Father Poems

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Tours
by Carolyn D. Wright

A girl on the stairs listens to her father
Beat up her mother.
Doors bang.
She comes down in her nightgown.

The piano stands there in the dark
Like a boy with an orchid.

She plays what she can
Then she turns the lamp on.

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The Ballad Of Father Gilligan
by William Butler Yeats

The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day
For half his flock were in their beds
Or under green sods lay.

Once, while he nodded in a chair
At the moth-hour of the eve
Another poor man sent for him,
And he began to grieve.


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Drapple-Thorned Aphrodite,
by Sappho

Dapple-throned Aphrodite,
eternal daughterf God,
snare-knitter! Don't, I beg you,

cow my heart with grief! Come,
as once when you heard my far-
off cry and, listening, stepped

from your father's house to your
gold car, to yoke the pair whose

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The Old Man Dreams
by Oliver Wendell Holmes

OH for one hour of youthful joy!
Give back my twentieth spring!
I'd rather laugh, a bright-haired boy,
Than reign, a gray-beard king.

Off with the spoils of wrinkled age!
Away with Learning's crown!
Tear out life's Wisdom-written page,
And dash its trophies down!


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The City In Which I Loved You
by Li-Young Lee

And when, in the city in which I love you,
even my most excellent song goes unanswered,
andI mount the scabbed streets,
the long shouts of avenues,
and tunnel sunken night in search of you...

That I negotiate fog, bituminous
rain rining like teeth into the beggar's tin,
or two men jackaling a third in some alley
weirdly lit by a couch on fire, that I

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Recent Father Poems
I know you still care for me
by Aldo Kraas

I know you still care for me
Father
Also father I have no enemies in my life
And I hope to keep that way
I never built any fence around me
There is no need for that
Because I only have friends
And no enemies
I don't need enemies in my life
When a door closes

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Before The Beginning Began
by Christen Kuikoua

Before the dawn of time’s first breath,
Before the light of morning’s crest,
There was a Presence, pure and grand,
Who shaped the stars with His own hand.

He did not begin where beginnings unfold,
Nor fit within the bounds of old,
For He, the Prime Mover, the Uncaused Cause,
Initiated all with divine laws.


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A Father’s Day Tribute: To A Father Like My Own
by Christen Kuikoua

Few words I pen, for today is your day,
A celebration of you, in every way.
Thrilled and happy, my heart does sing,
For your life has been a blessing in everything.

A father you are, steadfast and true,
A husband so loving, through and through.
A godly man, with wisdom to share,
A parent so devoted, beyond compare.


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Apparent
by Brady Stewart

I was there when they found him
Alive, barely inching across the concrete
he needed to go
Yes
He needed to go.
He needed a fact functioning friend
To dismiss, allieve,
Align with the lust for damnation.
To damn your dearest creation
However

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Father
by mika bandy

Today my father walked away from me
I was 8 years old again
and all I could do was cry
as i grieved the love i never had
and yearned for the care he never gave me

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  •  Homer
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    Disputed - c 850 B.C.E. / Disputed
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    Saadi Shirazi (31 poems about Father)
    Sa'di] (1814-1291 / Iran
  • James Macpherson
    James Macpherson (26 poems about Father)
    27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796 / Ruthven, Kingussie, Badenoch, Inverness-Shire, Scotland
  •  Li-Young Lee
    Li-Young Lee (16 poems about Father)
  • Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg (11 poems about Father)
    June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997 / Newark, New Jersey
  •  Ovid
    Ovid (11 poems about Father)
    43 BCE - 17 CE / Rome / Italy
  • John Bunyan
    John Bunyan (10 poems about Father)
    28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688 / Elstow, Bedfordshire, England.
  • Russell Edson
    Russell Edson (9 poems about Father)
    1935 - 2014 / Connecticut, United States
  • Anne Bradstreet
    Anne Bradstreet (8 poems about Father)
    1612 – 16 September 1672 / Northampton, England
  • David Lehman
    David Lehman (8 poems about Father)
    June 11, 1948 / New York City
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