As you may or may not know, Friday is poetry day here on Total Depravity. Lately I’ve noticed that, if rhyme and meter are an effective gauge of fatherhood, we dads have a lot of explaining to do.

Read all about it in this month’s post on DadBloggers:

‘There is a lot of wonderful poetry about fatherhood, but it wasn’t long before I had to search deeper and further for poetry I wanted to share. Poets—and writers, in general—tend to wallow in the shadier pools of life; hence the black turtle-necks and earth-tone courderoy. But, even knowing that, I was surprised at how disturbing poems about fathers could be. Couplets full of abuse and alcoholism and neglect. Of abandonment and depression and infidelity. This is fatherhood?’

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