Jingles

Chapter 29: That’s My Pa

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About This Book

A compact collection of short lyrical poems and light verse that shifts between playful sketches and earnest meditations. Recurring subjects include love and courtship, reflections on youth and aging, solitude, and small-town or frontier life. Several pieces celebrate natural settings such as the sea and mountain landscapes, using vivid but plain diction. Some poems employ humor and character sketches to portray everyday figures, while others dwell on memory, loss, and the passage of time. The overall tone balances simple, rhythmic lines with reflective and occasionally wistful moods.

That’s My Pa

Always stern,

Likes no fun;

Sits and reads

When home he’ll come.

Says the light

Is awful dim;

Tells me not

To bother him.

Smokes his pipe,

Don’t say a word;

Says boys should be seen,

Not heard.

Makes me go

To bed at eight,

While he and ma

Both sit up late.

Looks at me

So awfully grave;

Tells me that

I must behave.

Thinks of no one

’Cepting ma.

Oh! he’s cranky—

That’s my pa.