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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.


Premium Member November Sky
We 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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Categories: 1st grade, dad, dog,



Premium Member Saladin's Head
Under 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,

Nullspace
Every 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 Known
To 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 Windshields
I 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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© Ali Lynn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: break up, imagery, moving



The scars they left us
He 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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© arno niem  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depression, gender, happiness, happy,

Premium Member Legerdemain
The 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,

Premium Member My Dad So Grand
My 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 Grace
I 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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© Orion Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, change, city, dad,

Premium Member Interment
In 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 men
You 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

Premium Member Colonizing Mars
Your 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 sinking
I 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,


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