Dad Free Verse Poems
These Dad Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Dad. These are the best examples of Free Verse Dad poems written by international poets.
November SkyWe stood at the edge
of the back yard,
next to the garage—
where I’d pretended to be
an astronaut in a
cardboard spaceship—
on a chill November night,
watching Sputnik II
arc...
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1st grade, dad, dog,
Saladin's HeadUnder the solar system
in our basement I sat,
copying schematics of
superheterodyne radios
from a book on electronics,
while my dad, across from me,
stood at his drawing board
illustrating...
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Categories:
4th grade, art, childhood,
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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Categories:
cancer, dad, devotion, father,
To the Strongest Woman I've Ever KnownTo the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
The brightest light in every
Room, Church,
Hall and building
That she
Ever entered.
To the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
You never knew
How...
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Categories:
anxiety, grandmother, grief, growing
Wishful Glimpses Through Timeworn WindshieldsI would
Wish you
The worst
But yours
Came true
First
Feels like
That red light
Gets longer every day
Though I can’t
Help but...
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Categories:
break up, imagery, moving
The scars they left usHe reflected on the life he had lived
Staring out the window watching his kids with his grandkids
They were his greatest gifts
He also felt...
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Categories:
discrimination, granddaughter, grandfather, prejudice,
Boys Don’t Break -But I Did-They say boys don’t cry.
They say it like a promise.
Like strength is stitched in our skin at birth
and weakness is something
you have to unzip your...
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Categories:
depression, gender, happiness, happy,
LegerdemainThe magician wore
my mother’s perfume
and conjured family
from thin air—
a brother renamed uncle,
a wife recast as mother,
a daughter vanishing
behind a tale of bees.
Each...
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Categories:
confusion, family, growing up,
My Dad So GrandMy Dad! My Dad with hands so grand
whether shapely straight as a clarinet
or conical as a saxaphone. He blows
through a woody-reed, his tongue
not lashing at...
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Categories:
fathers day,
From the Gutters to GraceI came from the cracked earth,
where sirens sang lullabies
and gunshots kept rhythm
like a mother’s heart—
fast, then gone.
We ate what we stole,
slept where we fell,
and called...
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Categories:
anger, change, city, dad,
IntermentIn fifth grade, I earned first place
statewide for violin
against the girl I half-loved—
her fingers quicker,
her lineage more illustrious—
but that day,
mine did not tremble.
She chose a...
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Categories:
5th grade, celebration, childhood,
Family menYou may know — she screamed a lot,
But you may not know that he was still holding her along.
They say, and they...
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Categories:
boy, community, dad, for
Colonizing MarsYour car fishtailed in the slush
that was already
beginning to freeze,
as if you couldn’t wait
to get away after
dropping me off at
the library
on Christmas...
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Categories:
childhood, christmas, dad, family,
I Fear the ship is sinkingI am not one to keep a sinking ship afloat,
nor am i one to captain a drowning crew.
Sacrificing self for an inevitable end is a...
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Categories:
corruption, dad, family, relationship,
52 days but almost 8 months
there's a movie i used to watch over and over as a kid
it's why i love old glass and putting flowers in coke bottles...
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Categories:
12th grade, absence, confusion,