Best Daughter Poems
Below are the all-time best Daughter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of daughter poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Daughter of the North Wind Sings In Soprano
In riming realms
of crystal contemplations -
frozen water-vapor meditations
and chilled flutes
filled with zodiacal-light musings
of ancient cosmic dust
dancing in the arms of Sol..
windswept...
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Categories:
daughter, passion, snow, winter, woman,
Form:
Imagism
As Father Is To His DaughterPassing through framed windows like ours,
I recall your tales of reckless war and lost friends
that burned your innocence at 21... and though
you claimed flashes of...
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Categories:
daughter, father, introspection, words,
Form:
Free verse
A Tear-Ful Conversation With My DaughterIt starts with only one -
one like me
a melancholy migrant
from the immortal part of her
to the locus of her physical being --
the center of her...
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Categories:
daughter, i love you, i
Form:
Free verse
Homeless Mans Love For His DaughterA homeless man played his guitar,
for coin rewards put in a jar.
A lonely life he always led,
but in his heart a love he had.
...
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Categories:
dad, daughter, fate, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...
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Categories:
betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not...
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Categories:
appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
DaddyDaddy
Daddy, why did you go away?
Don't you know I wanted you to stay!
Daddy, when you left mom,
Don't you know you left me too?
Now all I...
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Categories:
daughter, blue, dad, depression, father
Form:
Free verse
A Father's SacrificeI loved you the first day
I saw those big brown eyes blinking,
taking in your first moments of life.
Not a tear nor a little scream,
you seemed...
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Categories:
appreciation, dad, daughter,
Form:
Prose
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:
age, daughter, father daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Can Argue Miracles ExistWho Can Argue Miracles Exist?
No man, be he grandiloquent or coarse;
be he...
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Categories:
daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Quietude and BoomI decorate a grotto for you, Mama
where orchids and holy images
embellish this special place and day,
that saintly icons guard you there
as if they beg me...
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Categories:
devotion, mother daughter, sound,
Form:
Free verse
Tissue Boxlike visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...
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Categories:
child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form:
Free verse
A Tribute To DaddyYou were the oak in our family tree,
With roots that were strong and true,
Holding on so tenaciously
No ill wind could topple you.
We nestled under your...
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Categories:
dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Rhyme
CrushedLook past
the faded little girl braids and bows
in a polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt
curtsying ...
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Categories:
daughter, death, family, memory,
Form:
Free verse