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 GodlinessEvery 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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loss, bereavement, children, grandparents, poverty,
Mendin FencesI 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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child, father, longing, loss,
My Father's Field and StreamI 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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father son, introspection, loss,
Gloomy international watersLet 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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loss, addiction, depression, father son,
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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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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loss, anxiety, confusion, dream, emotions,
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 goneNot 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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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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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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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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grief, loss, mother, mother
My Calling at an Intersection along IA 136A 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 worldsTake 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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loss, angel, bereavement, dad, death,
FORGIVEForgive 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,