These reminders of home—the words he knew so well, the echoes of the culture of his past—reassured him. “Sure,” I said. Entering the cabin for the first time, he looked around, surveyed the sleek furnishings, and then walked onto the balcony, loudly sniffing the Mediterranean air. In its much quoted final line, “Ulysses” sums up the very spirit of travel, of adventure: “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”Cavafy knew Tennyson’s poem well. The writer returned to being a Catholic ChristianI am pro religion and pro choice to attend church, mosque etc. A mathematician by training, he valued accuracy, precision—a kind of hardness, even. These Father's Day poems are free for use as personal greeting card words, messages, sayings and notes, provided that the author's name (Joanna Fuchs or Karl Fuchs) and our Web site address, www.poemsource.com, appear somewhere on the card. The itinerary, we read, would follow the mythic hero Odysseus’ convoluted, decade-long journey as he made his way home from the Trojan War, plagued by shipwrecks and monsters. Did he lie awake at night working out some algorithm, some way of calculating his own chances?I was surprised by how swiftly he answered. Now, in the early months of 2011, he would come each week and spend the night in the bed he had made, in the house where I spent a part of each week.It used to amuse my father that I divided my time among several places: this house on the rural campus; the mellow old home in New Jersey, where my boys and their mother lived and where I would spend long weekends; my apartment in New York City, which, as time passed and my life expanded, had become little more than a pit stop between train trips. On the day before we were to start sailing to Ithaki, the captain announced that, because of nationwide strikes protesting the austerity measures being forced on Greece, the Corinth Canal was going to be closed. Rafia Shujaat, a blogger and artist, has penned this emotional poem in memory of her late father. The following are poems about God the Father submitted to this website.The poems relate to God as Father and speak of the love, compassion and strength we find when we allow God to be our parent.Defending religion against the criticisms that we should get rid of religion, or that we should leave religion because of abuse in the church. Age doesn't matter, she will always be my little one forever. When I first read Life is a Journey, I approached it as a funeral poem about the cycle of life. As the bus rattled and bumped along the rocky roads, it became touchingly clear that my father was trying to distract me. We’d board our small ship in midafternoon, and at cocktail time there’d be a welcome reception, followed by an introductory lecture. “Yeah, Dan, this has been a great . Later that day, after we’d got back, I bumped into her on deck and told her what had happened: my panic attack, Daddy holding my hand. . I felt like I was eleven years old again and Odysseus was a naughty schoolmate whom I’d decided I was going to stand by even if it meant being punished along with him.Now my father looked around the table. This first Father's Day poem tries to capture the wonder of it all in a greeting card rhyme. After all, Odysseus spends seven-tenths of his adventures there!”He paused, not looking at me, and said, “It was one of the more impressive things I’ve seen, actually.”Elena murmured, “Your father is a very charming man.”During our ten days at sea, we saw nearly everything we’d hoped to see, the strange new landscapes and the debris of the various civilizations that had occupied them.

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