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Dad Imagery Poems

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

The Rocking Chair That Keeps

The Rocking Chair That Keeps…

Up in the attic, there’s something or someone 
that keeps creating an eerie, dreary air: 

for the darkness is greedy
as it

Categories: imagery, mystery,

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

Categories: break up, imagery, moving

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

Categories: imagery, depression, gender, happiness, happy,

Unboxed Memories

long in the attic,
now unboxed,
treasure trove of
old Polaroid photographs;
priceless!
pulled from
the gaping mouth of oblivion.
one family album,
in particular,
sucks me into the vortex
of nostalgic memories.
instantaneously,
I'm spirited back
to

Categories: appreciation, imagery, memory, youth,

Cinnamon skies

Okay, here’s a shot at those lyrics, aiming for that Prince-meets-Brandy-ballad-with-a-Usher-hook vibe. I've opted for an AABB rhyme scheme with some internal rhymes to add

Categories: imagery, beauty, black african american,

The Red Velvet Christmas Robe

              The Red Velvet Christmas Robe
 
Oh, that special Christmas, unlike the

Categories: imagery, christmas, emotions, growing up,

Kelley

there were his baseball cards
collected in a shoebox,
his model submarines, and planes.
he paced in a restless waddle
from corner to corner in our bedroom.
he could beat

Categories: imagery, allegory, brother, for him,

My Happy Home

Hope and belief occupy the same saucer
Positive vibes released social enjoyment 
My childhood years reared with laughter
Learning with parents was a commitment

We were young and

Categories: imagery, childhood, encouraging, home, humorous,

Robert Sherriff My Little Brown Shovel

Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet - Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer

My Little Brown Shovel

My little brown shovel, weathered and

Categories: age, boy, flower, imagery,

I miss

NOTE: Sedoka syllable count is interchangeable
Ichikatauta: 
5-7-5
Nikatauta: 
5-7-5
Sedokada: 
5-7-7
5-7-7
SETUP: I was THE baby ~~0~~ They were MY babies
   The Passed

Categories: imagery, brother, death, family, father,

Shared Torch Lake

I rock in this outdoor cheap chair
Its cushion foam like ice cream
Half-eaten by the winter mice in storage
I don’t mind

Don’t need a full seat to

Categories: earth, father, imagery, nature,

Palindrome: Dumb-old-dork of Exports

Mom spilled hot stew, wets a pal, lap short-shorts,
Dad yelled its hot, loop pool pop dive exhorts,
Mom says not that sort of hot,
Pip, spiced hot

Categories: imagery, confusion, father, friend, humorous,

A Place Not Meant To Be: 08

#8:  Time's Up

Renewed, a second, their forevermore,
a bobbing pin rethreads all in red threads,
the pedals are pressed up and down the floor,
the bobbing pin

Categories: imagery, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fate,

Pearl of the Orient

This would be just prior to circa 2000. I'm guessing it's closer to the 80s, but my memory fails, The Philippines was one of three

Categories: imagery, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,

An American In Austen

A sofening touched a light aglow,
as a remote trail took a slight bend,
Saw nature pray o'er a sheet of snow,
twas but a gust of wind,

Categories: imagery, allusion, analogy, appreciation, career,