Father's Day Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry for Father's Day. This list of fathers day poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. These are poems which celebrate and honor our fathers, fatherhood, and the influence of dads in the community. The paternal bonds commemorated by this holiday are just one aspect of Father’s Day because there are father figures, grandfathers, and mentors who also have an extraordinary impact on the lives of others. Read
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My HeroA hero is a person who 'encourages',
That 'hero' is my beacon light;
Everyone has a her, say it fictional or a non-fictional one,
I've one who's non-fictional one, and I call him 'Daddy'!
He...
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Categories:
fathers day, 8th grade, dad, family,
Form: Free verse
Melodies of LifeFree as a mockingbird singing
No kids in sight and unmarried
Had one husband, but now none
Colleges broaden my horizon
Learning about the world
Heartache and heartbreak
Lost in the frenzy of despair
To death and grief
Lost the grip of my...
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Categories:
fathers day, age, america, character, father
Form: Free verse
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IVPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
fathers day, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IIIPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
fathers day, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IIPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
fathers day, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
fathers day, father, father daughter, father
Form: Rhyme
Courage That Inspired AweA crystal-clear picture! The embodiment of courage!
An unsung Warrior, vigorously protecting uprooted, heart-broken kin, and many shelterless,
After a devastating partition of the homeland!
A man in his prime, giving up dreams of comfort, luxury, indulgence,
Embraces a life of...
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Categories:
fathers day, courage, dedication, family, fathers
Form: Free verse
Ode to my fatherEach day of life
Our minds are set to get that which brings joy to the heart
Not that which had been from birth of the earth in Eden
Created free to explore the love of a father
Whose...
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Categories:
fathers day, appreciation, birthday, encouraging, father
Form: Ode
Fathers dayI don't get this day
Everyday is Father's day
I dont need a card...
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Categories:
fathers day,
Form: Haiku
An Old Flannel ShirtAn old flannel shirt with two button up the front pockets
Well-worn, soft, in faded colors of greens, reds, and blues.
A touch of green, and some bits of yellow, almost Christmas like.
It was my father’s favorite...
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Categories:
dad, fathers day, miss
Form: Prose Poetry
A Memory From Behind Our SofaShe was saying some words while I
rather
Small behind the familiar sofa sat with
a couple of somethings I
Can not recall while the
words were falling out of her
mouth like little Pandora's
Jars ready to crack at the...
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Categories:
fathers day, children, emotions, family, fathers
Form: Rhyme
WHAT YOU BELIEVE RUNS YOUR LIFE
There once existed, upon this earth.
A people, happy~ not possessed with depavity, destruction of cities,
murder and dearth.
But a truly evil being and his kind, infected
Unknowing, arrogant, atheistic, mankind.
He nuked their souls till they were all...
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Categories:
abuse, america, fathers day,
Form: Couplet
Care Givers and TakersIt is 2 pm
on a hot and humid Sunday
in June.
I am cleaning walls
and floors,
cabinets
and doors,
and laying newly steamed rugs
in a new place
of one floor living
more suitably down-sized
from three floor struggling
for my disabled son
and aging...
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Categories:
fathers day, caregiving, community, earth, father
Form: Political Verse
Why We Are HereWhy are we here?
my oppositional daughter
defiantly asks.
Because we're not over there?
her appositional dad
too often
and frustratingly
responds.
Sogyal Rinpoche writes
"To embody the transcendent
is why we are here."
I doubt my daughter
would find this more satisfactory,
sounds like more patriarchal...
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Categories:
father daughter, fathers day,
Form: Political Verse
Father FigureAn agonizing decision's consequence
Has left him second guessing
Scattered pieces of his heart
Are cause of two things missing
Two precious littles came into his life
When he began dating their mother
They soon became his pride...
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Categories:
father, fathers day, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Fathers Day Poems
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