Corby Caffrey-Dobosh is an author with essays in the Love Revealed series of books and she has guest posted previously. See more details about her after reading today’s offerings.
With Father’s Day upon us, Corby is sharing gift poems she wrote at special times for her husband, Doug, and for her father, Bernie (aka: Pop). We are invited into her fearless and heart warming word pictures of these two beloved men.
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Fatherhood
-For Doug- 
Images of you:
A searching man who found his home
In a meatmarket Mexican-American bar
A found man conjuring soulfulness with
A woman as she tiptoes on a limb of self-discovery
A gentle man who loves away wounds of others
Leaving his own to spontaneous self-heal
An honest man who shares harsh truths in hopes
Of demobilizing two crashing trains
A spiritual man who sojourns a daily pilgrimage
To selflessness
A father
To many who know him
Serving a medley of dadda duties
Clinging to his idiosyncratic interpretation of Fatherhood
You are father to your father
Your sons
Your daughter
Your wife
Her kin
Your name redefined
restored to your grandfather’s glory
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SILENCE SAYS MORE
For Pop
You
are not easy to know
although i want to — an insatiable craving
for deep-dished understanding of
You
You
insist i know
You
yet i doubt
cock my head
wonder
i want more of
You
(Doug reminds me we never get enough of what we best love)
Quiet peaceful silence
i DESPISE, grit my teeth,
cower, tap my foot
Fill the space between us
with empty yatter chatter to
tell You me hoping
You’ll tell me You
Proud of You
i chit chat with Rosie
to know a
You
young
un-harmed by life’s precariousness chaos
un-orphaned
new father
Rosie tells me
how when i was born
a proud, splendid Pappa
You
declared in the black bowel pits of Nemacolin’s Earth
“Gayle had a girl, and we named her Corby.”
She tells me
You
were always quiet kind respectful
not like the other guys
A willow in the torrential chatter of coal-miner-gossip
“A good man – He’s a GOOD man – and the best boss
I ever had.”
i close my eyes
my mouth
and imagine a young You
black mascara coal dust under eyelids
idealism still on Your brow
adolescent confidence of a twenty-something man
In Your examining observant sleuth-for-sincerity eyes
-eternal sparkle sensitive blue-
You befriend Rosie – the only sincere soul in the mine
the margin woman coal miner wise elder
You
in a young man’s body
i think
You
rallied with her
knowing neither of you really fit there
But there You stayed
for us
for mom
for Your children, grandchildren
for me
Sacrificing Your idealism
impish confidence
self concept
but never
Your sincerity
love
promises
or vows
I watch
You
-now always-
i see
You
I may not know
You
from conversation words babble chatter dialogue
But know
You
I do
The unchangeable
You
reverent respectful silent
Still an inspiration
Your sacrifices I keep
in the quiet of my heart
(is there such a place?!!?!)
and humbly thank with each story of
You
the strong good man
my father
who says so much
in the quiet of silence.
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To enjoy more of Corby’s creativity, you will find she offers readers her heart and her perspective through these engaging true stories, “Personality” in Parent-Child Memories: Love Revealed and “Absence” in Living Through Grief: Love Revealed. As well, you can visit the interview conversation I had with Corby about her passion for writing, and check out her guest post “Strawberries & Whisker Kisses: Love Revealed” about childhood times with her grandfather in his garden.
* * * Parent-Child Memories: Love Revealed and Mother-Daughter Memories: Love Revealed are offered for free downloads on Amazon for 3 days. June 13th -15th, Friday-Sunday, these 2 eBooks are available in celebration of Father’s Day. * * *
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