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Dad Haibun Poems

These Dad Haibun poems are examples of Haibun poems about Dad. These are the best examples of Haibun Dad poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Memories of a Childhood Home
My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the...

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Categories: home, house, memory,



Premium Member LOOK AROUND YOU
There is new life everyway in the skies, trees and both in the earth and under it
Lambs skipping chasing each other then running to their...

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Categories: animal, bird, insect,

Goodnight Dad
Goodnight Dad 
I was sitting in the backyard earlier, just gazing at the stars. The sky was clear, and the moon was still asleep somewhere...

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Categories: poetry,

Premium Member Letter
Every so often I let my young self-take me back to the past. A time when I had just met my husband. We would go...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: happy, husband, love,

Premium Member The Door
Many times, I stared at it from my bedroom. Every time I looked at it, it sent chills down my spine, and it rose the...

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Categories: dad, father,



Premium Member Window Pain
Three states
in five hours.
Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice
like a KOA campground.
A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a...

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Categories: addiction, anger, anxiety, child

Premium Member Dawn's Early Light
Pop was a devoted fly-fisherman who woke in the quiet predawn hours and stumbled, blurry-eyed out of the house with his loaded thermos in his...

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Categories: dad, father, fishing,

Premium Member Ludicrous Lucidity
Yellowstone in winter. Canyon Falls, Rutherford Park, Old Faithful. Of all the places we had ever visited, this was his favorite. Josh even named one...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addiction, loss, solitude,

Premium Member With Tilted Feathers
I had a dream that I was an eagle-   flying high over vast mountains
and valleys in the morn' sky 'with tilted feathers' to...

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Categories: bird,

Premium Member If Only I Could

If only I could ... go back in time and like a mystic change my life path with 
a magic wand.  So, many things...

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Categories: life,

Premium Member Dear Memories of Youth
kickball and biking
swinging on swings at the park . . .
youth’s sweet vibrant spark

Memories of my childhood and teenage years are probably the strongest of...

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Categories: family,

Premium Member Untie the Knot
When I was very young, I learned how to tie my shoes in a tight double knot, but I couldn't untie them. I tried and...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, creation, future, humanity,

Premium Member Like a Child
sweet bundles of joy
symbols of forthright candor~
blooms in God's garden

As we traverse through the bends and curves of weary life, how we wish to retrace...

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Categories: childhood, growing up, kid,

My Son
Father and son never saw eye to eye, too much jealousy on the patriarch side 
He constantly put his son down for everything he did,...

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Categories: appreciation, son,

Evenings In Springtime : Nov 2021
Babies cry, sleep, change nappies, feed. Toddlers drink water from cups. Younger brothers, younger sister, older brother, older sister, small town, large country.
One lane roads,...

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Categories: childhood, nostalgia,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things