A Gift for Father’s Day
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Happy Father’s Day for the Most Important Man in Any Woman’s Life
As a tribute to fathers and father figures everywhere, I thought I would share some lovely poems for the men in this very special and important role. I hope you’ll enjoy them!
Share them with the fathers and father-figures in your life!
A Poem for My Father (96 years
old on Feb. 29, 2000)
By Sonia Sanchez
With exact wings
Your words sailed back into your throat. Could not fly forward.
Your mouth face startled by this autumn
Thunder went south again.
I had forgotten the salute of death, how it waits Militarily on the outskirts of our skin.
I had forgotten how death howls inside our veins.
O father, how much like a child again I felt as I ran down doctors painted on porcelain corridors.
O My father, as I breathed inhaled for us both,
I began to sing a song you sang when I was little without a poet’s name,
Afraid of all the shadows cremating my bones,Remember the nite,
The nite you said
I love you remember…I remembered your voice swollen in a ritual of words on
152nd Street and St. Nicholas Place.
Now I, daughter of applause, hands waterlogged with memory, asked for nothing more as I circled your hospital room, sequined with our breaths in an hour-glass of sound.
My Dad and I
By Phyllis C. Michael
My dad and I-we think alike,
He knows just what I mean
Before I even say a word
He reads, well, in between.
My dad and I-we like to fish
Or build a model plane,
Or fix a broken chair or two
Or just a windowpane.
My dad and I-we know the score
Of every single game;
Sometimes he’s really busy, too
But he takes me just the same.
My dad and I-we go swimming too,
Each year and sometimes twice.
My dad and I-we do everything;
My dad-he’s really nice.
Fathers are Wonderful People
By Helen Steiner Rice
Fathers are wonderful people
Too little understood,
And we do not sing their praises
As often as we should…
For, somehow, Father seems to be
The man who pays the bills,
While Mother binds up little hurts
And nurses all our ills…
And Father struggles daily
To live up to “HIS IMAGE”
As protector and provider
And “hero or the scrimmage”…
And perhaps that is the reason
We sometimes get the notion,
That Fathers are not subject
To the thing we call emotion,
But if you look inside Dad’s heart,
Where no one else can see
You’ll find he’s sentimental
And as “soft” as he can be…
But he’s so busy every day
In the grueling race of life,
He leaves the sentimental stuff
To his partner and his wife…
But Fathers are just WONDERFUL
In a million different ways,
And they merit loving compliments
And accolade of praise,
For the only reason Dad aspires
To fortune and success
Is to make the family proud of him
And to bring them happiness…
And like OUR HEAVENLY FATHER,
He’s a guardian and a guide,
Someone that we can count on
To be ALWAYS ON OUR SIDE.
I hope this Father’s Day has been filled with joy for you!
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Blessings!
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