A Tribute To My Father
\nF.Douglas Lee 1912 – 2009<\/p>\n
Within my mind
\nA thousand pictures of you,
\nNone clearer than
\nYour figure in the barn door standing
\nTo greet the morn with weather eye<\/p>\n
To plot the moments of the day
\nRe-count the tasks
\nResolve and pray
\nFor strength and fortune’s favor
\nTo last the course til all is done.<\/p>\n
Within my head
\nA thousand sounds of you,
\nBut none so sweet
\nAs your cheerful whistled ditty
\nOr hymns you sang with tuneless ear.<\/p>\n
Your father’s smile that warmed my soul
\nProclaimed my rights
\nWithout reserve
\nIn language spirit heard
\nAnd birthed from dormant germ my song.<\/p>\n
Within my life
\nA thousand woven threads;
\nPull any one
\nAnd you live in me that moment
\nMy thoughts, my purposes, my gifts.<\/p>\n
Reaching back or yearning forward
\nThere you walk casting seed
\nTilling, watching,
\nReaping, with quiet faith and simple
\nThanks, to be your Self sufficient.<\/p>\n
Within my dreams
\nA thousand lives you live,
\nIn countless realms,
\nActing out half-remembered scripts
\nUnfettered by earth’s rigid rules.<\/p>\n
There I join you and together
\nWe build pyramids,
\nPilot spaceships,
\nTaste the wine of fame and power,
\nHold hands, and dance and laugh and sing.<\/p>\n
Ethel Lee Ingalls
\nMay 1993<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Tribute To My Father F.Douglas Lee 1912 – 2009 Within my mind A thousand pictures of you, None clearer than Your figure in the barn door standing To greet the morn with weather eye To plot the moments of … Continue reading