Friday, November 27, 2009
Fatherhood in Poetry
In Roger Robinson's Poetry Workshop, on The Guardian, there's a discussion of poetry involving fatherhood. He's asking for your best poem on fatherhood as well. Why not submit something?
Those Winter Sundays
by Robert E Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
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1 comment:
touching , so true, immensely moving!!
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