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Father Loss Poems

These Father Loss poems are examples of Loss poems about Father. These are the best examples of Loss Father poems written by international poets.


Neatness and Godliness
Every picture I’ve seen of you as a child,
You wear your hair in plaits.
A stern middle parting and two dark brown braids
Falling down on each...

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Categories: loss, bereavement, children, grandparents, poverty,



Premium Member Mendin Fences
I mend fence for a living,
but I ain’t fixed the one that matters.

The wire stretches out like a scar across this land,
and most days, my...

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Categories: child, father, longing, loss,

Premium Member My Father's Field and Stream
I woke up this morning from a dream. 
On the coffee table, I saw a magazine - 
my father's Field and Stream,

and I remembered how...

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Categories: father son, introspection, loss,

Gloomy international waters
Let sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve...

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Categories: loss, addiction, depression, father son,

Premium Member My Dad: The Navigational Beacon

It stands where the map dissolves,
at the edge where certainty falters—
a hollow bell against the wind,
a watchman staring through the salt-thick dark.

The mariner knows its...

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Categories: endurance, father, longing, loss,



I dreamt myself dreaming myself dreaming myself dreaming--
I       woke       up

on the mattress placed in our living room. I found a...

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Categories: loss, anxiety, confusion, dream, emotions,

Premium Member Gathering at the cemetery
It was a somber cloudy day, sadness weighed heavy on us all. The family gathered to pay final respects. Gregorian chant filled the air as...

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Categories: death, goodbye, grief, loss,

Everything is gone
Not sure how to carry on
Everything I love is now gone
Did not see the end in sight
Took you like a thief in the night
I know...

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Categories: loneliness, loss, lost love,

Why Your Cities Burn, Part VI
...Have you ever seen true madness
take full possession of a man?
Gobayth’s dreams of coming home
were now all well and truly damned.
It’s said he screamed for...

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Categories: loss, anger, conflict, dark, evil,

Why Your Cities Burn, Part III
...Gobayth’s mind was nearly crushed,
this was his life now, it appeared,
and all sorts of depressing thoughts
flooded his mind that first half-year.
Was this what life was...

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Categories: loss, anger, conflict, dark, evil,

Grieving Mother

The small shoes sit by the door,
dust motes dancing where tiny feet once shuffled,
eager for cartoons, for scraped knees, for my hand.

Her drawings still cling...

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Categories: grief, loss, mother, mother

My Calling at an Intersection along IA 136
A soft breeze whispered
as I stood near a spread
of fields
where my heartfelt story was told.

I recalled the beginning.
The middle was unfolding
and I didn’t know the...

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Categories: allegory, june, loss, remember,

In-between worlds
Take me down the cobbled path
Where moss and grasses grow
Sink my heels in dampened sand
Where oceans ebb and flow

Let the breeze sweep through my lips...

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Categories: loss, angel, bereavement, dad, death,

FORGIVE
Forgive the day, the sun did not shine, for we needed the cloud to bring the rain. 
Forgive the mother and father, that was not...

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Categories: america, loss, love, love

Hey Dad!
Hey Dad!

Hey Dad! Is that you knocking at the door outside?
I'm excited to let you know how great was my first horse ride.
Mom was waiting...

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Categories: loss, childhood, family, father son,


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