Poems for and About Fathers Seeking Friendly Advice
#father
Poems for and about fathers seeking friendly advice. Friendly advice and comments have been requested for these poems.
moony_
Poem Published
10th May 2024 4:35am
10th May 2024 4:35am
Center Of Your Universe
I just want to be cared for
and not just by anyone
but by you
and you don't get that
because while you are staring into the sun
I am wondering how to become it
and not just by anyone
but by you
and you don't get that
because while you are staring into the sun
I am wondering how to become it
#father
78 reads
8 Comments
moony_
Poem Published
8th May 2024 5:54am
8th May 2024 5:54am
Go Stuff Your Head In Some Sand
So many fuck you’s
And somehow
All of them are for you
And somehow
All of them are for you
#father
51 reads
7 Comments
Maple666
Poem Published
2nd May 2024 6:07pm
2nd May 2024 6:07pm
Shovelling Snow.
You will never truly understand her. She is a somebody but to her she has been six feet under it’s almost living in reverse .It all began this feeling when she was five and she remembers the first time she saw another human being physically hurt by another. Namely her mother and the thing is this sort of living spreads like a virus and it infiltrates and annihilates all the wonder and destroys joy until you don’t think you can take much more but you do.
As life is a gift she isn’t a total degenerate and you have to unwrap it and take it in your own hands and find an alternative...
As life is a gift she isn’t a total degenerate and you have to unwrap it and take it in your own hands and find an alternative...
#childhood
#family
#father
#fear
#mother
40 reads
0 Comments
moony_
Poem Published
1st May 2024 6:35pm
1st May 2024 6:35pm
I Want A Home
I want to change my last name
Change it to my mothers
I want to earn my own income
Pay my own taxes
Pay for my education
Live on my own
So why don’t you?
I’m scared
What if he’s right?
What if I can’t do it on my own?
Change it to my mothers
I want to earn my own income
Pay my own taxes
Pay for my education
Live on my own
So why don’t you?
I’m scared
What if he’s right?
What if I can’t do it on my own?
#dreams
#father
43 reads
4 Comments
moony_
Poem Published
1st May 2024 5:37am
1st May 2024 5:37am
I Don’t Have The Fight For You
you have broken me so many times
and you still expect me
to pick myself up
and glue the pieces together
i am a child.
i am your child.
YOU CHOSE TO HAVE ME
WHY DO YOU STILL TREAT ME
LIKE A FUCKING MIRROR
I am not replaceable.
and you still expect me
to pick myself up
and glue the pieces together
i am a child.
i am your child.
YOU CHOSE TO HAVE ME
WHY DO YOU STILL TREAT ME
LIKE A FUCKING MIRROR
I am not replaceable.
#anger
#father
74 reads
7 Comments
moony_
Poem Published
1st May 2024 5:07am
1st May 2024 5:07am
Treating Me Wrong
I do not trust you
I never did
And every time I think you are changing
You act the same
I will never trust you.
I never did
And every time I think you are changing
You act the same
I will never trust you.
#anger
#father
62 reads
4 Comments
msbeav
Brenda
Brenda
Poem Published
24th Apr 2024 3:19pm
24th Apr 2024 3:19pm
Love Will Never Die
On the night my mom passed I had a dream. In my dream was this beautiful angel with large pink wings. The angel smiled and said to me, " dry your eyes child, your mom is tired and ready to go home." NO , I screamed, this is her home!
The angel replied - follow me, there's something I want you to see.
She pointed to the left and there stood my mom in a field of wildflowers. She looked so beautiful with long dark auburn hair and not a wrinkle did I see. My mom was smiling and talking with my grandma and grandpa, aunts and uncles and my brother Joe too.
The...
The angel replied - follow me, there's something I want you to see.
She pointed to the left and there stood my mom in a field of wildflowers. She looked so beautiful with long dark auburn hair and not a wrinkle did I see. My mom was smiling and talking with my grandma and grandpa, aunts and uncles and my brother Joe too.
The...
#brother
#father
#mother
#separation
#sister
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0 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
8th Apr 2024 00:23am
8th Apr 2024 00:23am
Maybe you had to die for me to live
Sometimes I worry
that I don’t really miss you as I should.
My daily life was never good
at making space and time for you
(perhaps an unintended legacy
of the independence you encouraged?)
Now that you’re gone from this space and time
the guilt of that failure
has mostly gone with you.
No “when will I see you next?”
or long conversations
at inconvenient times
(oh, how selfish that sounds!)
And though I say I feel grief
what’s often stronger is relief
that I don’t need to filter ...
that I don’t really miss you as I should.
My daily life was never good
at making space and time for you
(perhaps an unintended legacy
of the independence you encouraged?)
Now that you’re gone from this space and time
the guilt of that failure
has mostly gone with you.
No “when will I see you next?”
or long conversations
at inconvenient times
(oh, how selfish that sounds!)
And though I say I feel grief
what’s often stronger is relief
that I don’t need to filter ...
#mother
#father
#identity
#confessional
#NaPoWriMo2024
112 reads
12 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
22nd Mar 2024 2:34pm
22nd Mar 2024 2:34pm
Sunk Deep in Baton Rouge
Sunk Deep in Baton Rouge
“Hello Pops. Sorry to intrude on my wonderfully studious young man in the middle of deep tort contemplations, but I have a little problem. Our house has flooded. So here I am with no adult assistance with our three-year-old son and the water, water is everywhere to borrow a phrase from Coleridge’s ‘Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.’ Could you get in that wonderful jalopy your Mom bought for us and take us to dry ground?”
“The car is flooded as well I am afraid. I am at the chapel on campus. Wait just a short while and I am sure the car will revive...
“Hello Pops. Sorry to intrude on my wonderfully studious young man in the middle of deep tort contemplations, but I have a little problem. Our house has flooded. So here I am with no adult assistance with our three-year-old son and the water, water is everywhere to borrow a phrase from Coleridge’s ‘Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.’ Could you get in that wonderful jalopy your Mom bought for us and take us to dry ground?”
“The car is flooded as well I am afraid. I am at the chapel on campus. Wait just a short while and I am sure the car will revive...
#loneliness
#mother
#father
#marriage
#son
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0 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
21st Mar 2024 2:52am
21st Mar 2024 2:52am
Sugar Festival Night
Sugar Festival Night
“Bob, why do you sit there reading news magazines all afternoon? Wouldn’t chatting with your beautiful wife be more interesting? You did marry me after all. And we are in Turkey. We speak the language. Let’s go out and mingle with the crowd.”
“Pat, I know being home while I am working at the base must get lonely. But I will make it up to you. Tonight we are going to the Sugar Festival.”
“I’ve heard about it from the general’s wife while gardening and being patient for your return as a proper wife should.”
“There will be dancers,...
“Bob, why do you sit there reading news magazines all afternoon? Wouldn’t chatting with your beautiful wife be more interesting? You did marry me after all. And we are in Turkey. We speak the language. Let’s go out and mingle with the crowd.”
“Pat, I know being home while I am working at the base must get lonely. But I will make it up to you. Tonight we are going to the Sugar Festival.”
“I’ve heard about it from the general’s wife while gardening and being patient for your return as a proper wife should.”
“There will be dancers,...
#loneliness
#mother
#father
#marriage
#TruthOfLife
46 reads
0 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
23rd Feb 2024 1:28pm
23rd Feb 2024 1:28pm
this is why...
the only time I ever came to blows was in 6th grade
the popular girl used to bully me...daily
I never said a word
just silently took it
until one day she mocked my father
and I nearly ripped the hair off her pretty blonde head
got sent to the principal's office for my trouble
...completely unrepentant
he tried to tell me "we don't beat people up"
I said "maybe not
but you don't stop other crap from happening either
never stopped her from bullying me"
when asked why I never spoke up...I shrugged
and he asked...
the popular girl used to bully me...daily
I never said a word
just silently took it
until one day she mocked my father
and I nearly ripped the hair off her pretty blonde head
got sent to the principal's office for my trouble
...completely unrepentant
he tried to tell me "we don't beat people up"
I said "maybe not
but you don't stop other crap from happening either
never stopped her from bullying me"
when asked why I never spoke up...I shrugged
and he asked...
#love
#father
#gratitude #daughter
#gratitude #daughter
131 reads
10 Comments
moony_
Poem Published
11th Feb 2024 2:45am
11th Feb 2024 2:45am
Margarita Mix
Stop making me feel like I’m walking on water
When I’m with you
I don’t want to drown
When I’m with you
I don’t want to drown
#father
#alcohol
94 reads
2 Comments
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