A place inside for Fathers
by Herb Orrell Father’s Day would have been pretty much the same if it hadn’t been for the mud swallows. It was during my second coffee that I first heard their morning chatter outside on the porch. Peering out the window I saw the two of them, giggling newlyweds: he, doting and chivalrous; she, radiant and graceful. I had been warned about mud swallows. My neighbor, the veterinarian’s wife, said they were messy, and once they settled...
Axial Grease Man
by Walter Stewart Mom needed help raising ten children You took us on jobs where Men brought water up from the earth They laughed and cussed at Each other in the Texas heat Lumbering tools bent deep Sweaty axial grease men Who shaped pipe, rope, Wrenches and steel Into surgeon’s wands Coaxing the nectar upward Men who long knew The value of Aqua Dulce Before it was bottled up Back when water and childrem flowed free Men who knew how...
A Father’s Love; a poem
by Shaky Shergill Not always shown but ever present A father’s love. Wrestled to the ground by a growing son A father’s love Tickling and laughing A father’s love Smiling and encouraging A father’s love Orders to do homework A father’s love Shouting to clear your room A father’s love Thinking about your future A father’s love Holding you close and kissing your forehead A father’s love Stepping back so you can follow your own path A...
Letting Go; a poem
by Richard Wiener What fathers bear when sons leave Beggars description. Empty rooms Still echo with the voices of the past. The vacant chair at table, silences That take the place of sharings With sons we loved so well, still love, But now in pain at their departing. Suddenly we’re old, or older at the least. Suddenly it’s only we, without illusions Of being young with them, playing that game. Sons’ leaving seems...
Father’s Day Open Post
For Father’s Day 2011 – you are invited to share from the heart about what comes up when you reflect on the Father, the Dad, the Sovereign energy in your life. What are you ready to bless about your Dad? What will you bless about yourself? What are you ready to commit to in your fathering, or in your modeling of the healthy sovereign? Have a story or a poem to share? Share it here! At the ManKind Project, we help Dads be...
FATHERS: A Literary Anthology by Andre Gerard
by Sarah McGinnis Writer Andre Gerard, who identified and named the new publishing term patremoir an “essay, poem, play or film built around memories of the author’s father,” has just released Fathers: A Literary Anthology. In it, essays by a diverse group of beloved writers, including Alice Munro, Franz Kafka, E.E. Cummings, Sylvia Plath and E.B. White explore the idea of fatherhood and all its ups and downs — the...
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