It has been a while since I scribbled on Sundays and while it might be late to post it for father’s day, according to various online sites, the whole third week of June following Father’s Day is Universal Father’s Week! So here is something for you: the best poems for father on father’s day and to celebrate dad everyday, at least the ones I loved best!! And hoping you will find one that you will consider among the best too in these.

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Poetic Sundays: The Best Poems for Dad Everyday

I have many more to share but here are a few to start with!

• The Gift by Li-Young Lee. These lines from the poem captured my heart – ‘And I recall his hands, / two measures of tenderness / he laid against my face’
• To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Brownin
• Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden talks of all those silent acts of love dads do everyday for their families.
• To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet.
• My Father by Ann Taylor.. these lines reminded me of my own dad – ‘Who took me from my mother’s arms, / And smiling at her soft alarms,/ Showed me the world and nature’s charms?
  / My Father.’
• Only a Dad by Edgar Guest. Read the whole poem in the linked page but here are a few lines that show how true the lines feel about all the wonderful dads in our lives. – “Only a dad, but he gives his all / To smooth the way for his children small, / Doing, with courage stern and grim,/ The deeds that his father did for him./ This is the line that for him I pen,/ Only a dad, but the best of men.”
• In My Father’s Kites by Allison Joseph, the poet marvels at how her dad pulled off the seemingly impossible. I especially loved these lines – “How did he make those makeshift / diamonds rise, grab ahold of the wind to sail / into sky like nothing in our neighborhood / of dented cars and stolid brick houses could?”
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox’ Father is another heartwarming poem for dad. Check out these lines from the poem – “Then the highest earthly glory he was won, / When in pride a grown-up daughter or a son / Says ‘That’s Father.’”

Recently

On My Blog and Home Front

It has been a while since i posted consistently, and definitely a long time since I did a sunday post. So here are the posts since my last Sunday Scribblings.

• Dadurday to Celebrate Wonderful Dads Everyday and Everywhere
• From Butter to Living With Hope and Magic and More
• Five Fantastic Finds for Father’s Day and More
• Sunday Scribblings #190: Explore More with Little with the Jueju

This Week’s Celebrations

The Literary and Close-to-it Celebrations

• The birthdays this week: Celia Rees on the 17th of June; the 18th of June is to celebrate Chris Van Allsburg. Come Juneteenth, we celebrate Salman Rushdie’s birthday; and the 20th is Vikram Seth’s birthday; Ian McEwan on the 21st of June; 22nd June is Dan Brown’s while June 23rd is Markus Zusak’s birthday.
• June 19th is National Garfield the Cat Day!! (it launched on June 19, 1978)

The Foodie Celebrations

• The 17th of June is rich with delicacies; for it is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, National Apple Strudel Day, and National Cherry Tart Day
• June 18th observes National Cherry Tart Day and International Sushi Day
• The 19th is National Martini Day
• Followed by National Vanilla Milkshake Day and National Ice Cream Soda Day on the 20th
• Then more delish follows on June 21st with National Peaches ‘N’ Cream Day
• 22nd June brings more yumminess with National Chocolate Eclair Day and National Onion Rings Day
• 23rd June is National Pecan Sandies Day

The Other Celebrations

• The 17th marks the start of Universal Father’s Week and is also World Tessellation Day
• June 18th is to go ahead and splurge for it is, well, National Splurge Day. It is also International Picnic Day
• The 19th of June is Juneteenth as well as National Watch Day. It is also World Sauntering Day so take a stroll along your favorite trails
• June 20th is National Yard Games Day, National Hike with a Geek Day, World Productivity Day, and World Refugee Day
• Followed by Make Music Day on the 21st of June. It also happens to be the International Day of Yoga, World Humanist Day, and World Peace and Prayer Day
• And the majestic giraffe is celebrated on the 21st of June by World Giraffe Day and gives us a reason to snap pics of ourselves with it being National Selfie Day
• June 22nd celebrates World Rainforest Day
• The 23rd of June is cool indeed for it celebrates International Women in Engineering Day! And the color pink with National Pink Day!

Related Stuff

• Check out poems for mom here in this post.
• And I love Kate Messner’s Over and Under series. She has one perfect to read on World Rainforest Day as well!
• Read my post with more on productivity. And when you are short on time but want to feel like you accomplished something to give you that boost, check out this list of 30 Productive Things to Do in Five Minutes and Make Life Better. Just to be clear, each of the items on this list is something you can finish in less than five minutes…:)
• I am loving this giant Tic Tac Toe outdoor game (it actually fits into a bag less than 12 inches by 12 inches for loads of portable fun anywhere you go – the beach, camping, to the park, your backyard, just about anywhere). In seconds, you have a 3ft x 3ft set tic-tac-toe game set up to play! For more fun games, check out my post here.

Wrapping up my Sunday Scribblings

So dear reader, this was it for this post. As always, appreciate and totally welcome your thoughts, comments, and suggestions on these scribblings on Sunday! And which of these days in this wonderful week do you plan to celebrate?