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.
In another life, I'd be your motherTo the world you are just a person
But to me you are the world
You are the rarest of the rare
To the point no one can...
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Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, best friend,
if i die before i awake revampedif i die before i awake
do not cry as am at heavens gate,
looking at you all down below,
showing you my love will always flow,
if you...
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Categories:
angel, bible, blessing, cry,
TIME TO SAY I’M SORRY
Do you feel you must really say sorry,
Or are you flippant, don’t give it much worry,
Do you feel out of obligation you must
Say sorry, believe...
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Categories:
god,
As an underdog given a short leash on lifeAs an underdog given a short leash on life
alternately titled give one targeted scapegoat a break,
an unquenchable thirst for moolah before I wake
from nightmare of...
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Categories:
adventure, age, america, analogy,
Aquamarine
I wear a gemstone locket aways that holds ashes
it has oceanic hues and I get lost in the endless blue
my most precious possession filling...
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Categories:
color,
Hearthstone Of Thy Fathers LoveHearthstone Of Thy Fathers Love
Fatherhood exuberant and renowned is how you boys made me feel.
Exquisite was the taste of my tears as I felt the...
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Categories:
care,
DaddyMy best friend saw me born.
Coronation of blood,
Tearing through his long beloved.
Floppy neck and flailing limbs,
Protesting my own birth.
Constricting cord,
A life noose, murderous
Cut from...
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Categories:
birth, childhood, dad, daughter,
you did a whiz bang job HoneyYou did a whiz bang job honey
An expert could not have done better
Thanks Dad, Kathy said
But I am an expert
That’s why I have doctor in...
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Categories:
humor,
Playing WarA loaf of bread, untouched, waiting for my late brother
Finally home, he takes half the loaf and hands me the other
In his hand a...
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Categories:
10th grade, family, peace,
BozoBozo
Bozo's From Your Dad
And Your Grandad
And Your Dad's GrandDad
And Off Into Finality
Where All Of Them Meet
As One, Eternally.
I Thought This
Would Be An
Apology, Though
Uh?
Weird?
Is That Backwards?
-Gray...
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Categories:
life, truth,
A Shrunken Head and Other MysteriesIn the book nook I found it—
a face no bigger than my palm,
leathered and silent,
its eyes forever pressed shut
against whatever it had seen.
Grandma said a...
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Categories:
childhood, grandmother, image, memory,
Resurrection Mondayafter fifteen years
of empty decisions,
the mirror shows
a blonde again
and i don’t recognize her
but i call my dad anyway.
he picks up with
that tired hum
and when i...
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Categories:
spring, summer,
In Memorymy father is no longer here
but I still have memories
like the letters from his high school buddies
in the armed forces
at the tail end of...
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Categories:
father, memorial day,
Hey Mom
“Hey, Mom”
Hey, Mom!
I can’t sleep.
I’ve been awake for hours.
There are dragons at my door.
“Come crawl in...
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Categories:
children, love, mom, mother,
christmasChristmas Poem
Jingle bells
The doorbell rings
Granny and grandpa
With Present for all
Jack screams then
runs down the hall
Jingle bells
Dinner ready
Granny yells
Eat till you...
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Categories:
7th grade,