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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.


Separation
Her newborn girl wasn't given to her
for the crucial skin to skin contact
instead the nurses took the baby away
and returned the daughter back to the...

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Categories: family, sad,



My Fake Daughter, My True Friend, Lauren
At twenty-six, a gentle flame,?
A golden heart, a glowing name.
?With grace she walks, with light she stands,
?A scholar's mind, with helping hands.

What once began with...

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Categories: family, appreciation, best friend, confidence,

Illegitimate Child
I was born in absence—
not just of a father,
but of the myth of one.
Raised by silence,
I searched for manhood
in shadows and wounds.

My name is Oedipus...

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Categories: family, character, child, childhood, children,

No Gentle Hands
The master cracks his whip
across the horse’s trembling flank,
pushing the beast to its limits
until the wildness snaps and the horse reacts,
a flurry of chaos beneath...

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Categories: family, abuse, analogy, animal, anxiety,

Betrayal of The Sun
There was a time
when you stood at the center of my sky,
and I, small, humble,
gazed upward in awe,
letting your brilliance shape my world.
Every word you...

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Categories: family, absence, anger, betrayal, child



A Father’s Lament to Obama
My son,
When the ancestors lit the candle of your destiny,
We sang for you in the wind,
We carved your name into the stars
And called you Moses...

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Categories: betrayal, family, father son,

Premium Member Wrongful Life Claim Against My Father
They filed his blood beneath a numbered case—
the marrow went to war without a call.
The VA counted cells, not what took place
in basements where his...

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Categories: america, death, family, war,

Growing up is hard
I think the hardest things
Are about letting him hurt 
When I know the suffering is real. 
Letting him choose to do what he can
And can't
And...

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Categories: devotion, family, father, growth,

Insight, a Soliloquy
Insight must be difficult for you when you’re wounded so easily. You can’t show it, of course, to show your scars and flaws would be...

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Categories: abuse, dad, family,

Boots, Love, and alien diplomacy
Boots, Love, and Alien Diplomacy

My love is five five, a sturdy delight,
With eyes like warm coffee just kissed by the night.
His hair oh, it's brown,...

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Categories: blessing, family, father, for

Premium Member Loretta
She might have painted the sea—
or a golden field of wheat
beneath a hazy summer sky—
but he took her brushes,
left the bristles splayed,
the paints dried out,
and...

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Categories: art, devotion, family, father,

Defeat
he is not cut out to live with all of this-
to live while bearing the scars
countless of spears in his chest
yet still breathing
blood all over...

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Categories: family,

Stars
his blood boils in rage
the words out of that man's mouth
were always laced in poison

haunting this feeling was
for someone recovering from a loss
the stars that...

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Categories: family,

Bones Remain Alive
Loitering around at the expense
of my parents back, 
I too wish to be at the resemblance 
of hardworking thumbs, 
those same fingers that sewed 
the...

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Categories: death, family, farm, growing

A Poem For Daddy
He's an old man now,

it's strange but it's true, 

he'll be sixty six this year, 

when the Winter is new, 

All I can say, is...

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Categories: family, age, poetry,


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