Things That Made Dad Cool

[DanaC]

I was trying to find some verse to put on the funeral paper thingy...I went on some sites. Was going to try and find something by Kipling or some such (the Indian connection). I also looked at mermorial verses.

I couldn't find anything. So I decided to write my own. This is first draft. I am thinking of playing with the verse order (possibly will reverse 4 and 5). But anyway. I'm pleased with it.


Things that made Dad cool
He was There,
Quietly, never effusively
But always

He played a mean Harmonica,
Soulfully
Like a poet in the wilderness

He knew the value of Beauty
In a garden
In the dance of a bee

He was a Fixer
Of broken
And forgotten things

He knew Stuff
The genus of a flower
The workings of a radio

He was our Dad
And the coolest man
I know.