Family Father Poems
These Family Father poems are examples of Father poems about Family. These are the best examples of Father Family poems written by international poets.
ARE YOU MY DADDY?[Verse 1]
Dust on my boots, heat in the air
We pulled off the highway to nowhere
Two shacks, red clay, nothin’ growin’
No clean water, just pain showin’
[Verse...
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father, africa, angst, children, family,
My Fake Daughter, My True Friend, LaurenAt 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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father, appreciation, best friend, confidence,
open casketa black dress
an open casket
friends and family all around me,
trying to reach me
i couldn’t hear them, not at all
the only thing i could look...
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angst, father,
Illegitimate ChildI 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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father, character, child, childhood, children,
No Gentle HandsThe 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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father, abuse, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Betrayal of The SunThere 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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father, absence, anger, betrayal, child
A Father’s Lament to ObamaMy 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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betrayal, family, father son,
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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father, america, death, family, war,
The Burial
His days he spent pleasantly
as befit his soft upbringing
...
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business, confusion, father son,
Growing up is hardI 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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devotion, family, father, growth,
Boots, Love, and alien diplomacyBoots, 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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blessing, family, father, for
LorettaShe 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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art, devotion, family, father,
Bones Remain AliveLoitering 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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father, death, family, farm, growing
A Poem For DaddyHe'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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father, age, poetry,
NullspaceEvery day
I walked by the dead cockroach on
The second floor’s third stair.
I was out of breath by the sixth.
On the eighth I’d stop,
And...
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cancer, dad, devotion, father,