THE SEED

My father was a Poet in his bygone days

there were his ‘Ode to a Kite Hawk’ and poems on Indian ways.

He wrote of love for Mother and of David too

there were his words of Christian faith and a prayer or two.

When I used to know him before he sadly died

he would show his poems to me with modest pride.

But I was too young to see the light, of the seed he’d sown in me

at that time, I did not take to words of poetry.

Then one late November day as I sat there in my room

I heard on the radio someone sing words to a classic tune.

My head was suddenly full of words running around in rhyme

could it be the seed he’d sown had found its harvest time?

Now, I’m just beginning, in this moment of time

to see if I can also write something down in Rhyme.

I’d like to think the way he wrote now lives inside of me

and I too can write some words in verse like him as poetry.

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