Daddy’s Hand: Images Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HAHIJKLM NOHH PQHRRHSHTHU HVWHJHHCSXYZ DHA2JAHB2TW AC2TD2E2HAWHC F2Big hands of this man | A |
Who I remember as a child | B |
Growing up in and at a time | C |
When real men were fathers then | D |
Supporting that family no matter what | E |
Working their fingers to the bone | F |
Trying to provide even in tough times | G |
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Images of that man fall short in memory | H |
Cloudy through a time when this man | A |
Went AWOL on his family | H |
Leaving us better yet leaving him behind | I |
The only memory of him is a letter | J |
From a court ordered payment and | K |
Photographs of distant memories | L |
Foggy but yet not forgotten | M |
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My memories were years short | N |
One year shy of beginning manhood | O |
My changes coming naturally | H |
With an absent man in my life physically | H |
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I use to walk around | P |
I used to walk around say | Q |
I ain't got no daddy | H |
He was absent from my life | R |
And now I'm absent from his life | R |
The images of him follow me | H |
like a mirror it's like right there | S |
Starring back at me | H |
Unaware that image of him | T |
Is that very image of me | H |
But only only in the younger self | U |
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Something my wise grandma told me | H |
That stuck with me all my days | V |
All my years even until now | W |
That no matter what he's still your daddy | H |
Deep in my heart there was anger | J |
Anger toward him for leaving me | H |
Going AWOL on your family | H |
At any giving moment even in my lifetime | C |
Yet that anger was still there | S |
Grandma's words echoed deep inside my soul | X |
And ringing in my ears so loud | Y |
Until I wonder if her words are true | Z |
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Even then | D |
I wonder deep inside of me | H |
But as time went onward | A2 |
My years is getting older and older | J |
My respect for that man | A |
Who I call daddy | H |
Only by name he's that | B2 |
But until then I respect him | T |
My daddy who I love even now | W |
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Big hands of this man | A |
Who I now know | C2 |
Even through years of re knowing him | T |
In spite of feelings past | D2 |
I must look forward and celebrate | E2 |
Celebrate this man who I call my daddy | H |
Big hands of this man | A |
The years are showing on him now | W |
The hair that once was black was whitened | H |
Of years he collected through time | C |
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June | F2 |
Kenneth R. Jenkins
Poet's note: A poem for my daddy.
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