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Sebastian Matthews's avatar

Love the hoopsters shot

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Bernie Mortensen's avatar

What war did your father die from? Im. seventy. It seems to me we have been at war since I was a child.

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Joletta Belton's avatar

Those basketball uniforms though!

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Paul D Johnson's avatar

This lovely poem will not quit my head. It keeps coming back, round after round, each time better than the last. So much packed into so few words.

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Jan Harayda's avatar

Hi, Sherman -- I know an editor who might interest you for your stories, but I couldn't dm you so I used the contact form on your website to give you details and an email address. Jan

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Suzanne Shepherd's avatar

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

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Simon Brooks's avatar

Bbreaks my heart. Such a brilliant poem, and love the photos.

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Kathleen Brant's avatar

The so beautifully "pictures" missing your father on Father's Day----or any day really.

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Lisa Sockett's avatar

Beautiful 🙏❤️

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Gary Spangler's avatar

Thank you so much Sherman! Your choices of photos and words touched my heart. My father “left” 54 years ago. Once while deer hunting together he shared a poem he had written for me. I know of no other poems he had written.

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Kathleen Wallace's avatar

Gone yet near to heart.

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Peter Gimpel's avatar

BS"D

This is what poetry is about!

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Dennis Martinez's avatar

I didn't really know my father, I can't even imagine him enough to dream about him.

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Nikki Broadwell's avatar

Thank you for this… I have been thinking about my father all day… gone for many years…he stuck around for a while and then one morning I realized I had not dreamed about him for a while💕

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Hannah Levy's avatar

Wow. I had a dream last week about my dead father calling me and I wrote a poem about it. Reading your poem here felt like looking in a mirror. Here's the poem:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DK8bZWgxG0h/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Pam Reese's avatar

Thank you for sharing this poem to your father.

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