Father Poems - Examples of all types of father poetry to share and read. This list of father poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. People say that fathers are the key to a prosperous family and that we cannot minimize the importance of a father. These poets have written poetry about the paternal bond between a father and son, father and daughter relationships, about a dad who passed away in death, the love children have for their father, and more. These relationships can have far-reaching social ramifications. Read
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What is a soul?Dad where is your soul?
Is it important, what's its role?
I keep reading of heart and soul
What part of me does it control?
Sweetheart it's hard to explain
It's not physical not like your brain
It is like...
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Categories:
father, 10th grade, allah, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Souls are Worth What You'd Sell forMy first enemy was one I should have loved
He claimed that he loved me but I suppose not enough
He carved the gaps in all my memories
And deprived me of what made me
A child at twelve...
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Categories:
father, abuse, death of a
Form: Free verse
Days AfterSilence spoken for by the rain—
A missing space for the missing gold of sun,
As the wind breaks on song, his china fall—
There my eyes soak up the tears now that he's gone.
A missing space for...
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Categories:
father, child, dad, death, emotions,
Form: Pantoum
Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot topHarold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top...
spry buck analogous to energizing bunny
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.
Home on the range
cacophony quite absurd
PlayBoy Bunny herd
and felt ingratiatingly inured,
nevertheless colony or nest
of doe eyed demoiselles
stewed over...
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Categories:
father, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
I wish I had--I wish I had
been kind to Dad
Mostly I tried...
but left him mad
I wanted him
to be less sad
I would prefer
to make him glad
Buy him new shirts
perhaps in plaid
However he
likes to be clad
Make him proud of
my college...
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Categories:
dad, father daughter, i
Form: Rhyme
A Delightful EncounterWalking downstairs; I see particles of light,
Shimmering in my dark brown long hair.
The light of stars is so bright that it
Envelopes all the darkness into light.
Sauntering there; I am made aware,
By the crispy clear...
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Categories:
father, childhood, dad, daughter, death,
Form: Prose
Children's Poems XIChildren's Poems XI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
To My Child, Unborn
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
How many were the nights, enchanted
with despair and...
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Categories:
child, childhood, children, father,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems XChildren's Poems X
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Always
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Know in your heart that I love you as no other,
and...
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Categories:
father, baseball, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poem VIChildren's Poems VI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
They'll have to grow like crazy,
the springtime baby geese,
if they're to...
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Categories:
father, baby, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IIIChildren's Poems III
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there...
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Categories:
father, boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IIChildren's Poems II - Lullabies
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep...
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Categories:
father, boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IThese are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same...
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Categories:
father, child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
When the world sayswhen the world says…
when the world says I am worthless,
You say I am worth it.
when the world says I am broken,
Your love makes me whole again.
When the world calls me weird
You call me Yours.
when...
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Categories:
encouraging, faith, father, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Pontius PilateYou ask of me silence as I Rome
Saint peters square gathering hymns
beneath Di Vatican where Satan sits
in solitude a prisoner of haste awaiting
a time to live a time to give malice...
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Categories:
baptism, father, feelings, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Elegy to a promised landIn the quiet twilight, we gather here today,
To honor my dad, remember him, and pray.
From the promised land, he flew with no regret,
To the fifties U.S., a different mindset.
In...
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Categories:
america, culture, dad, father,
Form: Elegy
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