If you're looking for a poem for Father's Day, look no more. These four poems from Li-Young Lee, Emily Dickinson, Cesar Vallejo and Rainer Maria Rilke are favorite poems for Father's Day that truly honor fathers. Read through the poetic words and take a moment today to think of your father or father-figure.
1. To pull the metal splinter from my palmmy father recited a story in a low voice.I watched his lovely face and not the blade.Before the story ended, he'd removedthe iron sliver I thought I'd die from.I can't remember the tale,but hear his voice still, a wellof dark water, a prayer.And I recall his hands,two measures of tendernesshe laid against my face--Li-Young Lee, 'The Gift'
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2. High from the earth I heard a bird;/He trod upon the trees/As he esteemed them trifles,/And then he spied a breeze,/And situated softly/Upon a pile of wind/Which in a perturbation/Nature had left behind./A joyous-going fellow/I gathered from his talk,/Which both of benediction/And badinage partook,/Without apparent burden,/I learned, in leafy wood/He was the faithful father/Of a dependent brood;/And this untoward transport/His remedy for care,-/A contrast to our respites./How different we are!--Emily Dickinson, '1723'
3. My father sleeps. His august aspectportrays a peaceful heart;he is now so sweet...if there is any bitterness in him, it will be me.--Cesar Vallejo, 'The Distant Footsteps' (translated by Michael Smith and Valentino Gianuzzi)
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4. Sometimes a man stands up during supperand walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.And another man, who remains inside his own house,dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,so that his children have to go far out into the worldtoward that same church, which he forgot.--Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Sometimes A Man Stands Up During Supper' (translated by Robert Bly)
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