June 14, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is fatherhood, in honor of Father’s Day, which
falls on June 19.
Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem from a child who was
abandoned by his father.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
I have you in my bones, the way I laugh,
The way I shrug, a moodiness that gathers
When I don't get my way. You are half
Of me, and yet I've never met you. It matters,
Oh, yes, it matters. You are in my smile,
The way I whistle when I'm happy, a certain
Skip up the stairs, a jaunty sense of style,
Off-kilter, off-key. I peer around the curtain
Of your abandonment and wonder: What
If you had stayed, had loved me, had loved my mother?
And what does it say of me that you would put
Yourself so first? Is that also me? What other
Ugliness have I from you? Or grace?
They say I am the mirror of your face.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ihavey.html.
For more Father’s Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Fatherhood.
June 13: Children Need a Daddy
June 14: I Have You in My Bones
