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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 Go Fish The Big One
Remember as a child playing cards,
Go Fish?
A child's life and fishing go together,
dreaming about catching the big one.
How big is the big one?
At what age...

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Categories: child, dad, fish, fun,



The boy who wasn’t picked
He sits in the back.
Not because he wants to—
but because he’s tired
of being picked last
when he dares to show up at all.

You don’t see him.
Not...

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© arno niem  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depression, farewell, for teens,

HIS LAST WORDS
The world, my son
is one big market
people buying, people selling
some winning, some just walking through.

I was once a loud voice in it
Trading dreams, chasing deals
but...

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Categories: 12th grade, dad, death,

Tribute to Malcolm
A tribute to Malcolm 
Malcolm Jamal Warner 
Was his name 
Heaven sure did gain 
An angel on earth 
Now he's  up in the skywatching...

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Categories: appreciation,

Premium Member SUNDAY MORNING DRIVE
SUNDAY MORNING DRIVE*
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Sunday morning drive~
     no maps, no rush, 
          just the...

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Categories: 12th grade, nostalgia,



Premium Member What Once Was
Fragments of a house foundation
blacken by the fire.
Never rebuilt
empty lot nice size
Good shade tress and high grass
Potential promising
Did a child perish here?
People once resided
Old swing...

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Categories: future, hope, life,

Premium Member Summer Carnival
He handed me the air-brushed t-shirt
and I thanked him, said I loved it.

He asked, Do you mean that?
I said, What would have possessed me
to utter...

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Categories: relationship,

Premium Member Chella
The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl...

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Categories: childhood, feelings, friend, history,

If God was a woman
If God were a Woman
But, He ain’t
The Bible tells me so
He wouldn’t abandon His children
Like a deadbeat Dad
Create stars to foster kin
Use child labor to...

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Categories: allah, christian, death, god,

Premium Member Dad: Life Well Lived of a Good Man
A good man walks through life with quiet strength, carrying himself with dignity while lifting others along the way. He speaks with honesty even when...

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© Deb Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: character, father,

Premium Member Identity Madonna Tribute
She’s not me, 
She doesn’t have my name. 

Instant transformation,
but chic jeans just don’t fit. 
It’s body chemistry,
my scent on her? Rancid.

Baby I’m a trademark,
that’s...

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Categories: emotions, feelings, music, tribute,

Premium Member Secondhand Smoke
Swirling smoke and tobacco cheeks;
leave no glass on the patio. Plastic
water bottle filled to the gills with butts.
children don’t care -
off
in their own world. generation...

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Categories: environment, family,

Premium Member Grace
I tried,
I tried really really hard.
To be good enough, smart enough.
I became who he wanted me to be,
a good son who praised him.
Still that wasn’t...

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Categories: abuse, anxiety, celebration, christian,

Premium Member Mummy
So what’s your excuse for a blind date?
My boyfriend cheated on me, what’s yours?
Caught my mum in bed with my girlfriend.
Did you say anything?
No, she...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: funny, mother son,

Insight, a Soliloquy
Insight must be difficult for you when you’re wounded so easily. You can’t show it, of course, to show your scars and flaws would be...

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Categories: abuse, dad, family,


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