Fathering Poems | Examples

Fatherhood

Fathers are familiar with their children

Attitudes of responsility are mandated

Teaching is best learned from modeling

Heaven painted  perfect fatherhood pictures

Every action and word should be weighed

Respect can be demanded when earned

Heroes of children should be their parents

Offering prayers for our children is a must

Obligations to kids should never be a chore

Dedicated fathering is to train and give our best

the rich and my English brother

My English Brother and the Rich
I find it impossible to be envious of the wealthy, buying superyachts one bigger than the other, when they get seasick at the thought of sailing out to sea
Marrying a busty blond with big knockers often taller than themselves, or buying a newspaper and dictating their political views that frequently consist of sour grapes  
Some very rich people indulge in sexual fantasies of the sort a 16 old might have and visit an island 200 times to satisfy their depravity and live in fear of being exposed
I know of a mega wealthy man, whose dream is to be the first human on the planet Mars to colonize the place in case our earth burns Is he going to take his 14 children along?
My father, although working class, was not unlike these people there was always one more woman to sleep with and I now learn he spent the war years in UK fathering a child
I hope it was a boy, my own brother died young, mind my English brother must be 80 by now, in a terraced home freezing, since the pensioners lost the winter benefit

The Fathers

The holders of custom and bearings
The teachers of manners and sayings 
The steerers of the leanings and standings
The givers of surnames and blessings
The fabric that makes priests and kings 
Are fathers in their fatherhood and fathering 

You are both shield and guide
In whom sons and daughters confide
You are both scion and pride
Of the society you are placed to abide
You are both the breadth and stride 
Of your kind’s spread; far and wide 

Be today celebrated but ever honored 
For all you have selflessly offered 
Good and faithful service unwaivered 
May your steps be Divinely ordered 
And likewise armed and armoured
For whatever storm to be weathered 

God be present in your sunshine and rain 
God give you joy for your pain
May all your toils bring you gain
Scale hills as though traversing plains
And all in all firmly remain 
Godly and righteous without stain

HAPPY FATHERS DAY.

K. Muitherero

Fathering Tears

The semen of tomorrow’s rage
burning undelivered 
waiting for perdition's womb
vengeance baptized—christened tears

The seed that carries darkness on
planted in the shadows
hiding what we most despise
hatred pregnant—birthing fear

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)

Historical 'Meta' For Re-Legioning

roman times meant...
roam'n soldiers
conquered villages...

by killing the men and
fathering a...
next generation of

soldier-sons to sacrifice...
themselves for
sake of the empire...

first the father
and then the son...
became wholly ghost


stans sand

Death Is Life

When I fall
Is unlike you
Your own flaw
Disown me laugh  

Im not just 
Please stop bothering
Wrongs may combust
Life keeps fathering 

When gnat bites
Don't kill it
Or set fights 
Though it's unfit

Check the cranny
The bulky nook 
Care like nanny 
Study Holy Book 

Life- a coin
You have head
And tail adjoin 
Without any thread

Strike a balance
With determined reason
Over pleasing abeyance 
In all season

Repent ye now
More after earth 
Is another life
Death don't kill

There, wrongs avow
No any rebirth
Hope may strife 
Only grace instill

Fearful Graham and Fearless Abraham

He is The-Easily-Frightened Graham,
His Natural Father Amram Abraham;
Like Lord God’s Abraham could farm
But unlike him could kill or harm
Either with his right or left arm
Normally meant for just his farm …

And harmed he did A Sir Wickham 
In his hand, a harvested yam
And he was sure “One from my farm!”
His challengers misery like a balm:
A Wickham bearing Bowls of Alm
And until then, not keep quite calm …

So tough This Guy for David’s Psalm 
Or baring a prayerful palm
That I agreed with a Doctor Sam,
Also, a Zealous First-Rate Ham
About DNA Test for Graham
On his fathering by Abraham.

Luck

Fathering a baby after surrendered hopes,
Alive remaining after wearing the ropes,
The Surviving Staff of a job- relieving Shuffle,
A beggar winning a million dollar raffle.
 
A chance to live again from a charity medication,
A missing valuable finding in a busy location,
A free ride t a far- off town,
Whose trekking would we invited a frown.

Free bottles of one’s choice drinks
At a time of aggressive thirst but no chinks,
Fortune smiling at one in a neighborhood
One Next-door had yet to oblige one brotherhood,
Goodies at one ceaselessly rushing,
After dumping a job and about thrashing.

Grace-driven luck makes a somebody,
Of a written-off nobody.

Fatherhood Twice Over

Six children alive and sired
Fathering three and tired
The other three reject me
A traitor in me, they see

Married once; now again
My sanity to regain
At what cost to the kingdom
My rejection of martyrdom 

The natural man waxes and wanes
The spiritual man rises to higher planes
I asked for as many as the stars
To assuage my emotional scars

Hidden Beneath

Never did a fire so fierce
Blow across the land
That same land
His heart did grow
Nourished by his sweat and toil
No more
The morning mist
Will hear his weathered voice 
Call his horse
Com'orn
His mark
Has been scorched from its soil
And how that land
Greens, grays
And blacked haze
With gusts of wind
And rumpled hills
The fathering face
Of this dead man
Hidden beneath

If Bombs Have Families

( after Yehuda Amichai measured the diameter of a bomb)

At times I have this curious feeling that
I am married to a bomb.
But then, I often ponder, I am not even distantly
Related to any explosive tribe.
How come, then, I am spousing an IED?
I am not even a bullet, for heaven's sake.
My bomb is pregnant.
But I am afraid of fathering baby bombs.
But I am cornered by bomb makers.
I shouldn't have voted for you.
I should have known, better than sulphur,
That in the chemistry of explosions
Beating of hearts, of love and its inhabitants,
Could, at least, pacify or divert
Projectiles of missiles from harming hearths,
If bombs have families.

Faerie Wing Blessings

Faerie wing blessings for the believer girl who lives here
In the forest, inside a giant moss-covered hill, surrounded by
delicate mushrooms with dainty stems, and overgrown meat.

Faeries congregate to watch her sleep, through the tiny round
window she clawed out when she first arrived, escaping a mean
man, who was step-fathering her in an unloving way.

Faeries protect her softly, giving her inspiring dreams, and 
hopeful poetry, to keep her safe, and to love her softly, and gently.
Leaving wild strawberries, and apples on her doorstep, showering her
with kindness.

Faerie wing blessings are given nightly for all of the innocents who are hurt or maimed or killed by stepfathers or stepmothers. Maybe not body-killed, but soul-killed, by selfishness and greed, or ignorance.

Faeries congregate to float hope and love and optimism into the windows of the gentle-hearted, to keep them dazzling innocent and pretty with their heart-souls, and to nurture them when no one else is doing this.

Faeries step aside quickly when angels are about, as they take over, and whisk the little souls back to the most nurturing place of all, loving them gently......

No Great Expectations

The ruling party's eternal line: Warriors brightly shine, 
Their battlefield triumphs necessarily fine.
Yet crown them as statesmen, heroics diminish,
Often resulting in ignominious finishes.

Caesar defeated Pompey, returning home to cheers,
Ambition rent them on 'kind Brutus' dagger of tears.
George Washington led America in battle victorious,
Before fathering scores of slave-offspring inglorious.

Andrew Jackson cut down Indian raiders -- so daring and risky,
Fueled by his addiction to grain alcohol whiskey.
Up San Juan Hill Teddy Roosevelt's Horsemen did charge,
As roughly as into the White House he later did barge. 

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And now that military heroes no longer become Presidents--
Only foibles and flaws distinguish current Oval Office residents.

White Witches In the Wind

Up the dark and barricaded staircase
With a monitor well focused between their legs
They came to digest an Ego
Caress ten long fingers aflame at the tips
Imbibe bright juice
Heal a chequered heart
Mount the focussed quartz
Don the weathered leather
Flip geopathic stress
As African heroes from the past
Stare through windows draped in white satin

They smooth peppercorn hair
In ecstacies of bliss as delicate oil
Flare their nostrils, ignite their liver
While township youth play dice upstairs
Modelling their future on one man alone
As ten jazz tunes are whistled from corners

The piano remains covered in velvet
With a white knight trying some stunts
And a wizard talks tales of Mecca
Fathering some orphans watching TV
Then prays on centre stage......
They twist locks and slit bars/

Violet suns streams in
All is touched with gold as he glances
At their toes, skirmishes their
Breasts in figures of 8
On a path to the Beyond
White witches in the Wind

( View Recital of poem by Poet on YouTube @ghairodanielspresence )

A Father Is

A true character
Who replenishes all of our needs 
That holds us best and picks you up
Even at your weakest moments
So that we do not go hungry 
Or sleep unclothed 
He who gives us the ability to find strength
When setbacks are apart of life 
I was taught to value myself 
And the solid lessons in limitations that this journey would bring 
He believes the depth in his being
This creation would never be broken
Because an emphasis on fathering would never be absent
I am a creation in the making 
To measure up to something 
Which he molded me 
Until I know all he knows 
He is exactly what he is needed to be
A father, who will die to protect
A man with nothing to lose
One with no words
That speaks so much volume
And a smile in trouble
Who gathers strength from distress
To place his family as the most important thing in his life
He is  cautious with the actions and decisions 
He makes so he won't have to be responsible for their pain
He is all

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