Father's day
All right, I know Father's Day was last week. But it is pretty difficult to squeeze out words recently. So I will post something that I have (yes, you guessed right!) written some time back.
I am trying to work on the GPA competition poems, but at this rate, it looks like the deadline will just breeze by...
image by dsnake1
from a hand-made card by my daughter
Father's Day
Father's Day was plodding on and going out,
didn't gave a damn
so commercialised was it,
ads hammering away on TVs,
papers,
so jaded i forgot it was today,
until my dear little girl
hugged me
and
gave me a bunch of three plastic flowers
she said she made herself
specially for
me
for Father's Day
and you look into
those proud eyes of hers
you know
all your sleepless nights
your mad days in the office
all your love,
was all worthwhile.
19-06-99
I am trying to work on the GPA competition poems, but at this rate, it looks like the deadline will just breeze by...
image by dsnake1
from a hand-made card by my daughter
Father's Day
Father's Day was plodding on and going out,
didn't gave a damn
so commercialised was it,
ads hammering away on TVs,
papers,
so jaded i forgot it was today,
until my dear little girl
hugged me
and
gave me a bunch of three plastic flowers
she said she made herself
specially for
me
for Father's Day
and you look into
those proud eyes of hers
you know
all your sleepless nights
your mad days in the office
all your love,
was all worthwhile.
19-06-99
Labels: Father's Day, love, Poetry
posted by dsnake1 at 9:39 PM
12 Comments:
my daughters are older than me but i'm still happy to eat/drink/read any presents on offer from them :)
Its so touching ...Nasra
Can't get any better than that.
floots,
:D
nasra,
thank you!
pat,
thanks.
and now she's as tall as me (maybe even taller) :)
I missed my dad on father's day..
oh, lovely...
(we don't celebrate father's day here but still...)
Sigh, thump, tears of joy in my eyes. You caught it, D.
Hope your Father's Day was gr8!
gautami,
i'm sure you do.
do take care.
polona,
thanks!
i don't really celebrate it too, but this poem was inspired by my child's actions many years ago. :)
gel,
thank you! It was gr8!
Mother's Day is more commercialized than Father's Day it seems. Fathers don't keep track of things like this either it seems, not the ones I know anyway. :) I think your daughter's card is kewl, you can see she's got artistic sense.
>>I am trying to work on the GPA competition poems, but at this rate, it looks like the deadline will just breeze by...
One more month. Go go, dsnake! :D
- Liz
Liz,
there's very little ads for Father's day compared to Mother's day this year, maybe the retailers realised that there's little business in FD.:)
i wrote this one some time back and at that time, the ads were still strong.
>>I think your daughter's card is kewl.
you should have seen the cards she made for her Japanese on-line friends!
>> GPA. see, one month just breezed by.. :)
well, you can take one of your older poems and use it in the GPA contest. :)
(very nice Fathers Day poem)
andrew,
thanks! I will have to find 5 to 8 poems for the competition, because that's the number of submissions needed in the English poetry section. :)
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