Father Poems - Examples of all types of father poetry to share and read. This list of father poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. People say that fathers are the key to a prosperous family and that we cannot minimize the importance of a father. These poets have written poetry about the paternal bond between a father and son, father and daughter relationships, about a dad who passed away in death, the love children have for their father, and more. These relationships can have far-reaching social ramifications. Read
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Bob the BuilderYou apologize over and over,
Yet do it again cold shoulder.
In church every Sunday saying you’re a “righteous” man,
But at home you’re the devil’s right hand man.
It’s crazy how your so smart and calculated with...
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Categories:
father, addiction, anger, childhood, dark,
Form: Narrative
Last QuestionTime an elusive thread,
Unraveling mysteries, yet time remains unread and unknown.
From birth to death, its secrets keep winding,
Yet its origin, and ours, reprove our theories.
A journey through aeon, our pale...
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Categories:
destiny, father, humanity, imagination,
Form: Other
the ' PALINDROME' for me
Categories:
christian, father, father son,
Form: Bio
CurtainsSetting: A parlor with money hanging on a wall hosts an engagement on legal tender
Characters:
T: Teen, (spoiled boy) in puke shorts and bigoted shirt, and he's loaded {burp}
W: Woman, (nut all there) varied Degree...
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Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, change, father
Form: Verse
DON'T CRY ANY TEARS AROUND MEDON'T CRY ANY TEARS AROUND ME
Don't cry no tears around me
As I passed away and now I'm finally free
You won't see me anymore
But this soul of mine will always soar
So please don't cry any tears...
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Categories:
death, emotions, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Buckle My ShoeOne, two, buckle my shoe, a lesson to be learned;
Three, four, and so many more - times the world has turned.
Cross the laces, make some loops, feed the laces through;
Tighten them up...
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Categories:
childhood, education, father son,
Form: Couplet
NightingaleThe beckoning call of the Nightingale
Like the whistle of wind in a sail
Arrives on a spring days tail
And nestles like a cotton ball
Inside a trees hidden cloud
The hatchlings are so loud
Bumblebees covered in a...
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Categories:
bird, father, flying, happy,
Form: Sonnet
Fit In MasqueFit In Masque
It's as
Flimsy
As that
Film
You
Wear:
FEAR
All
the
Time.
[STOP.]
-Gray Squirrel
05-03-2024...
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Categories:
dad, endurance, father, how
Form: Free verse
Father's Memorial dayThe world has indeed been forgetting me
Forgetting me cruelly
As waste that neither grow nor breathe
It is a fermentation of anger and despair
As Despairing as it struggles with anger
At the unknowns in dark...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, father, father
Form: Free verse
LILYIn a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep,
Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep.
With every creak of the floorboards at night,
She'd hold her breath, gripped by fright.
Mr. Johnson, her father, a looming...
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Categories:
father, anger, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Forgiving the Unforgivable(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)
Can forgiveness mend, a childhood,
fractured in the dark?
Where the scars are a map, etched,
not just in...
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Categories:
child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
It'sAnybody, can't see?
*It's..., me here.
Who? *It's..., me.
Me? Me where?
*This Mulberry's cabin?
He's in there...?
*It's, his friend.
Sydney..., it's somebody?
Don't you start-in!...
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Categories:
anxiety, confusion, father, friend,
Form: Other
Icarus, RevisitedIn a house, half-mad, with mother and dad,
And a labyrinth he couldn’t escape -
He trudged the maze, with a string ball, so sad.
The sky’s warm, gay orb, too, was round in shape. ...
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Categories:
father, flying, humor, love,
Form: Sonnet
Where's The Men
WHERE'S THE MEN
Where's the men that once lived here
few men remain of yesteryear,
Beautiful masculinity,
Artfully carved of dignity
The command and gruff within his voice,
The rough and tumble is his choice,
His love for femininity
Is the wo'man...
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Categories:
christian, faith, family, father
Form: Rhyme
Daddy's Hand: ImagesBig hands of this man
Who I remember as a child?
Growing up in and at a time,
When real men were fathers then.
Supporting that family, no matter what,
Working their fingers to the...
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Categories:
celebration, dad, father, memory,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Father Poems
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