Journey With Jesus

A Weekly Webzine for the Global Church, since 2004.

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The Journey with Jesus: Poems and Prayers

Selected by Dan Clendenin

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz," from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Copyright © 1940, 1954 by Theodore Roethke. Copyright © 1942 by Hearst Magazines, Inc.

 
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