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Best Paternity Poems

Below are the all-time best Paternity poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of paternity poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Absolute Truth-Full Liar
A golden coin flipped into the sky
One side is absolute truth
the other side is stamped with lies
Hope it lands right/wrong side up
so you can partially...

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Categories: paternity, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Desperate Doll
Daughter, neglected by maternity
A button missing were her eye should be
Abused and abundant by paternity
Her limb missing were her leg should be
Expected to know the...

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Categories: paternity, abuse, school,
Form: Rhyme
Rabbit Dna

Hare trigger instincts
always served Roger well
He had an oh, no-no lettuce nose — 
a hyper-keen sense   when to leave
Roger was rabbit good
at knowing...

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Categories: paternity, parents, parody, truth, wisdom,
Form: Ode
As a Dad
As a dad, who am I kidding?
I never expected that I would 
Ever be a dad. As in I did not
Think I would ever experience
Another...

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Categories: paternity, appreciation, care, caregiving, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - The Last Organ Grinder -
    The young mother died,
    before she could hold her newborn child
    Paternity was unknown
 ...

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Categories: paternity, family, fate, life, money,
Form: Narrative



As the Stomach Turns
As the world turns
my stomach does too
knowing that all my children
are confused, unemployed
and young and restless
all the day through,
and my husband of 30 years
decided to...

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Categories: paternity, humor, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Teen Pregnancy 3: the Reasons Why I'M Against Teen Pregnancy
I'm against teen pregnancy because it's a waste of time and energy. I'm against teen pregnancy because it'll alter the future of all teen boys...

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Categories: paternity, on work and working,
Form: Epic
Premium Member No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of  Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't  cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on...

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Categories: paternity, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Mama Goose
Oh mother Hubbard went to the cub bard to fetch her dog a bone
but in 2008 if he had not ate P.E.T.A would picket her...

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Categories: paternity, funny
Form: I do not know?
Insincere
Deep in the shrine, sins
Deep in the courtroom, injustice
Deep in the costume, exposure
Deep in the constitution, lawlessness

Inside the adulthood, puberty
Deep in motherhood, breastlessness
In the paternity,...

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Categories: paternity, betrayal, evil, humanity, sad,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Class Act
The simplest of starts,
A decade of revolution,
When paternity and guidance drifted apart,
With leather jacket banners marked my breakout social intrusion,
To replace the sorrowful suits and...

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Categories: paternity, grief, society, war,
Form: Rhyme
Father To Be
he never wanted to be a father
he told himself that he would do everything in his power
to fend off all possibilities of
spawning &
he lived fast,...

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Categories: paternity, life, father, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Decision
Withdrawn from this world; want not to awake.
Lucid dream; heavenly search for a sign.
If not for my good, Lord; preserve hells sake.
Give to me a...

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Categories: paternity, conflict, confusion, father, life,
Form: Sonnet
Pay Back
Back in Nineteen seventy-three
Men sowed oats and courts ruled them free
But now DNA
Can make them all pay
Their fair share of paternity...

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Categories: paternity, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Maury Povich Show
TV talk shows are very interesting. But what TV show all American viewers like most of all
is "The Maury Povich Show." Maury has been on...

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Categories: paternity, on writing and words,
Form: Name

Book: Shattered Sighs