Character

Character

A Poem by Tate Morgan
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Tommy Persinger a man of Character.

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tommy
Tommy Persinger

What makes of a man's character

are built of actions on life's field

Not from the size of his body

nor of the power that it may wield

 

Who can say they do not cherish

the idol of their childhood dream

Where they built for them an altar

from which their tiny heart then beamed

 

The traits that we adore in them

what we all wish that we could be

Sown from seeds of imperfection

and that handsome humility

 

Rising again time after time

drawing on the strength all but gone

But oh what lofty heights indeed

for us to place our laurels on

 



© 2019 Tate Morgan


Author's Note

Tate Morgan
My son Tate and Daughter Aris lost their grandfather Tommy yesterday. He was a mans man. My son would come home from helping his grandpa work blistered and exhausted. Look at me and say" It's embarrassing I am in my prime and my grandfather can out work me. What is that old man made of?" He will live on in our collective memories as a man of Character.

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Excellent and heartfelt tribute, Tate. I enjoyed the read very much. Richest blessings to you and yours! :)

Posted 3 Months Ago


Tate Morgan

3 Months Ago

Thank you very much Jerry
Jerry Ables

3 Months Ago

You're very welcome, Tate! :)
My great-grandfather was like that. Born in 1900, worked a farm with a horse and plow to start, worked the farm through two world wars and kept working all his life. Died just a few months shy of 100, and his body was in magnificent condition from working like an ox from sunup to sundown every day of his long and happy life. May we all be so fortunate.

Posted 11 Months Ago


Tate Morgan

11 Months Ago

Thank you they are getting rarer and rarer to find
I'm actually a grave digger now. And we dig the majority of our graves by hand because cemeteries here prefer it.. no equipment tracks tearing up the grass, ect. Anyways there was a 67 year old man named Joe, that'd had been working in the business for 50+ years and he could dig circles around any of us younger guys. He ended up retiring a few months ago and I'm telling you.. we miss him.. Joe Cool. Local Legend.

Sorry about the loss. These great men.. They truly where great.. Thanks for the share.

Posted 1 Year Ago


Tate Morgan

1 Year Ago

You’re welcome thank you Josh
Really lovely,
a charming and dashing tribute.

My father's mother would have to be the closest to this for me. She was a single mom of three children. It is a shame they weren't better. She was a hard worker and a good quality woman.


Posted 1 Year Ago


Tate,

This piece of your heart set to pen of page is a most fine tribute to a man who lived is life to inherit that which, I believe, is the only true essence of any Humanized sense of Eternity or an Afterlife: Being well remembered and admired by those whom you have lived your life as an example for in being well remembered and thought of as guidance handbook for their lives, their futures, and the lives of their children after you ... Excellent ...!

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

Posted 2 Years Ago


Tate Morgan

2 Years Ago

Thank you. Tommy Was the father of my first wife grandfather to both my children. His passing was a .. read more
That's the way it was. Those men could not be out worked. Had a grandpa just like him.
I'm sorry for your loss but glad your kids were old enough to truly know him.

Posted 2 Years Ago


Tate Morgan

2 Years Ago

My son has an apartment with his girlfriend now and the only two pictures in his bedroom or a pictur.. read more
Lucky kid...
My idol, if we're to describe him as such, was a fictional character. I always wanted to be Robin Hood.
Well, different worlds... I shaped my ideas of manhood on Robin Hood, King Arthur... But I could never ask them for advice.
Beautiful tribute to a good man who loomed large I think in every life he touched.

Posted 2 Years Ago


Tate Morgan

2 Years Ago

Do u have children
M. J. Smith

2 Years Ago

A daughter, 14 years old. Married, too. Yeah, The Drifter became a settled man! 🙂
Tate Morgan

2 Years Ago

Children give us a mortality. Everyone who ever lived and died and eventually passed to you their h.. read more
our own character builds ourselves of who we are, yesterdays define us. This is very well presented. I enjoy your words.

Posted 2 Years Ago


Tate Morgan

2 Years Ago

Again thank you much
This is a well written piece that reflects the content of character we should all aspire toward. Thank you for sharing your poem.

Posted 3 Years Ago


Tate Morgan

3 Years Ago

Thank you Carlos. Tom was a great guy
Carlos Lorenzo Estrada

3 Years Ago

This was a wonderful tribute to your friend, and reflects our better humanity.

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