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Open Poetry #42

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gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

0 posted 2008-04-16 01:15 PM

April, 1980

I bore your heavy toolbox, Father.
Now I am one of the silent bearers
Descending the steps to the waiting hearse.

You are as heavy as earth crushing my heart,
But I’ll not be so foolish to cry, not now, not here
In this sunlit day turned inside out!

I’m still a boy, Father, and I’ll be brave.
My back is stiff and straight, my chin hard as stone.
Ah, but my heart is soft and bleeding—
All hearts will bleed this bitter blood;
I am not alone . . .

Seoulair
Senior Member

since 2008-03-27

Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea

1 posted 2008-04-16 01:23 PM

A poem like this, it made me cry!!!!

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

2 posted 2008-04-16 01:28 PM

Thanks, Seoulair, for sharing your feelings with me; it means so much as I pay homage to my father in the month of his passing.

Art

Seoulair
Senior Member

since 2008-03-27

Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea

3 posted 2008-04-16 02:10 PM

It was truly beautiful done.

shyvl
Senior Member

since 2008-04-11

Posts 531
texas, usa

4 posted 2008-04-16 02:23 PM

What a wonderful tribute to your dad. May his memories bring you peace. Thanks for sharing.
sharyn

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

5 posted 2008-04-16 02:31 PM

Thank you sharyn, and may the sweet zephyr bearing peace be with you always!

Art

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6 posted 2008-04-16 07:30 PM

Gilead,

This is a nice poem about a good father.

Bobby

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