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My Monday Metrical Musings #210

brown brick wall
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Hopes Dashed...Yet... All my daddy hopes for youMusicMoviesLiteratureStudiesConfidantesHobbiesMaturationEmpathyCuriosityConnectedness Dashed to the rocksShattered into a million shards of......nothing. I don't know when it happenedI don't know how it happenedI don't know why it happenedBut it happenedAnd I am completely and utterly Undone Do all parents everywhereGo through the same?I wish it was soSelfish I knowBut if … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #210

My Monday Metrical Musings #209

reflection of finger in a mirror
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What?! Parenting Is A Mirror?! mirror mirror on the wallwho's the best parent of them all? not you dear masternot you I feartill you musterthe courage to facewho you are mirror mirror in my handjust what do you mean I don't understand no one is, nono one can ever beit's like asking if you're the … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #209

My Monday Metrical Musings #208

man raising his right arm
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Be The Adult. Be The Man. Remember you're the manNot the cry babyRead the roomChannel your best Doctor Doom Show no emotionsYour family's counting on youTo act like the head not the tailTo shoulder the role. Man the sail Moms and kids are allowed to fallTo break apart at a moment's callNot you no pal … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #208

My Monday Metrical Musings #207

man sitting near brown wood plank
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Male Loneliness Men struggledMen sidelinedMen friendshipDisappearing Men disparagedMen unemployedMen domesticReappearing Men institutionsMen isolationsMen tribulationsMultiplying Men suicidalMen solitudeMen aloneReluctantly Men everywhereMen nowhereMen silencedDisturbing

My Monday Metrical Musings #205

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Bad Dad To stop sibling rivalryJust play the bad dadThat's what I have discoveredThough it brings me much dread Cos when I turn ballisticMy sons band togetherI'm instantly their common enemyAnd they the Band of Brothers (united) It's good I guess butWhere does that leave their old man?Out in cold enemy territoryTaking his sad solo … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #205

My Monday Metrical Musings #202

silhouette of a couple dancing together
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The Birds & The Bees #1 It's time again but yet it's notTo talk to another son about natureThe birds the bees and all of creation in betweenAnd still I'm sooooo unprepared unsure It's different this time you seeMy youngest is a "blurry" beeLiving in his own honeycombAfraid to venture to the unknown Yet he's … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #202

My Monday Metrical Musings #201

couple hugging and using smartphone near sea on sunset
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Have I The Right To Scream? Oops I think I did it again!Substituting great for goodEven what's only blah....Just middle-of-the-road And all for what? Doomscrolling. TikToking.Forgetting all the books.Fast dopamine. Rapid responding.Quick relief and pleasure sensing Don't I already knowThe perils of this digital life?Didn't I read Newport. Twenge. Jonathan Haidt? Yet I still fall. … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #201

My Monday Metrical Musings #200

close up of a two hundred euro banknote
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Another Milestone I just want to state for the recordThat 200 is no mean featI've pushed out these ditties for so long Would hate to go out in defeat Many were the times I thought "Rhyming couplets"? Who does that anymore?How kiddish my poems must sound to othersYet every single one's mine to call I've … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #200

My Monday Metrical Musings #198

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Saying Goodbye To My Million Dollar View Some may scoff but they don't knowThis greenery so rare I've loved since long agoTwenty-five years to be exact I've had it butNow I must say goodbye to my MillionDollarView Just opposite my apartmentAll shades of green you'll seeEach one a special treeEach one a leafy scene I … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #198