An imperfect man, Trying to guide his children, Loving them always. I'd love to hear from the inner poet in you. Can you come up with a parenting focused haiku? If so, post it in the comments below and gain the love and adoration of my thousan...

The other day I discovered that some kid in the year above Isaac at school has been picking on him. Thankfully it’s stopped now, but the surge of teeth-grinding fist-clenching protectiveness I felt (and feel) has inspired this little poem. I’ve self-published it as a book, with Isaac (age 4) ...

Recently, a number of users over at the GeekDad community got together to write a geeky poem, just one of the fun things going on over at the GeekDad Community. After the poem was begun, each message board poet finished the previous line of a couplet, wrote his own pair, ...

National Poetry Month is almost over, but you can make poetry a part of your day year-round. Here are five simple suggestions for fitting poems into your busy schedule:

Maintain forward momentum. 4 A Man Called Da-da is like a well: used and mostly used up, occasionally peed on, yelled at, dipped into constantly until there's nothing left and eventually filled with garbage. He is like the eternal void, but smells worse. Da-da is filled with absolutely nothing of consequence except the faintest echo of infinite impossibilities. He is ...

Too much TV. 3 If you overesteem Ma-ma, Da-da becomes powerless. If you overvalue the power of television, children begin to zombify. A Man Called Dada leads by emptying his mind and filling children's tummies, by weakening his ambition and toughening children's resolve. He helps children gain everything they know, understand everything they feel, and creates confusion in himself until he

2 When people see some children as beautiful, other children become ugly. When people see some children as good, other children become bad. Being childlike and childish create each other. Difficult and easy live on the same street. Long and short are your hours and days off, respectively. High and low pretty much depends on days Ma-ma has ...

2 When people see some children as beautiful, other children become ugly. When people see some children as good, other children become bad. Being childlike and childish create each other. Difficult and easy live on the same street. Long and short are your hours and days off, respectively. High and low pretty much depends on days Ma-ma has ...

The Tao of Da-da makes bigfoot DANCE. 1 The Man Called Da-da that can be told is not the Eternal Da-da. The mess that can be cleaned is not the Eternal Mess. The unstoppable child is the eternally real. Naming of the unstoppable child is the origin of all particular pain and suffering. Free from children, you realize the ...

Here's Da-da's entry for "The Painted Bride" short poetry contest called, "Sidecar #12." Entries have to include the words: "gyrate," "gap-toothed" and "God."  Da-da's Brain is Still Missing Gap-toothed no-neck monsters screech and gyrate in 6YO floppy soliloquoy: bed time. Meanwhile, Da-da's Swedish au pair lies on a tanning bed blocks away, texting admirers over blue ...