Father
If you’re asking the men in your family to offer something, these poems might be a beautiful fit.
13 poems
For a new beginningby John O'Donohue, 1956 ~ 2008“The delight when your courage kindled and out you stepped onto new ground”
Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 ~ 2001“The only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom”
Habitationby Margaret Atwood, b. 1939“With wonder at having survived this far, we are learning to make fire”
House of Stoneby Carmen Bugan, b. 1970“May your tears and your smiles happen always face to face.”
Learned in Kindergartenby Robert Fulghum, b. 1937“Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up”
Most like an archby John Ciardi, 1916 ~ 1978“All I do at piling stone on stone apart from you is roofless around nothing”
Oh, the places you will go!by Dr. Seuss, 1904 ~ 1991“Things can happen and frequently do, to people as brainy and footsy as you”
On Loveby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Let love be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”- On marriageby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night”
Sonnet 116by William Shakespeare, 1564 ~ 1616“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved”
The master speedby Robert Frost, 1874 ~ 1963“Once you agree that life is just life forevermore, together, wing to wing and oar to oar”
The Wedding Marchby Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 ~ 1889“I to him turn with tears, whose wonder-wedlock deals triumph and immortal years”
Wedding Toastby Richard Wilbur, 1921 ~ 2017“The world's fullness is not made, but found.”