Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 12, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for an expectant father who sees his father as the giant he will soon be.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Fathers are the giants of our lives,

Atlases who once held up our worlds.

They do not shrink as we increase in size,

However handsomely our lives unfurl.

Even when we know them for themselves,

Reducing them to their humanity,

‘Mid myth and memory we are still elves,

Still small beside the giants we still see.

Do, then, both enjoy your coming state

And know you will reprise your father’s fate,

Yearning for the giant you will be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathe8.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives