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Soldier Father Poems

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


Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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Categories: father, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,



Elegy to a promised land
In the quiet twilight, we gather here today,  
To honor my dad, remember him, and pray.  
From the promised land, he flew with...

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Categories: america, culture, dad, father,

Confess if I dare
Dare me to diagnose my condition?
 
I'm diagnosed with depression
Or rather does depression have me
Even the sad rain cries for me
Or do I cry because of...

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Categories: addiction, depression, father, identity,

Premium Member Moved to Tears
  People ask me what it's like to be the parent
    of a young man who serves in Gaza

  I...

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Categories: father son, hero, pride,

S and S
"For as long as they can remember, the burden to protect and provide have all that has been on their minds
Family members at the fore...

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Categories: confidence, family, father, work,



Premium Member A Tender Goodbye
The brave son goes off to war
     visions of victory in his eyes

   His father mouths a tender goodbye
...

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Categories: cry, farewell, father son,

Purple Heart: In Honor of My Father
I was a young man at the age of nineteen
When I was sent to a country on the other side of the world that I...

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Categories: courage, dad, dedication, father,

The Seeds of Yearning
With World War II finally over, the soldier returned home to Tennessee.
To his previous life and his young, loving wife
But what once was two now...

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Categories: emotions, family, father son,

Premium Member Tears Will Console
He went to war each morn
Armed with thermos and lunch pail
Gearldine wasn’t his firstborn
As a girl – just a tomboy with a pigtail

He knew her...

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Categories: father, addiction, dad, daughter, death,

Premium Member Someday
Someday

When I grow up, 
I want to be... like my father. 
He serves in the military, 
and helps other people 
around the world. 
He fights...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: america, angel, family, father,

Letter To My Father
*LETTER TO MY FATHER*

 
Dearest Father
With heart ripped into rags and shreds I write ? to you tonight
Trembling hands and ink made of tears and...

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Categories: father, betrayal, depression, emotions, fairy,

My Son, Far Away
My Son, Far Away

In the sunny gloom of this
ocean of burning Earth,
the scythe of time hovers like
a hungry vulture above us
men of "honorable" duty, but...

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Categories: death, father, father son,

Epistle To a Soldier's Daughter
EPISTLE TO DAUGHTER OF A SOLDIER

When all hopes fade,

I alone carry my pain,

There may be so many colours,
 But I'm coloured in blood red stain

I'm...

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Categories: father daughter,

Premium Member Said the Orphan To the General
So much lost - so little gained - time after time after time -


While planning out a strike one day, a boy ‘round nine years...

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Categories: father, death, war,

Father In Law War Operations
Unescorted NYC HMT NY 660 Louis Pasteur started out from 
New York  Harbor Nov. 30, 1944. 

Landed in Liverpool, England Dec. 8th, 1944. Arrived...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: father, allegory, analogy,


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