Magic Circle Pop - Happy Father's Day!

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The Beginning of Father's Day Story

Historians have recorded that there was a tradition to celebrate Father's Day even thousands of years ago. Their study say that 4,000 years ago in Babylon a son called Elmesu carved a father's day message on a clay card. In his message Elmesu wished his father a long and healthy life. There is no knowledge as to what happened to this father son duo but it is believed that several countries retained the custom of celebrating Father's Day.

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Genesis of Father's Day in Modern Society

The tradition of celebrating Father's Day as seen today originated in the last century. Though there are several people who are credited for furthering the cause of Father's Day, there is far greater acceptance for Ms Sonora Louise Smart Dodd's contribution. A doting daughter from Spokane, Washington, Ms Dodd is recognized as the Founder or Mother of the Father's Day Festival.

Inception of the Father's Day took place in Sonora's mind when she happened to hear a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Sonora, who was 27 then, had begun to recognize the hardships her father must have gone through while bringing up his six children alone. When Sonora was 16, her mother had died during childbirth. Sonora's father a Civil War veteran by the name of William Jackson Smart raised six children including the newborn on his own. Sonora questioned that if there is a day to recognize mothers then why is not there a day to honor fathers?

Many people laughed and joked at Sonora's idea. But her will did not droop. She began a sincere campaign lobbying for the cause of Father's Day. Her hard work began to show signs of success when Spokane celebrated its first Father's Day on June 19, 1910 with the support of Spokane Ministerial Association and the local Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). To pay tribute to her affectionate father, Sonora wished that Father's Day be celebrated on her father's birthday on June 5, but it so happened that there was not enough time for preparation and the day came to be celebrated on third Sunday in the month of June.

The noble idea of celebrating Father's Day became quite popular in US so much so that President Woodrow Wilson approved of the festival in 1916. President Calvin Coolidge too supported the idea but it was President Lyndon Johnson who signed a Presidential Proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father's Day in 1966. Then in 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June.

-http://www.fathersdaycelebration.com/story-of-fathers-day.html

Since all the Father's Day poems suck, and today, for me, is a happy sunny Sunday (wishing all the same to ya'll!), here's my quick crack attack at it:

(Buffalo Soldier,
Dreadlock Rasta..
There was a Buffalo Soldier,
In the Heart of America....)

If oft a spirit refused to be tamed,
there was no song used to melody his name.
There was an idea in a youth grown to break the sky,
but alas, we still haven't all the answers why.

Through a journey tangled, mangled, and mauled,
stood a dignity bred to stand forever tall.
Against an Age now a ravaged history,
fought a man and a soldier, now a father to me.

On a day that's designed to inspire praise,
This is my Ode, on Father's Day.
Without you, there'd be no me.
Without you, I'd never have first swum the sea.
Without you, my father, I'd be technically naught;
it was with your guidance that I rewired and sought
to breakdown boundaries and borders and fight for my dreams
and to have a good time watching Terminator scenes.

This is a poem to you, dear father of mine.
Something I've created, a thanks in kind. ;)