Our Dad

Freeverse

Dad steps back into this room.
Today is his birthday,
soon to be his wedding anniversary.
The day before yesterday marked
the date of his engagement.

Yes, this is Dad, he strolls back,
back into my life.
Dad does this kind of thing,
a father we all love, recall.
He᾽s been gone for ten years now.

(21 Nov 2023)

Reviews

[Stella Armour]

Hello Andrew, my father has been gone for 50 years and the smell of his pipe tobacco in my mind has finally faded after all this time.
i still light a candle on his birthday ... and miss him on father's day, strange really but it is a compulsion .

[Andrew John]

Mine smoked ciggies, no pipe; the latter would have smelled far, far better than a Park Drive or a Woodbine. But there was my dad. He did stop smoking, though, just as I did years ago. Thanks for this, Stella.

[Stella Armour]

Mine smoked Senior Service cigarettes as well as his pipe , and he liked a drink or two... but that was his generation, i remember when i was only young visiting him in hospital because he had bronchitis and the men all had little ashtrays on their lockers beside their beds. That would be unheard of today. Sadly he died of a brain tumour.

[Andrew John]

Oh, gosh, yes! Senior Service. My stepfather used to smoke those. Sorry to hear of your own dad, Stella.

[Stella Armour]

It was a lifetime ago, the raw grief faded over time and now i just think of him as a lovely memory.

[Chris Shaw]

A much loved Father remembered by his children. It seems your Dad calls on you as mine does with me. Mine, gone now 32 years but never forgotten. A very touching poem Andrew. So relatable. Anniversaries can be most poignant.

Chris

[Andrew John]

Many thanks, Chris. (We seem to be writing poems about fathers.)