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Dad Iambic Pentameter Poems

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


Premium Member Haunted
There is a time in life we might regret
in missing opportunities to learn
that which we thought somehow could be offset
since living current days was our...

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Categories: daughter, miss you, mother,



Premium Member Her Soulful Prayer
A friend of ours just passed away this year-
     a special man within our senior set.
His daughter prayed to God that...

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Categories: death, father, heaven, inspirational,

Premium Member A Special Birthday
June twelfth, two thousand twelve, a special date
     when all our family had gathered near
to offer tribute and to celebrate,
 ...

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Categories: birthday, husband, tribute,

Premium Member That Night
"Live life to fullest, as it seems-
      but, leave unlocked your door of dreams."
      ...

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Categories: blessing, dream, parents, remember,

Premium Member Three Wishes
I summon Genie from Aladdin's lamp
Requesting he fulfill his wishes three -
I think of children (eyes becoming damp),
Wish 1: please Genie, end their poverty.

Then, contemplating...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, father, mother, poverty,



Death Invites No Fear
(blank verse)


Not long, but clear and strong, came Dad to me.
His death was tear-fresh grief most numbing new.
Dad's words steered me away from tragedy
And gave...

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Categories: death, fear, spiritual,

Memories Are Immortal
We are all equal, though they say you lad
who do they think they are they're not my dad,
on battle fields we live or die the...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, grief, war, ,

Goodbye Dear Mother
Under the twilit moon she sat and thought,
why on earth her mother and dad fought.
Wishing she never heard the angry words,
through the pain she knew...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addiction, goodbye, mother daughter,

A Chibok Dream
In Chibok once, I met a maid, three hundred was her name.
Brim-filled with hope and not afraid, her life like sheets was plain.
She had a...

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Categories: abuse, africa, daughter, prison,

Premium Member The Hidden Stone
The Hidden Stone

Mossy vines served as camouflage for
   the decaying headstone buried there below.  
A hidden stone that peeked from the earth...

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Categories: grave, mystery, tribute,

Silent the Night
He walked silently along the pocked wall,
Carefully measuring each soft footstep.
His enemy waited for one mistake;
He watched the young man from two clicks away -
His...

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Categories: blessing, deep, goodbye, love,

Villainous Volcano
To be related to a volcano,
Groomed to stifle oceanic ember,
Doomed to love less, so fearful to love her,
The dragon is feared even in slumber,
It's beautiful...

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Categories: anger, angst, dad, family,

Premium Member The Rose
The Rose


Dear Dad- I plucked a crimson rose that lay
upon your grave, as icy rain fell down
and joined my warm, wet tears that winter day.
Unto...

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Categories: death, god, mystery,

Will You Please Just Try
I won’t, I won’t, no, I will not, not cry!
God, I can feel You, will You please just try
To get my Mom and Dad to...

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Categories: angst, child, faith, family,

Pop's Death
He died so many years from old  Blue Ridge
That all we knew of roots were faded names
Renewed in happy tales and banjo songs
He carried...

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Categories: dad, death,


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