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Father Poems | Examples of Father Poetry

Premium Member GREAT DAYS OF YORE
GREAT DAYS OF YORE My father was a plumber and more. He is gone now with much forlorn. I miss his advice and lore. A leak sparked memory of those days of yore. Advice I seek to fix my aching heart. ...

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Categories: 12th grade, father, memory,
Form: Nonet
Gloomy international waters
Let sail this doom and gloom Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter In the morning head up the gangplank The hours till I lay down is a lifetime I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons How will I lay my aching head at night? Isn’t it how I’ll wake up young again? I’m a sailor heading to international waters Fuel in my belly...

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Categories: addiction, depression, father son,
Form: Free verse



An amazing family
In a world that spins both fast and wide, There’s one sweet place where hearts abide. Not built of brick, nor stone, nor gold— But love and laughter, strong and bold. A family, stitched with threads so tight, That even storms can't dim their light. With arms that hug, and eyes that see The best in you, and let you be. They fight...

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Categories: father, fathers day, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Father I praise you holy name
Father I praise you Holy name You are worth to be Praise Also I hope you keep me Alive every day Because I hope to be Alive every day I just want to be A part Of you life Every morning I Wake up with the Winter blues Can you please Father Remove the Winter blues From my life Also Father don't think I am a liar Because that is not me Father I...

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Categories: father, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Happy Father's Day
To the man who stood so tall, Who picked me up with every fall. In life’s loud storm or silent pain, You stood like shelter in the rain. When nights were long, and hopes ran low, You still believed and let it show. You taught me how to fight, to stand, To build my dreams with steady hand. Behind your silence was endless...

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Categories: 11th grade, family, father,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My 46th Father's Day
On my 46th Father’s Day I’d finally have my say For I’d heard the pleasantries before they all seemed like cliches Ties...

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Categories: father, fathers day, giving,
Form: Couplet
YOU WILL KNOW YOUR DAD
You will know your dad when you too became a dad! You shall feel glad when you realize, he was your launch pad! You will appreciate his wisdom when you shoulder responsibilities of the kingdom! You will realize his care when he was dissolved into the air! You will dearly miss him when alone, against the tides of life, you swim! You shall...

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Categories: dad, emotions, family, father,
Form: Couplet
Happy Father's Day From A Grateful Dad
To each of my children please know I love you. If you weren't my children, I don't know what I'd do. As babies and infants you brought me so much joy. Playing make believe with me as we played with your toys. Though I must admit changing diapers weren't my style. But you each got me through it with your...

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Categories: 9th grade, appreciation, father
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member REMEMBERING MY FATHER'S HANDS
MY FATHER'S HANDS I remember my father’s hands as a plumber’s hands—fiercely strong, calloused, rough, knuckle-battered, and dirty after a long-day’s work. Those hands shoveled; unclogged drains and toilets; repaired leaks; and installed pipes, commodes, and bathtubs. Those hands provided. I remember my father’s hands as a fisherman’s hands—perfectly patient, tenacious, self-confident, and unwavering as he...

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Categories: 12th grade, dad, father,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member In Your Studio
I’m on your lap in a photo I no longer have— a toddler with a borrowed brush, my hand caught mid-daub on your canvas. It was staged, of course— your painting for a calendar on the easel in front of us like the month you gave me a tool of your craft and I mistook it for permission— but my brush didn’t paint like yours. Sometimes I wonder if you...

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Categories: art, childhood, father, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member CATCH OF THE DAY
CATCH OF THE DAY Today is Father's Day. So I wrote this string of Haikus as a remembrance of my dad whose favorite past time fishing. He was a fisherman extraordinair! dawn by the river daylight has barely arrived, mist dances gently morning reverie how perfectly the songbirds fill the silence old flat-bottom boat his rod and torn fishing net – father’s calloused hands the...

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Categories: 12th grade, father, fishing,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member BE THE FATHER
Fathers… on this Father’s day…and, for that matter, every day may we do our best to be… as extraordinary a father as our children imagine and need us to be. ...

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Categories: fathers day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Father Seed O' Lord Water Me
A Father Seed ( O' Lord Water Me) I am a Seedling oh! Lord water me; You planted me in a vessel; I'm yours, your energy; O' Lord water me; And I'm in the the desert heat; O' Lord water me; Love made me Grace saved me Father planted me I am graced and loved A chosen pick seed Atop this heated earth My flesh is not...

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Categories: father, adventure, confidence, devotion, god,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Duality of Fatherhood
a secret d r e a m of peace youth making dreamers of all – amidst enemy F. I.R.E p a s s I o n s rode H I G H – he...

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Categories: analogy, father,
Form: Other
Premium Member Boyhood Dreams
A wellspring of Eternal joy Unfolds within A little boy He schemes and Dreams in Fantasies Things no man Could ever be But somewhere in His youthful eye The boy must know The man will die ...

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Categories: father, 2nd grade, boy, death,
Form: Free verse

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