Poetry: Fathers Day - by Sara Mcgrath

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by Sara Mcgrath

Created on: June 14, 2008 Last Updated: September 18, 2008

Memorial Day passed by
The day you died
I'm still reeling
From the enormity of loss
And then comes Father's Day
I feel it again
That loss
Still so fresh
Bittersweet
I feel like crying
Tears of gladness
Enormous gladness for having you
As my dad

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This poem is for you, dearest dad
Today is father's day but you are not here
You have left us to go to another world
But you
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by Maggie Tisbury

I see you

in my children's laughter

I smell you

in a passing tendril of cigar smoke

I hear you

in the blast of a Sousa march
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A memory has come along
Tugging at my heart,
A Father's Day from long ago
On a beach in California.

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Father's Day Prayer

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O Lord, we thank You for our dads

On this their special day.

May we remember
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by Lisa Miller

Daddy do you remember
The day that I was born
You took me in your arms forever
With a smile upon your face
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