Theme: Father Poetry
To continue our series of themes in poetry, I have chosen fathers as a topic. There are different aspects to fathers, I will range from abusive and hateful father poems to wonderful and perfect father poems. Fathers play a large role in our lives, because they are usually the people who 'program' you throughout your childhood. Just like when you are talking to someone and you think, "That is something my father would have said!" For some of us, the thought of repeating something said by our fathers, would frighten us, and for others it would excite us. It really depends on the environment you were brought up in. Even the lack of father, can bring around a great deal of change in your life. To start, I have decided to use one of my own poems as an example.
You, daddy, were the tempteous spider
which weaved its tangled web,
in my home, in my house, in my family,
but, you daddy, you never stuck, did you?
You had magic bristles on your legs,
which allowed you to move freely
without reciprocation.
You stared at me with those eight eyes,
and you knew that only two stared back.
Did any of my vibrations reach you, daddy?
Did I get through to you?
It seemed like I moved so much,
but you could not feel me, daddy.
You live in that hole of sin and filth,
and you could not see with those eyes,
everything was hazy to you, wasn't it, daddy?
With your new life, even if it was in the dark,
you were satisfied, daddy, weren't you?
Like your prey, I was sucked in,
feeling each claw, each bite, daddy,
I felt your hunger and need.
You wanted my condolences, daddy?
While your carnivorous legs
were wrapped around me so tight?
Where could I go, daddy?
Where could I go?
You spun your web around me,
and as that liquid began to harden,
I grew bristles of my own, daddy,
and I walked right out of your snare,
and as you watched me leave,
you looked down and noticed - daddy,
that now, you were caught in your own web.
This poem, was important to me, because I had feelings which I felt towards my father, that I had a hard time expressing. I was feeling down and depressed about my life, and could not put these feelings into words until I related my father to a spider. The next poem, is by Nick Zegarac.
Into the cheery abyss
of childhood days
we burst into his arms
'What did you bring us?'
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