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Dad Memory Poems

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


Premium Member Dad

Even though fathers might all seem similar in some ways
They are actually all different as are cats and bears
Or even pirates and trees regardless of...

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© John Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: memory, change, dad, family, feelings,



Premium Member GRANDPAS PATH
Our cabin in North Carolina was built by Deborah’s mom and dad in 1983…
It rests on the side of a mountain…nestled in among the trees.

When...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather, memory,

Premium Member Peter Periwinkle
“Peter Periwinkle had a car accident,”
my brother said,
as if reading it aloud 
from the back
of a cereal box.
It took me three full seconds
to realize
he meant...

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Categories: memory, 1st grade, brother, dad,

Premium Member Legerdemain
The magician wore 
my mother’s perfume
and conjured family 
from thin air—
a brother renamed uncle,
a wife recast as mother,
a daughter vanishing 
behind a tale of bees.

Each...

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Categories: memory, confusion, family, growing up,

Happy Father's Day
To the man who stood so tall,
Who picked me up with every fall.
In life’s loud storm or silent pain,
You stood like shelter in the rain.

When...

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Categories: memory, 11th grade, family, father,



Premium Member Memory Revisiting
black cherry dusk skies
and moon rose, it was silver
butterfly quivers

the gemmed stars were out
and Mom tending blooms, singing
clematis clinging

jade dragonfly lake
comes again in memory
with anemones

Dad...

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Categories: beauty, family, flower, memory,

Premium Member Chiaroscuro
It was a ghostly orb
obscured by smog—
glowing faintly yellow
at the center and fading
to amber, 
then ochre, 
raw sienna, 
and finally umber—
as if the light itself
were...

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Categories: childhood, dark, light, memory,

Mom And Dad Memories Last
Missing my Parents
Both are gone
Jesus is with me
I am never alone.

Rest my dear Parents
You've done your best
Remembrance in memories
Centuries, Decades, through Destiny
All the rest.

...

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Categories: destiny, fathers day, memory,

Premium Member A CABIN FILLED WITH MEMORIES
I know I say this every time we visit our cabin in NC…
how wonderful it is to visit a place with so much family history.

And...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: memory,

Premium Member He Grew Old

When he was young. I thought he was old. It never occurred to me that I might be wrong. That old wouldn’t show up for...

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Categories: memory, appreciation, father, father daughter,

MY TRIBUTE TO DAD
MY TRIBUTE TO DAD
      The Last 10 years
            
Looking...

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Categories: memory, appreciation, dad, goodbye, i

Premium Member A Shrunken Head and Other Mysteries
In the book nook I found it—
a face no bigger than my palm,
leathered and silent,
its eyes forever pressed shut
against whatever it had seen.
Grandma said a...

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Categories: childhood, grandmother, image, memory,

Premium Member In Memory
my father is no longer here
but I still have memories 
like the letters from his high school buddies
in the armed forces
at the tail end of...

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Categories: memory, father, memorial day,

Premium Member I have One Memory of my father



I have one memory of my father
Who was not my dad
There was a father,
he left.
There was no dad.
There were men who tried to be.
There were...

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Categories: memory, abuse, childhood, divorce, father,

Premium Member Flames
excited dad and son
jazzed for vacation fun
drive up the winding road 
see nature's grace bestowed 
finding dreams and desire
burned by forest fire...

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Categories: father son, fire, memory,


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