Insight, a SoliloquyInsight must be difficult for you when you’re wounded so easily. You can’t show it, of course, to show your scars and flaws would be considered weak to you, since they can be used against you. So you hide and twist words and speak with blame and hatred. Do not show them your hurt, show...
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Categories:
abuse, dad, family,
Form: Free verse
Dad's Car Seasoned WellSummer Funny Limerick Poetry Contest
Tania Kitchin
The heat of summer in his dad's car
The son takes his date to gaze a star
Lover's lane shines on so bright
Two teenagers groins take flight
It was Dad's Chevy's best years by far
...
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Categories:
12th grade, car, dad,
Form: Limerick
A DadI get so frustrated when I think about what I lost
Or perhaps never had
I know what it should have been
What it would be like to have a dad
No one is ever
Even close to enough for you
I try so damn hard but in your eyes
All I see is a disappointed gloom...
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Categories:
12th grade, angst, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Peter Periwinkle“Peter Periwinkle had a car accident,”
my brother said,
as if reading it aloud
from the back
of a cereal box.
It took me three full seconds
to realize
he meant our father.
We were on my grandma’s farm
where she had recently died,
leaving chickens scratching
unknowingly in the dust.
Our father was elsewhere—
broken, back bent like a paperclip,
drunk at the wheel
when the other car...
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Categories:
1st grade, brother, dad,
Form: Free verse
To the Looser who Lost OutI reflect on the days-
Her first little steps, those tiny feet chasing dreams.
Her doing silly little dances on the floor,
She'd giggle, then stumble, then laughter galore.
You weren’t there when she climbed the school bus stairs.
Smiling like sunshine with a lunchbox in hand,
ready to conquer the world
before the world even knew her.
You...
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Categories:
child, children, dad, daughter,
Form: Free verse
November SkyWe stood at the edge
of the back yard,
next to the garage—
where I’d pretended to be
an astronaut in a
cardboard spaceship—
on a chill November night,
watching Sputnik II
arc across the sky.
I didn’t know why
he was rarely home—
or why it wasn’t always
like this when he was:
quiet,
steady,
present.
All I knew was the stars were out,
and he was beside me—
and Laika was...
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Categories:
1st grade, dad, dog,
Form: Free verse
Saladin's HeadUnder the solar system
in our basement I sat,
copying schematics of
superheterodyne radios
from a book on electronics,
while my dad, across from me,
stood at his drawing board
illustrating advertisements
for feed and farm equipment.
The floor was painted blood red,
the walls bandage white—
a battlefield made tidy.
The dehumidifier murmured its hymn
beneath Saladin’s ceramic gaze,
his turbaned brow inscrutable
as my father bent to...
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Categories:
dad, 4th grade, art, childhood,
Form: Free verse
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Categories:
dad, violence, war, world
Form: Lanterne
NullspaceEvery day
I walked by the dead cockroach on
The second floor’s third stair.
I was out of breath by the sixth.
On the eighth I’d stop,
And wait until my heart slowed.
I'd step out.
How was his night?
Emesis? Pain?
Did he sleep?
Evening would roll around.
I'd walk by the clock stuck at 4:52.
The elevators were faster...
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Categories:
cancer, dad, devotion, father,
Form: Free verse
Heaven is For RealEight years old in short pants clad,
I am going with my dad,
Dodger stadium, surreal -
but Heaven is for real.
Late at night, lifeguard station,
tenderness and elation -
first kiss, how does it feel -
like Heaven is for real.
It seemed I never could persuade,
but, in my dorm, that night she stayed -
Another...
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Categories:
baseball, dad, death, first
Form: Rhyme
My Dad So GrandMy Dad! My Dad with hands so grand
whether shapely straight as a clarinet
or conical as a saxaphone. He blows
through a woody-reed, his tongue
not lashing at us, but conditioned
to musically relay his love for us.
My Dad! My Dad with hands so grand.
They put together a Hammond organ.
His feet so cheerfully press the pedals,
his fingers twinkle across...
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Categories:
dad, fathers day,
Form: Free verse
Father's Day 2025If you hadn't held down a job, we would've been screwed.
If you hadn't worked, we would've had no shelter or food.
You worked hard for years to keep a roof over our heads.
You became ill in 2011 and twenty months later, you were dead.
About three years after you retired, you died at the age of sixty-five.
Even...
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Categories:
cancer, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme
YOU WILL KNOW YOUR DADYou will know your dad
when you too became a dad!
You shall feel glad
when you realize, he was your launch pad!
You will appreciate his wisdom
when you shoulder responsibilities of the kingdom!
You will realize his care
when he was dissolved into the air!
You will dearly miss him
when alone, against the tides of life, you swim!
You shall...
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Categories:
dad, emotions, family, father,
Form: Couplet
Happy Father's Day From A Grateful DadTo each of my children please know I love you.
If you weren't my children, I don't know what I'd do.
As babies and infants you brought me so much joy.
Playing make believe with me as we played with your toys.
Though I must admit changing diapers weren't my style.
But you each got me through it with your...
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Categories:
dad, 9th grade, appreciation, father
Form: Rhyme
GRATEFUL FOR KNOWING WHAT IT TAKES TO B A DAD
This Father’s day I’m grateful for remembering a truth that’s ironclad…
How any man can father a child…
but it takes time, energy love and patience
for that man to become a Dad.
...
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Categories:
dad,
Form: Rhyme
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