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    He stood so tall, like a giant tree
    His head reached toward the sky.
    My head barely reached his knees,
    Yet I had no fear inside.

    I felt content in his massive arms
    As he lifted me up high.
    Then I kept growing taller
    As the years were passing by.

    He now would teach me how to ride
    The bike he bought for me.
    He’d take me out to ball games,
    And swimming in the sea.

    Next I knew, I was tall (like him)
    We were standing eye to eye.
    He attended all my high school sports.
    So much time had passed by.

    He helped me through my childhood
    Until I was fully grown.
    And now I am a dad myself
    with children of my own.

    As I look back in memory
    At the wonderful life I had,
    I say a special prayer to God
    To thank him for my dad.

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    sk commented on Dad

    10-13-2009

    This is another thoughtful piece of writing; The opening lines seemed to describe my own Dad perfectly...now he is 70 and has shrunk significantly in size, but not in my heart....he is still a giant of a man..Thanks for sharing!

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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