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Best Father In Law Poems

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My Dear Father-In-Law
My dear father in law

From the time we first met, I knew we would get along
It's not been a life time but our bond was...

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Categories: father in law, bereavement, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member For My Father In Law
He was a man of few words, except for what had to be heard or said,
Loving, caring and gentle this simplest of souls, proud in...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: father in law, dedication, devotion, father, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monday Monokus - Oct 2020
These were my first five "Monday Monokus":

"Three Monokus walk into a bar"  posted 28 Sept 2020

don't challenge Death to a pillow fight  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: father in law, death, humorous,
Form: Monoku
For Paulie: Rip
in this silence
the respirator breathes…
we did not know
his heart
was
still




*Inspired by Brian Strand's, Indelible Impressions contest. This was written the day after my 
Step-father-in-law passed away...he...

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Categories: father in law, death, dedication, love
Form: Tanka
Happy Father's Day


                       Happy Father'...

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Categories: father in law, father daughter, fathers day,
Form: Lyric



The Man In the Mirror
My father-in-law went through this phase with his Alzheimer's.


We’ve recently noticed that grandpa has made himself a friend,
We’re pretty sure that this one will stay...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: father in law, funny, time,
Form: Light Verse
Remembering God's Grace
The calmness settles in now
with acceptable disquietness
as we return to living life
with one less earthly vessel
dwelling lovingly among us.  
 

Silence reigning for moments
as...

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Categories: father in law, faith, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With a Flickering Lamp
Life was not a bed of roses for many women
             who, for time eternal,
            ...

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Categories: father in law, power, strength, women,
Form: Free verse
On This Day of All Days
On this day of all days
My car decided to die
It wouldn't start
It wouldn't even try
Turned the key
A click
Kicked the tire
A hiss
Walked away
With a tear in...

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Categories: father in law, anxiety, family, fear, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Heaven Just a Bit Closer Today -
You wait patiently and helplessly

                    ...

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Categories: father in law, destiny, how i feel,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Money From Heaven
My father-in-law, Frank was a man that loved to shop,	
We were two peas in a pod, we shopped til we dropped.
One spring day we decided...

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Categories: father in law, funny, heaven, humorous, husband,
Form: Rhyme
In Laws
God is the chief justice,his laws solutions

In the law making world of dreams,six people population

Father in law,mother in law,in the absence of children 

Son in...

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Categories: father in law, relationship,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member - Can'T Escape -
No thoughts, no consciousness
Echo the sound of strangled cry

Can't escape
Take my hand

The dark dungeons without the breath of life
Deeper than you can imagine

Can't escape
Take my...

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Categories: father in law, death, family, goodbye,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Elegy For My Father
Godwin Adizue Ibeh 
(1937-2017)


Mr. Godwin Adizue Ibeh
Aged 79 years
Was and is 
My beloved, doting father
“Is” because he remains
Spiritually present 
Present 
In my memory
Present 
In pictures and mementos 
Present 
In my dreams,...

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Categories: father in law, death, eulogy, father, how
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Four Lines - From a Reliable Source
If one’s mother-in-law is  a woman Hitler, the father-in-law might be a fatal whiner!

Horrible women are sure to abuse
the spouses who bow and scrape...

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Categories: father in law, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs