Guest Writer For Father's Day - My Dad!
Beauty
Day by day, hour by hour
I watched you grow, little flower.
I watched your precious petals shine
With increased beauty all the time
You stood beside a quiet lake
And all the long day through you’d make
A gentle, mirrored, colour scheme
Of soft light blue, and tender green
You were indeed the sweetest thing
Among the beauties of the spring.
Your loveliness was everywhere
And passing people stopped to stare.
But now a withered clump of brown,
People glance at you, and frown.
I watched you grow, little flower.
I watched your precious petals shine
With increased beauty all the time
You stood beside a quiet lake
And all the long day through you’d make
A gentle, mirrored, colour scheme
Of soft light blue, and tender green
You were indeed the sweetest thing
Among the beauties of the spring.
Your loveliness was everywhere
And passing people stopped to stare.
But now a withered clump of brown,
People glance at you, and frown.
Doug Williams
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, DAD!
(See last year's Father's Day Post and pics HERE. It featured the story he wrote called, "The Little Red Shoes".)
Labels: Dad's Poems, Fading Beauty, Father's Day 2007, flowers
29 Comments:
What a great poem. I wrote about something similiar when I was in high school.
It was a poem about beautiful seashells and how people always wanted to collect them just because of how they looked. When something isn't beautiful,people tend to be disinterested or even angry because of the lack of beauty.
Your dad rocks!!
Saturday, June 03, 2006
I now see where your flare for poetry writing came from mother of invention...love this poem.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Hi mother of invention, the word is 'flair' not 'flare'...pardon for the slip-up!!!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
We had fathers day last sunday, but it's not celebrated very much not like motherday.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
What a beautiful poem, and such a handsome Dad! :)
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Hi MOI! Nice of you to put up the poem again. Indeed beauty is fleeting... Hey, your dad's handsome; so was mine!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
That is very sweet. Happy Father's Day to your dad.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
:^)
Sunday, June 17, 2007
thats cute one!
happy fathers day to your dad
-belated!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
What a great post. Nice poem and a rather good-looking Dad.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Robin:Thanks! I think he does too!
Twilite: Thanks you. Yes, I think I have some of his talent and I wishe he'd written more. (I'll tell him you thought he was handsome! He's 88!)
Gattina: I wonder why there's more emphasis on Mother's Day?
Rapunzel: Thanks..he'll be thrilled to hear this!
Meno: Thanks. I think my dad's the greatest. He had a great day on Sun.
Gr:
*^_^
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White Forest: Thanks for the visit and wishes!
Gewels: Thanks! I always thought he was distinguished loking, especially in a 3-piece suit, which he always wore to work, all tailor-made!
Monday, June 18, 2007
Awesome tribute.
Wishin a happy week as well to your Dad.
He looks really fantastic!
He has that sexy Sean Connery look!
Monday, June 18, 2007
Very nice and Happy Father's Day to your dad!
Monday, June 18, 2007
wow!! hes a wonderful writer, would love to read more by him.
Happy Father's Day to him from me. :)
Monday, June 18, 2007
What a wonderful poem and awww M.O.I your Dad looks like a real sweetheart, very handsome too!!
Monday, June 18, 2007
Lynn: Woo! Sean Connery! I'll have to tell him that! Thanks!
Chase: Thanks! I'll pass it on.
Mystic: Me too! He has about 4 other wonderful poems and a short story on the link to last Father's Day,but I could never get him to write more.
Lynclay: Thanks! He is a pretty sweet man!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
He's a pistol!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Beautiful, simply beautiful!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Outstanding!!!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
I'm breathless - you really hit my emotions - what a poem from a father to a daughter... tears can fall for less.
And you went to BC.
Can't believe it. In Vancouver BC my daugther and I had our first glass of White Wine together at Bridges - 1995. When we asked my mothers cousin Marie - to go from Portland, OR, up to Vancouver for 36 hours. She let us. The year after, when she was 97 - she went to Oslo with her grandson Rande - and walked around downtown Oslo for 3 1/2 hours - no rest.
... Last year in end of July I was back in BC - followed #3 eastward to Glacier N.P.
I need more time to comment, it's dinner time;))
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Steve, Mona, and Mike: Thanks you guys! My dad and his poem are all of that! I think he's very talented. And the babes thought he was a pistol, Steve, when he was young!
Torra: Aww! Thanks! It's nice when one can evoke the emotions of another.
What a beautiful place to meet friends in BC, and to have wine with your daughter! I loved Victoria on Vancouver Island and some of the islands where my friends live.
And, man, was Marie a trouper to do all that walking!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
This is a very nice poem and I was really into it until the end. This line through me for a loop.
But now a withered clump of brown,
People glance at you, and frown.
I know I may be showing my ignorace here but what does he mean by this?
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Grizz: He wrote it in the past tense, so at the end, the flower has sadly aged and died, losing its beauty. On a larger scale, he's saying that people tend to look at and admire things/people that are beautiful but once that fades, they are of no value and actually may push them away or think they're ugly.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Awesome! Like father like daughter as far as poetry goes. Maybe you look alike too.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
It's great to see your dad writing and what a sweet, but somewhat sad, sentiment. Pretty picture and your dad looks so happy.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Colleen: I think so too! Thanks!
I don't think we look much alike. Both tall and lanky and blue eyes.
Brooksba: Yes, it is neat that he wrote good stuff! It is indeed a sad sentiment but human nature I guess.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Truth in nature. Happy your father is here for Father's Day
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Old Lady: Yep...sad truths. I'm glad and very lucky he is here. Thanks.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
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