8 Inspiring Father’s Day Poems to Honor Your Dad

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Father's Day poems are a good way to show your dad you care.

Father's Day is still a little ways off, June 19, 2016, but it never hurts to be prepared . To help with that, we here at InvesorPlace have collected eight Father's Day poems to help you show him how much you care. These poems are great to share with your Dad on Facebook Inc ( FB ) and other social media websites, and would also do well transcribed to a card.

See if any of these Father's Day poems fit your needs this year.

Father's Day Poems

F.A.T.H.E.R.S.

"F" aithful.

"A" lways there.

"T" rustworthy.

"H" onoring.

"E" ver-loving.

"R" ighteous.

"S" upportive.

-Author Unknown

Father's Day Poems

What Makes a Dad

God took the strength of a mountain,

The majesty of a tree,

The warmth of a summer sun,

The calm of a quiet sea,

The generous soul of nature,

The comforting arm of night,

The wisdom of the ages,

The power of the eagle's flight,

The joy of a morning in spring,

The faith of a mustard seed,

The patience of eternity,

The depth of a family need,

Then God combined these qualities,

When there was nothing more to add,

He knew His masterpiece was complete,

And so, He called it … Dad

- Author Unknown

Father's Day Poems

A Dad is a Person

A Dad is a person

who is loving and kind,

And often he knows

what you have on your mind.

He's someone who listens,

suggests, and defends.

A dad can be one

of your very best friends!

He's proud of your triumphs,

but when things go wrong,

A dad can be patient

and helpful and strong

In all that you do,

a dad's love plays a part.

There's always a place for him

deep in your heart.

And each year that passes,

you're even more glad,

More grateful and proud

just to call him your dad!

Thank you, Dad…

for listening and caring,

for giving and sharing,

but, especially, for just being you!

Happy Father's Day

- Author Unknown

Father's Day Poems

A Father and a Dad Are Not the Same

A father and a dad are not the same:

One can be a dad and not a father,

Or one can be a father and not bother

To earn through love the more endearing name.

Some find fatherhood a bit too tame,

Leaving all the details to the mother,

Or dumping the sweet burden on another

Man with just a passing twinge of shame.

You have been our dad so many years

That you've become the landscape that is home,

The mountain that we look to from afar.

No matter where we go we're not alone,

For you remain within to still our fears

And be the word that tells us who we are.

- Dimitri Shostakovich

Father's Day Poems

Children Need a Daddy

Children need a Daddy

For many, many things:

Like holding them high off the ground

Where the sunlight sings!

Like being the deep music

That tells them all is right

When they awaken frantic with

The terrors of the night.

Like being the great mountain

That rises in their hearts

And shows them how they might get home

When all else falls apart.

Like giving them the love

That is their sea and air,

So diving deep or soaring high

They'll always find him there.

- Oliver Matla

Father's Day Poems

Even Though We've Lived Apart

Even though we've lived apart,

I do not love you less.

There's provision in the heart

For storing tenderness.

There's a love that like a star

Must reconfigure space

To turn the far-flung wanderers

Towards some predestined grace.

Time matters not, nor pain, nor death,

Nor fate as hard as stone.

This truth needs but a single breath,

And that we now have known.

Ah, Father! What a joy to live

With love at last expressed!

Life has no greater gift to give

Than that with which we're blessed.

- Barry Taylor

Father's Day Poems

Fathers Can Be Solitary Mountains

Fathers can be solitary mountains,

All their love rock-like, steep, and strong.

Though warm and caring, somehow they belong

Halfway home to mothers' bubbling fountains.

Each of us needs love that knows no quarter,

Reminding us of bonds that cross a border,

Strengthening our sense of right and wrong.

- Richard Allwood

Father's Day Poems

Before I Was Myself, You Made Me, Me

Before I was myself you made me, me

With love and patience, discipline and tears,

Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,

Allowing me to sail upon my sea,

Though well within the headlands of your fears.

Before I was myself you made me, me

With dreams enough of what I was to be

And hopes that would be sculpted by the years,

Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,

Relinquishing your powers gradually

To let me shape myself among my peers.

Before I was myself you made me, me,

And being good and wise, you gracefully

As dancers when the last sweet cadence nears

Bit by bit stepped back to set me free.

For love inspires learning naturally:

The mind assents to what the heart reveres.

And so it was through love you made me, me

By slowly stepping back to set me free.

- Dimitri Shostakovich

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