Best Like A Father Poems
Below are the all-time best Like A Father poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of like a 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, 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:
like a father, dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
like a father, appreciation, beauty, father, inspiration,
Form:
Monoku
Categories:
like a father, dream, father daughter, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
like a father, 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:
like a father, absence, care, child, dad,
Form:
Ballad
Things That Seemed PoeticThings that seemed poetic were always sad,
though I yearned for sparkle
and my dad's guffaw, which never came.
Familiar things were always drear --
repeated motions in the...
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Categories:
like a father, angst, childhood, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
My EyesMy eyes,
you traced the beauty of nature.
The starry sky and inky ocean,
smile of winter in the heavenly garden,
dancing of waterfall on the lap of hill
and...
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Categories:
like a father, father, mother, wife, ,
Form:
Light Verse