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Father Family Poems

These Father Family poems are examples of Family poems about Father. These are the best examples of Family Father poems written by international poets.

Dad by Julie Luckham

Dad, I pray for you now, in your time of passing
My memories, heartfelt and everlasting
Every night, you tucked us into bed with loving care
Now, you're...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: family, culture, father daughter, friendship,

Priceless by Brenda Chiri

Each of us are as unique 
as the universe
in fact you are even 
more rare....

How so?
What are the odds  
earth even was able 
to...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: blessing, culture, family, father,

Family Life by Rico Leffanta

To prove that she just did not care
She tossed all her clothes in the air
Her father would scream
Whilst mum ate ice cream
And the postman sighed,...

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Details | Limerick |

Categories: family, funny, hair, parents,

Uncle Aaron's Passing by ilene bauer

My father's older brother
Passed away at 95.
That's 40 more years than
His younger sibling was alive.

My father never lived to meet
His grandkids or to know
The joy...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: death, family,

No Longer Superman by M.P. Shaudd

Helped my son move into college
Just the other day
It was then that I had realized
What took my breath away

No longer was I his hero
I've become...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: dad, family, father son,

Eternal Waltz by Terry Flood

Eternal Waltz

Beside another recent lain
Dug before the morning rain
Laid in rows midst flowers and grass
Where hand-carved marble speaks of past

Blackbird seeking worm or grain
Eyes the...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: family, funeral, heaven, love,

Chester Miller's Final Fight, Part I by David Welch

In the desert waste Chester Miller looked out,
saw the rest of the gang riding back slow,
fresh from the bank job in Copperstone Creek,
a place that...

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Details | Cowboy |

Categories: family, change, conflict, courage, death,

WHAT DID GOD DO ON THE SEVENTH DAY by P.S. AWTRY

What did God do on the Seventh Day?

I think He woke them up, Adam and Eve,
“Hey, grab breakfast off a tree and let’s leave!
Come on,...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: faith, family, fantasy, spiritual,

Sabbath by Brianna Hobson

There is a pain, an ache, a sore
that only oozes 
on Sunday mornings

It's the croak of my mother's voice
the one she used to disown me
The...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: atheist, faith, family, father,

Kings of Leon by Iris Blade

The road in front of us falls away,
The radio static becomes a wall we nod our heads to,
And the car splutters along like cheap fireworks
Again...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: dad, daughter, family, father,

Loving Togy by curtis johnson

*I have Placed him on a bucket list as a person I would love to visit, and if possible, make some sense of what for...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: family, forgiveness, friendship, love,

Game over by SillyToy Boys

I burst through my kitchen door knocking down my mother in the process and said "outta the way loser".

I went down to my gamer cave...

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Details | Jueju |

Categories: family, allegory, analogy, boy, dad,

Chosen : ode to unforgotten soil by JP Thomas

I was the lucky one
The apple of his eye
He chose me to walk with him
The memories will never die

Two brothers older, two sisters younger
And I...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: art, childhood, deep, family,

Decade Of The 80's by curtis johnson

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: america, family, history,

The Buck Stops Here by curtis johnson

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: bible, christian, family, father,

Cousin Tallie by Rhona McFerran

My cousin Tallie
was a real-life
award winning
beauty queen
from age six to eighteen

The kind who seems
a cardboard cut-out
Southern stereotype
all big hair and hype
manicured nails and
well arranged...
assets
but in...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: abuse, community, family, growing

Summertime Driving Lessons by Edward Ibeh

Ah, my unforgettable teenage years! The fun driving lessons
In the summertime, many moons ago with my dearly departed father

Those lingering, precious, magnolia-scented memories 
Perennially haunting...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: family, father, me, memory,

talked to dad by cs parker

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Talked to dad
In my dreams
I’ll see him
On the out
And tell him
It’s no big deal
He didn’t visit
Or write
Just glad he’s back
In my life
...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: america, family, father,

Summer Rhyme by Wren Rushing

Summer releases my inner child, 
 with days spent freely running wild.
Basking on sun kissed beaches
 and building castles with sand I've piled.

Wetting a hook...

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Details | Rubaiyat |

Categories: beach, family, father son,

Forgetting Where You Came From, Part II by David Welch

...“While I march for justice in our neighborhood,
you were out here running ’round in the woods.
While I protested to bring about change,
you sold out to...

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Details | Narrative |

Categories: brother, change, family, growing