Best Father Poems
Below are the all-time best Father poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of father poems written by PoetrySoup members
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:
father, introspection, words,
Form:
Free verse
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
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
The HomecomingIt was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...
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Categories:
america, father, home, mother,
Form:
Narrative
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:
blue, dad, depression, father
Form:
Free verse
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:
abuse, childhood, emotions, father,
Form:
Narrative
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
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
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
Categories:
appreciation, beauty, father, inspiration,
Form:
Monoku
To The Dad I Once Knew* Note My dad passed away today, a little over seven months since my mom passed. After a thirty year estrangement my dad and I...
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Categories:
1st grade, death, father,
Form:
Elegy
Categories:
dream, father daughter, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
death, faith, family, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Longing For Father's LoveI am not a father
nor I am a mother
I am just a daughter
that is growing better...
Father, you have been away
I truly wish you have stayed
Hugging...
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Categories:
father, absence, care, child, dad,
Form:
Ballad
Things That Seemed PoeticThings that seemed poetic were
always sad, though I yearned for
glitter and my dad's guffaw, which
never came. Familiar things were
always drear -- repeated motions
in...
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Categories:
father, angst, childhood, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse