Best Son Poems
Below are the all-time best Son poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of son poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Son My FriendMourn not my Son... your Father's dead
And there's nothing to be done.
Do not mount the battlements in my defense
As the race was fairly won.
The kitchen...
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Categories:
son, appreciation, death, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
As Flowers Crumble Collaboration With Silent OneLullabies through tear filled eyes
It's truly, love at first sight
The bond is forged and galvanized
To hold forever tight
Each time you needed a hand
She always had...
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Categories:
love, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
Shepherd Who Forgot His FlockIt's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see
sometimes they bleed.
Some say words heal,
but I resist to...
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Categories:
childhood, emotions, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Garden of MumMum sat in her aromatic garden,
admiring its charm and grace.
It was a cold morning,
but mum never seemed to feel it any more.
Her eyes were tired,...
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Categories:
mother, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
-unlatched-_______________________
So young, I was, and so naive
There was no doubt, I did believe
this babe who's latched inside my womb
with ties we had,... would always be
Latched...
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Categories:
childhood, family, mother, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Petals and PoetryIn a world full of unwelcome nightmares,
I recite dreams of poetry to the one who cares.
I'm pondering a perfect metaphor,
trying to portray my mum's devotion.
Thinking...
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Categories:
appreciation, child, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
son, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form:
Couplet
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
son, america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative
More Worse When I Cry(note: picture is essential to the poem)
Teacher said my decisions needed consequences.
I have to write a million gazillion sorry sentences.
Billy was stupid to tease...
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Categories:
son, abuse, childhood, emotions, father,
Form:
Narrative
Between the Words of My FatherI tried my best
To live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
Smaller than small
So why didn't I fit?
I wonder
Now that you...
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Categories:
farewell, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Midsummer BreezeMidsummer Breeze
How may I extol a midsummer breeze?
As soft as rose petals in cooling wind
That flutters leaves upon the verdant trees,
And endeavors to make...
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Categories:
flower, heartbreak, son, summer,
Form:
Sonnet
If Ever I Don't Know"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and
can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words"
...
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Categories:
son, age, daughter, father daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...
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Categories:
son, cheer up, mother, mother
Form:
Narrative
Submerged In Shallow StreamsShimmering silhouettes haunt.
Shadow stands still,
observing his soul drift towards
the tree of melancholy.
Its morbid image stands silent,
but screams inside the mind.
I could write a...
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Categories:
angst, death, father son,
Form:
Free verse
The Game, Playing the Game'I want you to use all your powers and your skills
I don’t want his mother to see him like this
Look, look how they massacred my...
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Categories:
loss, son,
Form:
Free verse