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A Few of My Award Winning Poems.

**Note: "A Father and his Son" was written for my father who is the greatest Dad in the entire world! "A Father and his Son"  also won an editors choice award in 2007.

 

A Father and his Son

 

He stands aside and watches,

Amazed at what he sees.

A tiny image of himself,

The offspring of his seed.

 

Before he knows, a year has passed,

His child is now afoot.

Testing, tasting, exploring,

The how, when, where and what.

 

His little one is growing fast,

Already starting school.

The first day is the hardest,

For Dad to play it cool.

 

Anxiety at separation,

Most common, so they say.

For Dad it’s even harder,

To have his son away.

 

But soon he does adjust,

Falling into a routine,

Of school drop off and pick up,

And working in-between.

 

No sooner he can blink,

It’s graduation day,

With college on the horizon,

And no more time to play.

 

The next four years fly by,

In a crazy, hazy whirl,

Now his son is getting married,

To a very lovely girl.

 

Within a year or two,

Another joins the flock,

Dad is suddenly a Grandpa,

Babysitting round the clock.

 

Now the doctor tells him,

He has three months to live,

His body is worn out,

And has nothing left to give.

 

He spends the time remembering,

His life and gracious son,

Until he takes his last breath,

And joins his Dad, beyond.

©2007 Shirley Petrandis

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***Note: "Sight Unseen" was written and 2006, and also won editor's choice award. This poem was written for a friend from college who never ceased to astound me with her ability to see better than I, in light of the fact she was blind.

 

Sight Unseen

 

In darkness, wide-eyed, she blinks and stares.
She feels the sun upon her bare.
They tell her of such things as sight,
Of color, depth, contrast and height.

 
But all she knows is what she feels,
And tastes and smells-- her senses reel.
With fingers that are like ten eyes,
She pokes and prods, and tests and spies.

She does not need to see to know
Who someone is or where to go.
She has memorized every step and sound,
Each person's voice-- every inch of ground.

She hears a smile and can smell deceit.
She can sense victory as well as defeat.
And just like you, she laughs and cries,
And sees, she does, but not with her eyes.

Copyright ©2006 Shirley Petrandis

 

Shirley Petrandis

Shirley Petrandis began writing at the age of 5, when she started piano lessons and creating her own songs. Reading and writing, even at the earliest age, was one of her greatest delights and she spent many an hour curled up in her grandmother's upholstered chair reading anything and everything from The Old Man and The Sea to Great Expectations.
She has been writing poetry and lyrics nearly her entire life. Four years ago she began to enter the world of novel writing, and has one in final edits-- two other's still in the works. In addition, she quite often work with musicians, putting lyrics to their songs. Presently, some of her lyrics are climbing the charts with a European Band she was contracted to provide the lyrics for an entire album.

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