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Best Father Daughter Poems

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Premium Member Daddy
Daddy

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: father daughter, blue, dad, depression, father
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Visits from Heaven



                 Was it really you dad? Not merely just...

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Categories: dream, father daughter, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Longing For Father's Love
I 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 daughter, absence, care, child, dad,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Father's Legacy
You grew up going from place to place.
Folk thought you wouldn't amount to a thing.
You were a wander til you heard love calling.
Your life changed...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: father daughter, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dad's Workshop
A clutter of wood and dust and cobwebby corners,
And dappled sun shining through dirty windows;
On his work table a drawing; a project in progress,
And tin...

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Categories: father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Burn After Reading
To my daughter who never listens.

Life is not as simple as a cliché.
It's not lullabies and butterflies.
Not all sounds are soothing,
not all flowers are faithful.
It's...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: appreciation, father daughter, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Fathers Immortality
Upon waking up this day, a single tear
Father your eternal immortality 
Still proves wise and gracious
I haven’t been misled by popular opinion
Which should be taken...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: father, father daughter, feelings,
Form: Free verse
I Need Your Help Daddy
I’m tired
I’m Physically and Emotionally tired
I don’t want to be the strong one anymore
I can’t this time
I don’t know what to do Daddy
I need your...

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Categories: father daughter, absence, angst, cry, dad,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member By Default
As we rode through a fog, my father and I,
the car we were in, seemed to know its way home
Hands on the wheel, without eyes...

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Categories: father daughter, childhood, dad, death, family,
Form: Narrative
Unbroken Reconciliation
18-12-1922.                    22-12-2018
A date of birth. ...

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Categories: december, father daughter, how
Form: Free verse
A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: father daughter, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Moaning of My Heart
I laid my heart upon your grave
That winter day when trees were bare;
Their withered leaves fell down to brave
The chill of winter death and share
With...

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Categories: father daughter, death, farewell, father, father
Form: Ballade
The Little Box
There's a little box found in my room,
With heartfelt memories, I won't open soon.

 A box of pictures, to reminisce.
They break my heart, it's you...

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Categories: child, dedication, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Little Wee One - Nursery Rhyme
oh come, my dear little wee one
      what a long, full day you've had
      ...

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Categories: child, children, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs