Poems about Father
#father
Poetry about father, depicting the wisdom and memories of a father, and what it means to be a good father. Poems exploring both positive and negative relationships between children and their fathers.
nightbirdblue
Poem Published
29th Jul 2021 10:57am
29th Jul 2021 10:57am
To Burn [Dad]
You had 30 years
To show me love
30 years to be
My father
Instead
You let
Your career shield you
From your responsibilities
To your family
You were always a ghost
Always working, never home
Hiding all of your emotions
As if you were an empty host
So imagine my surprise
How impacting it was when
You used corporal punishment
As a means of discipline
And imagine my surprise
As a teen, dying inside
Full of repressed secrets
When you shook me by the arms
I...
To show me love
30 years to be
My father
Instead
You let
Your career shield you
From your responsibilities
To your family
You were always a ghost
Always working, never home
Hiding all of your emotions
As if you were an empty host
So imagine my surprise
How impacting it was when
You used corporal punishment
As a means of discipline
And imagine my surprise
As a teen, dying inside
Full of repressed secrets
When you shook me by the arms
I...
#anger
#grief
#rejection
#father
#family
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2 Comments
cloventongue89
Poem Published
25th Jul 2021 11:18pm
25th Jul 2021 11:18pm
Renovating Broken Homes
Torn to be re-knit into the tapestry of a common fabric
I see eye to eye with you, where pain became a conduit to compassion
When love despite our imperfections is loving someone else as ourselves
For all the better attributes of sons and fathers
Let grace remake us where fallibility seeks for a Savior
To bridge the gap in the conversation of our lives
Filling the silence and the void of distances with healing
To mend us back together into a day born out of our darkest nights
For all the times I took for granted having you in my life
A...
I see eye to eye with you, where pain became a conduit to compassion
When love despite our imperfections is loving someone else as ourselves
For all the better attributes of sons and fathers
Let grace remake us where fallibility seeks for a Savior
To bridge the gap in the conversation of our lives
Filling the silence and the void of distances with healing
To mend us back together into a day born out of our darkest nights
For all the times I took for granted having you in my life
A...
#love
#father
#family
#FathersDay
#fatherhood
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2 Comments
cloventongue89
Poem Published
25th Jul 2021 8:09am
25th Jul 2021 8:09am
Trial By Love
Life brought you to this place
Where sons pose the question in mere existence
What caliber of man will you strive to be?
All the know how to survive and the wisdom of persistence
Passed down from struggle to redemption's legacy
The infants cry confides in you to lead
It's not a question of the scars that make us up
But for what purpose do we bleed?
Soul ties made manifest in bloodlines
No truer the bond than the byproduct of lifetimes
Imparting the lessons you've learned
Working back to square one and seeking to achieve
What you do...
Where sons pose the question in mere existence
What caliber of man will you strive to be?
All the know how to survive and the wisdom of persistence
Passed down from struggle to redemption's legacy
The infants cry confides in you to lead
It's not a question of the scars that make us up
But for what purpose do we bleed?
Soul ties made manifest in bloodlines
No truer the bond than the byproduct of lifetimes
Imparting the lessons you've learned
Working back to square one and seeking to achieve
What you do...
#father
#brother
#family
#FathersDay
#fatherhood
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
25th Jul 2021 8:03am
25th Jul 2021 8:03am
Sergeant's Compassion
What's to be said to the father of many?
Whether by blood, contract, or adoption's embrace
The love speaks the same in the wisdom and guidance
When to be a father is to be an example of God's grace
Too few the words to express the compassion
To do justice the way your heart is seen in action
Behind the playful hazing and illegible expression
I can see your care as upon me you've made an impression
When by law is as good or at times truer than DNA
You were there when my own felt as if to walk away
For that I am eternally grateful to...
Whether by blood, contract, or adoption's embrace
The love speaks the same in the wisdom and guidance
When to be a father is to be an example of God's grace
Too few the words to express the compassion
To do justice the way your heart is seen in action
Behind the playful hazing and illegible expression
I can see your care as upon me you've made an impression
When by law is as good or at times truer than DNA
You were there when my own felt as if to walk away
For that I am eternally grateful to...
