Daddy’s Hand: Images Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HAHIJKLM NOHH PQHRRHSHTHU HVWHJHHCSXYZ DHA2JAHB2TW AC2TD2E2HAWHC F2

Big hands of this manA
Who I remember as a childB
Growing up in and at a timeC
When real men were fathers thenD
Supporting that family no matter whatE
Working their fingers to the boneF
Trying to provide even in tough timesG
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Images of that man fall short in memoryH
Cloudy through a time when this manA
Went AWOL on his familyH
Leaving us better yet leaving him behindI
The only memory of him is a letterJ
From a court ordered payment andK
Photographs of distant memoriesL
Foggy but yet not forgottenM
-
My memories were years shortN
One year shy of beginning manhoodO
My changes coming naturallyH
With an absent man in my life physicallyH
-
I use to walk aroundP
I used to walk around sayQ
I ain't got no daddyH
He was absent from my lifeR
And now I'm absent from his lifeR
The images of him follow meH
like a mirror it's like right thereS
Starring back at meH
Unaware that image of himT
Is that very image of meH
But only only in the younger selfU
-
Something my wise grandma told meH
That stuck with me all my daysV
All my years even until nowW
That no matter what he's still your daddyH
Deep in my heart there was angerJ
Anger toward him for leaving meH
Going AWOL on your familyH
At any giving moment even in my lifetimeC
Yet that anger was still thereS
Grandma's words echoed deep inside my soulX
And ringing in my ears so loudY
Until I wonder if her words are trueZ
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Even thenD
I wonder deep inside of meH
But as time went onwardA2
My years is getting older and olderJ
My respect for that manA
Who I call daddyH
Only by name he's thatB2
But until then I respect himT
My daddy who I love even nowW
-
Big hands of this manA
Who I now knowC2
Even through years of re knowing himT
In spite of feelings pastD2
I must look forward and celebrateE2
Celebrate this man who I call my daddyH
Big hands of this manA
The years are showing on him nowW
The hair that once was black was whitenedH
Of years he collected through timeC
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JuneF2

Kenneth R. Jenkins

Poet's note: A poem for my daddy.




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