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Dad Loneliness Poems

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


Premium Member The Buffalo
No one’s exactly sure how this buffalo in the 1960s
Found its way to live in the heart of the city
How it separated from a sky...

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Categories: loneliness, animal, city, earth, endurance,



My missing piece
Oh I’m looking for my missing piece
Hi-dee ho, here I go 
It’s been two days since you left
It feels like I’ve been rolling for centuries
You’re...

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Categories: loneliness, bereavement, child, dad, growing

Premium Member Mockingbird
MockingBird

  Mockingbird can't fly,
  Mockingbird can't sing,
  She's not allowed to do anything.
  Cold naked, all alone, 
  in dark...

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Categories: loneliness, betrayal, dad, father daughter,

Premium Member I'M Dying To See You - Literally
Dad was loadin' rods and tackle, I was addin' fuel, as Mom hopped on with a picnic lunch that balmy afternoon.
Another Sunday outing on the...

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Categories: depression, loneliness, suicide,

Qmr2-40
When a Woman insists that she does all the work
and the man does nothing
what is this condition called.
My Great Grand dad said it
was called "silly...

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Categories: allusion, character, loneliness,



Premium Member The Loneliest Prayer
The loneliest prayer is often said
When evening shadows fall
Or when I sob and jump in bed
My shirt, my shoes, and all

I wonder why my closest...

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Categories: faith, loneliness, prayer,

Would He Weep
The smell of pipe smoke and engine oil
were occasional markers
of an occasional man.

A constant in it’s slightest form he runs
from those in last, and those...

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Categories: loneliness, absence, childhood, dad, divorce,

Premium Member Summer 1937
It was a hot summer
It was a lonely summer.
In many ways it was
Really a sad summer.
Mother with a new baby,
Dad without a job, 
First summer...

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Categories: childhood, emotions, feelings, loneliness,

Premium Member No Dad Should Leave His Family For a Mistress
No dad should leave his family for a mistress
and break the sacred marital vows and transgress;
who is selfish and has no love or pity
shall find...

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Categories: city, conflict, family, loneliness,

Premium Member On Assisted Suicide
Sitting alone in a hospital waiting room, watching the nurses rush by, 
I’d been perusing the old magazines, and doing my best not to cry...
When...

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Categories: loneliness, suicide,

Premium Member I Wish
I wish I were invited to say what's in my heart
Using vibrant colors of my imagination's palette
I'd paint a universe that’s bright and cheerful

I wish...

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Categories: children, grief, loneliness, lost

Premium Member On Being An Only Child
An only child, like I was, is
still looked upon askance?
As if I could force my Mom
and Dad to make more
babies, perchance?

Those poets here, who know
me...

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Categories: childhood, feelings, friend, loneliness,

Premium Member Robert Is a Lonesome Man a Love Life Abandoned-
Robert was a lonesome man;
Self-decaying waiting and wondering
Tragically he was a widow
Awaiting his love acquittal
True love he thought he shared with the heart
Of a woman...

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Categories: heartbroken, loneliness, longing,

Before It's Too Late
I've just been watching Professor Green about his dad's sad passing. For many years, his grief is held with pain thats ever lasting. 

I can...

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Categories: bereavement, cry, depression, loneliness,

Lost Little Sheep
I didn't know where else to go for some help for me,
This chapel has always been a refuge, so quiet and empty.

I came because I...

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Categories: loneliness, absence, confusion, emotions, feelings,


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