"Lovely poem about your father Chris, I've written a few poems about my dad, even though I've never met him, and never will as I discovered he died in New Zealand...over 30yrs ago...your poem touched my heart." Frank Hornby . commented: Just found it nice to read this poem...
, the woman is in the ambulance, but it’s possible that she’s giving birth or having a miscarriage—especially considering the subsequent reference to an unwanted “love gift” that men in bowler hats have no interest in receiving (perhaps implying that they don’t want to be fathers). ...
Great poem with symbolism that employed obscurantism to pass a great message that glorifies the doggedness of fathers in their quests to have giant shoulders for their offspring to mount upon. Reply by Umesh 7 years ago This poem helped me get out of depression. I recite it every morning ...
That last line, talking of how we will laugh about the hassle of leaving just to be together again touched my deeply because that was similar to the last words of my best friend who died in the hospital after a terrible car crash. He told me he would see me again and when I was ...
In deciding to keep the tree in the backyard, the two women think about preceding generations of their family and the speaker dreams of her "fathers out of Bohemia." This is an area in central Europe that falls within what is now known as the Czech Republic. Many Czech Americans are desc...
have the pits in my knees…” “What?” She shrugged. “I was a little girl, there were times when she bit and chewed the inside of her elbow to spit the bits of flesh and the blood on her grandma but those times were over
Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of the following quote in his “I have a Dream” speech: My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
Through fathers' prayers and mothers' also, This honest craft he put them to. He learned best, and was of honesty, And passed his fellows in curiosity, If in that craft he did him pass, He should have more worship than the less, This great clerk's name was Euclid, His name it spre...
that this time died for you: it was a rock and with it all its local web of love: a chimney, spilling down historic bricks: perhaps a skyful of Ben Franklin's kites. And with them, us. For we must hear and bear the news from everywhere: the hourly news, ...
Fathers and Sons 56 Hard Times 43 History 37 Humanity 56 Life 100 Mortality 41 Overcoming Adversity 60 Perseverance 57 Philosophical 33 Form: Octave 45 Rudyard Kipling 100 Rudyard Kipling's poetry, including 'If,' is known for its didactic and moralistic tone. His poetry often imparts life les...