#love
#father
#family
#spiritual
#fatherhood
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2 Comments
TimWombles
Poem Published
24th Jul 2021 3:23am
24th Jul 2021 3:23am
Morning Cup with Dad
The last couple years my Father could no longer drive
But I think he needed out in the mornings just to feel alive
His sight had left him, he could no longer hear
And I think he used the threat of driving just to keep me near
He would tell me tales of adventure while holding his coffee cup
And yeah I knew he stretched the truth a bit and a few tales he made up
He would tell me about the struggles of his life
Talk about his successes and tell me about his strife
Every day Pop would drag me from my bed
Still clearing the cobwebs from my...
But I think he needed out in the mornings just to feel alive
His sight had left him, he could no longer hear
And I think he used the threat of driving just to keep me near
He would tell me tales of adventure while holding his coffee cup
And yeah I knew he stretched the truth a bit and a few tales he made up
He would tell me about the struggles of his life
Talk about his successes and tell me about his strife
Every day Pop would drag me from my bed
Still clearing the cobwebs from my...
#father
#memorial
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6 Comments
Taurek
Poem Published
19th Jul 2021 1:19am
19th Jul 2021 1:19am
Cancel Vultures
Daddy issues tatted on the skin
I look down and grin
A finicky proposition
dopamine spikes and
the summer’s supposition
do you really want to
drill down on this?
haven’t you caused
enough pain,
already?
when you find something, it’s
yours and yours alone
do not share it with anyone because
they will not understand
it’s between you and I
and nothing else mattered
it isn’t going to help
nothing ever helped
you’re going to...
I look down and grin
A finicky proposition
dopamine spikes and
the summer’s supposition
do you really want to
drill down on this?
haven’t you caused
enough pain,
already?
when you find something, it’s
yours and yours alone
do not share it with anyone because
they will not understand
it’s between you and I
and nothing else mattered
it isn’t going to help
nothing ever helped
you’re going to...
#regret
#father
#sex
#faith
#fate
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4 Comments
cloventongue89
Poem Published
6th Jul 2021 9:22pm
6th Jul 2021 9:22pm
Domestic War Stories 2
Speechless in the face of a conflict of interest confidant
As I shoot a wounded man with symptoms in his hands
And contrast the weight of the scale
What’s the difference between us
But that I know when I fail
Yet never would I breach the boundaries
Or have I spoken too far when I utter a reminisce
As I speak of your heart and an unwanted kiss
To put it mildly on behalf of those that use love
Like a method to manipulate
And catch you in the orbit of themselves
Oh label gun society, everyone is bearing arms in their...
As I shoot a wounded man with symptoms in his hands
And contrast the weight of the scale
What’s the difference between us
But that I know when I fail
Yet never would I breach the boundaries
Or have I spoken too far when I utter a reminisce
As I speak of your heart and an unwanted kiss
To put it mildly on behalf of those that use love
Like a method to manipulate
And catch you in the orbit of themselves
Oh label gun society, everyone is bearing arms in their...
#love
#lust
#father
#addiction
#morality
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APissPoorShaman
Poem Published
4th Jul 2021 11:28pm
4th Jul 2021 11:28pm
Craftsman
With infinite care and patience
a craftsman bends over his labor
using tools of love and compassion
the work becomes his meaning
and the meaning becomes his life
with toil and sweat and time
building a foundation for the soul
of strength and respect and courage
the raw materials of creation
he labors night and day unceasing
constructing welcoming doorways
bright windows for the spirit
and walls to weather the storm
the work is never really finished
something always needs repair
but trusting to his craftsmanship ...
a craftsman bends over his labor
using tools of love and compassion
the work becomes his meaning
and the meaning becomes his life
with toil and sweat and time
building a foundation for the soul
of strength and respect and courage
the raw materials of creation
he labors night and day unceasing
constructing welcoming doorways
bright windows for the spirit
and walls to weather the storm
the work is never really finished
something always needs repair
but trusting to his craftsmanship ...
#father
#uplifting
#son #wisdom
#son #wisdom
26 reads
2 Comments
nightbirdblue
Poem Published
3rd Jul 2021 9:57am
3rd Jul 2021 9:57am
Surrogate
If my own father
were a fraction as impassioned
as you
perhaps this situation
I would never have pursued
If my own father
ever took a break
from his job
to lend advice or empathy
If my own father
faced adversity
with half the wit as you…
If my own father
would have held me close
how many opportunities
I may not have lost
If my own father
wasn’t such a ghost…
perhaps I wouldn’t
be another man’s host
Weak as I am
I understand
his own childhood
might...
were a fraction as impassioned
as you
perhaps this situation
I would never have pursued
If my own father
ever took a break
from his job
to lend advice or empathy
If my own father
faced adversity
with half the wit as you…
If my own father
would have held me close
how many opportunities
I may not have lost
If my own father
wasn’t such a ghost…
perhaps I wouldn’t
be another man’s host
Weak as I am
I understand
his own childhood
might...
#father
#confessional
#despair
#emptiness
#FeelingTrapped
31 reads
4 Comments
jenny_is_hungry
Poem Published
3rd Jul 2021 2:37am
3rd Jul 2021 2:37am
What You Taught Me
I don't deserve your help
I'm not speaking through pride
Honestly
I owe you my fuckin life
So I can't ask anything
Not even a small request
Because I already owe so much
Yet you still see me at my best
Please stop trying to connect
I'm lost and still trying to prove
That I carry our family name
Because what I've learned from you
So live your life and keep on building your legacy
Secure what you have gifted
Taught me
I hope to shadow you
But in much respect
You made more than your father ...
I'm not speaking through pride
Honestly
I owe you my fuckin life
So I can't ask anything
Not even a small request
Because I already owe so much
Yet you still see me at my best
Please stop trying to connect
I'm lost and still trying to prove
That I carry our family name
Because what I've learned from you
So live your life and keep on building your legacy
Secure what you have gifted
Taught me
I hope to shadow you
But in much respect
You made more than your father ...
#father
#family
#learning
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4 Comments
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
2nd Jul 2021 9:56am
2nd Jul 2021 9:56am
His legacy in newfound wisdom
I remembered today,
about your fingers and toes
and how my own
are so very similar
how my laugh is too loud
and spirited by half
of what made you, you
a spark of inherited harsh
copied of a much too harsh
unintentional in it's abruptness
this, my momentary unforgiving
in split seconds, yet enough to scar
lately, stopped in thought
I've learned to realize
sooner, rather than later
to catch that proclivity
hug it long and hard
and kiss it's cheek...
about your fingers and toes
and how my own
are so very similar
how my laugh is too loud
and spirited by half
of what made you, you
a spark of inherited harsh
copied of a much too harsh
unintentional in it's abruptness
this, my momentary unforgiving
in split seconds, yet enough to scar
lately, stopped in thought
I've learned to realize
sooner, rather than later
to catch that proclivity
hug it long and hard
and kiss it's cheek...
#father
#memories
#IMissYou
#daughter
#NoPoo
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31 Comments
Ruth_Solace-Hopper
Poem Published
30th Jun 2021 1:20am
30th Jun 2021 1:20am
In your breeding days,
Your deficiencies attracted the bloodline,
the giant, the dark-side,
the strongman,
Fruits of perversion,
anger, bitterness, jealousy,
your own
personal madman.
Breeding a dysfunctional circus,
the Jezebel-branded crew,
called python-dependents.
We compete!!!
We control!!!
Camouflaged,
masked,
as the perfect family,
while the black-sheep,
silently, sustains
her shattered soul. ...
the giant, the dark-side,
the strongman,
Fruits of perversion,
anger, bitterness, jealousy,
your own
personal madman.
Breeding a dysfunctional circus,
the Jezebel-branded crew,
called python-dependents.
We compete!!!
We control!!!
Camouflaged,
masked,
as the perfect family,
while the black-sheep,
silently, sustains
her shattered soul. ...
#mother
#father
#brother #sister
#brother #sister
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