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Father

Richard Taylor

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We crawled across the cold black grass.
Towards the shed
Where power tools raged and the smell of sawdust perfumed the night air.
A single light bulb flashed
A hammer drummed a tuneless song
Through the window
A man alone at his work
A man we could not disturb
A man who often said
He could live like a king
If it werent for us

About this poem

A memory of childhood and an autocratic father.

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Written on January 02, 2022

Submitted by richardtaylormade on January 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHBIJ
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 327
Words 67
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
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