. When a star dies, it takes the universe with it. 

#challenge #fathersday #complicatedlove #grief

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
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SelfTitled
• 146 reads

Borderline Personality Disorder

I don't know what to give you this year

and if I try something from the heart, you'll hate it

it's like I'm dealing with two people

a Jekyll and Hyde

and I don't know how to react

to those outbursts or raised hands

that send me sobbing in panic attacks.

...

Let's just say

things were different

how they were two Christmas's ago

maybe six years in the past

I'd know what you want

and we'd be okay.

...

But you kinda forced me out the house today

and told me to do something stupid

and to never come back here

and you know what's funny?

That stupid thing would have been the best Father's Day gift

what you've always wanted

me gone forever

even if it means me scattered in pieces on the road somewhere.

...

Oh yeah,

let's not forget

you made mom think I'm crazy

thanks.

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
no rhyming - poetry or prose
Cover image for post He is Delta, by MClarice
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MClarice
• 189 reads

He is Delta

He lives for them 

He works for them

He breathes for them

He will one day die for them

But not today

Life is more than

Precious for him

Their lives are Precious

Even when he is in pain

He works through it

For Them

Pain is not Permanent

But Love is

Their love for him

Lifts him up

He Rules his Domain

They respect him

They Fuel him to be Great

He works until his body

Says, “STOP.”

He wouldn’t Change his

Choices

He breaks his back

Every Day

For Them

And he is the happiest

Man alive

He accepts it all

Without Hesitating

Because this is

His Domain. His Home

He is more than a

Working man

He is a Husband

And a Father

He Builds this Life

For them and only them

His love is unparalleled

He is Delta

Forever Protecting. Always There.

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
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Clarity
• 128 reads

To You, Dad

Thanks, Dad, 

You were great and always am. 

Thanks. I thank God for such a good Dad as you.

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
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EstherFlowers1
• 198 reads

Thanks for getting it right Dad.

My Dad taught me that anything you need to know about life can be found in Nature documentaries, Dr.Who and Star Trek. 

I'll always be grateful.

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
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ccfanforever
• 108 reads

The Voicemail

Late night

Early morning

Eyes open halfway to the morning light

Squinting, I turn over

Hearing high pitched familiar voices from the other room

My children needing me as always

But today I want extended sleep

To close my heavy lids and

Drift off

Again

Instead, I rise slowly

And stretch.

Following my children bounding down the stairs

My lead feet lead to the kitchen to retrieve my black screen, sleeping phone

I wake it gently, scrolling past images of last night

Fun

But then my world crashes with the look of one icon

A simple text, reveals something deeper.

Then voicemail.

Sister’s voice trembling, stuttering to get the words out…

Dad.

Dead.

Autopsy.

Phone drops.

Body drops.

Shutter the thought.

Where did you go?

And now I wish I had stayed in bed forever.

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Father's Day is coming soon...write about your father.
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Cover image for post 1935- 1 December 1998, by Vyxyn
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Vyxyn
• 127 reads

1935- 1 December 1998

Native American Cowboy bronc buster

Known in certain circles as the Coyote

The charming one, the trickster, thief

Stealer of hearts, shape shifter

World drifter, womanizer.

HEARTBREAKER.

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Emilyandcompany
• 108 reads

My mom is both to me

There's nothing much to him. Just brown, curly hair; deep, brown, dull eyes; tan, soft skin. He abused my mom, tortured her, isolated her from her family, got her pregnant, then tried to kill me before I was born. He never came around after I was born. I never had a father figure.

So I guess, in a sense, my mom was my "dad" as well as being my mom. She took both roles as her own. And now that she's gone, I lost both parents in one swift motion.

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