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.


Autumn Lingers

autumn lingers unfinished
though cold drops november 
rain and waits undiminished
'til native summer sun remembers
what could unmake
when days full ache
bloom autumn colors
quick winter all borders
golds greens
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Categories: memory, autumn, color, father son,


Dad's radio

I look back at my dad's radio
Shuffling through the channels
Cause the signal is too weak
But my dad will wait in awe

When the presenter starts off
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Categories: memory, beautiful, dad, family, love,

Premium Member MY FATHER'S GENTLE HANDS

MY FATHER'S GENTLE HANDS
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I remember my father’s hands as a plumber’s hands—fiercely strong, calloused, rough, knuckle-battered, and dirty after a long-day’s work. Those hands shoveled;
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Categories: memory, 12th grade, dad, father,

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,

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