Runners-up in The Herald-Mail's first poetry contest

Runners-up in the adult division:

“Sitting With My Daddy”


Sitting with my daddy
Beside the fishing hole,
Sometimes talking, sometimes listening,
Side by side, pole to pole.

Sitting with my daddy
Riding in the car,
Sometimes talking, sometimes listening,
Side by side, near and far.

Sitting with my daddy
Watching flowers grow,
Sometimes talking, sometimes listening,
Side by side, how to hoe.

Sitting with my daddy
Watching birds take flight,
Sometimes talking, sometimes listening,
Side by side, morn and night.

Sitting with my daddy