30+ Father’s Day Poems for dad (Short, Funny & Heartfelt)

Do you want to try something different this Father’s Day to wish your dad? You can surprise him with his favorite meal and a poem. Expressing your emotions through poems can make the moment more special and memorable. 

We got a collection of more than 30 funny, thoughtful, and emotional poems to make Father’s Day extra special this year. Let’s find a poem that conveys your emotions beautifully. 

1. Short Poems Perfect for Father’s Day Cards

1. “Dad you know that I like Batman,

And Superman’s cool too,

But I don’t really need them,

As long as I have you!” —Meagan Tuffley

2. “Silent and Strong

He never looks for praises,

He’s never one to boast.

He just goes on quietly working,

For those he loves most.” —Karen K. Boyer

3. “I hope you know I’m grateful,

And my heart is truly glad,

That today and every single day,

I have you as my Dad.” —Holly Giffers

4. “I Know You Like Me Best

Daddy I know your secret,

That you’ve tried to keep suppressed,

I promise I won’t tell anyone,

But I know you like me best!” —Brann Rafferty

5. “One day I’ll be big like you, Dad,

Strong and brave, and rarely sad.

I’ll always look up to you with pride,

Dad, you’re my hero and my guide.” —Kip Alderidge

6. “My father, my friend,

This to me you have always been.

Through good times and bad,

Your understandings I have had.” —Peggy Stewart

2. Emotional Poems That Thank Dad for Everything

7. “Only a dad, with a tired face,

Coming home from the daily race,

Bringing little of gold or fame,

To show how well he has played the game,

But glad in his heart that his own rejoice

To see him come, and to hear his voice.”  ——Read full Poem by Edgar Guest

8. “Those afternoons, the Saturdays of my tender childhood

in Mexico City

were just lovely.

It was the time when fathers

were one on one with their sons,

and took them to see friends, have an ice,

talk in the park, or to intriguing stores

from their youth.” ——Read full poem by Jorge H.Aigla 

9. “Most truly honoured, and as truly dear, 

If worth in me or ought I do appear, 

Who can of right better demand the same 

Than may your worthy self. From whom it came?” —— Read full poem by Anne Bradstreet 

10. “When I was a newborn, I didn’t let

my father hold me. I cried in his presence

till my mother came. My father would shrug, 

lean into his high backed chair, to read the paper,

to smoke his pipe while he heard his wife

sing to his only daughter.” —— Read full poem by Tina Chang 

11. “To pull the metal splinter from my palm

my father recited a story in a low voice.

I watched his lovely face and not the blade.

Before the story ended, he’d removed

the iron sliver I thought I’d die from.”—— Read full poem by Li-Young Lee 

12. Father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout

with you, the glory of great black men swinging their lives

as bats, at tiny white balls

burning in at unbelievable speeds, riding up & in & out

a curve breaking down wicked”——Read full poem by Quincy T. Trouppe

3. Funny Poems for Dads Who Love to Laugh

13. “There once was a dad with a quip,

Whose jokes made his kids want to flip.

‘Is that a dad joke?’

We’d sigh, as we’d choke,

But somehow they’d always equip.”

14. “The shelf that he built tilts a bit to the side,

The wardrobe he made is a wobbly-eyed bride.

But we love him the most, this is not up for question,

He’s the king of all tools—with zero direction!”

15. “Dad’s texting skills aren’t up to scratch,

He replied to the vicar with ‘Let’s have a rematch!’

But we all forgave him, though we had a good giggle,

Because his next text said, ‘Oops, must be my middle!”

16. “For Dad and his biscuits, there’s no competition,

They disappear quick—it’s a real magician’s mission.

Don’t dare touch his stash, you’ll surely regret,

Those hobnobs are his, and he won’t soon forget!”

17. “There once was a scientist mad

Who kept clones of himself as a lad;

He arranged them on shelves

And taught all of his selves

To shout loudly (in unison) ‘Dad!’”

18. “Dads like you are hard to find,

Always funny, smart, and a grilling mastermind.

Daddy, you are truly one-of-a-kind!”

4. Poems About Life Lessons Fathers Teach

19. “That whole tiresome pitch

about basics never changing,

and I never learned what you were laying down.

Like a hand brushed across the bill of a cap,

let this be the sign

I’m getting a grip on the sacrifice.” ——Read full poem by David Bottoms 

20. “Aba says in a blizzard, fill the bathtub.

With firewood. Aba says a leaky roof is a blessing. 

Provided the bucket. 

To melt snow. With fire. We gather.

All the trees in Queens. Shake

& shiver. My axe cannot approximate.”——Read full poem by Rosebud Ben-oni

21. “Certain words give him trouble: cannibals, puzzles, sob,

bosom, martyr, deteriorate, shake, astonishes, vexed, ode    ...    

These he looks up and studiously annotates in Vietnamese.

Ravish means cướp đoạt; shits is like when you have to đi ỉa;

mourners are those whom we say are full of buồn rầu.

For “even the like precurse of feared events” think báo trước.”——Read full poem by Hai Dang-Phan 

22. “My father knows the proper way 

The nation should be run; 

He tells us children every day 

Just what should now be done. 

He knows the way to fix the trusts, 

He has a simple plan; 

But if the furnace needs repairs, 

 We have to hire a man.” —— Read full poem by Edgar Guest 

23. “A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip—

There is a glorious fellowship!

Father and son and the open sky

And the white clouds lazily drifting by,

And the laughing stream as it runs along

With the clicking reel like a martial song,

And the father teaching the youngster gay

How to land a fish in the sportsman's way.” ——Read full poem by Edgar Guest 

24. “Between my finger and my thumb   

The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound   

When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:   

My father, digging. I look down” ——Read full poem by Seamus Heanay

5. Poems That Celebrate a Father’s Quiet Love

25. “My father moved through dooms of love

Through sames of am through haves of give,

Singing each morning out of each night

My father moved through depths of height”—— Read full poem by E.E.Cummings 

26. “Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.” ——Read full poem by Robert Hayden 

27. “A man crosses the street in rain,

stepping gently, looking two times north and south,

because his son is asleep on his shoulder.

No car must splash him.

No car drive too near to his shadow.”——Read full poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

28. “My father at the dictionary-stand   

Touches the page to fully understand   

The lamplit answer, tilting in his hand

His slowly scanning magnifying lens,   

A blurry, glistening circle he suspends

Above the word “Carnation.” Then he bends” —— Read full poem by Gjertrud Schnackenberg

29. “As you plaited the harvest bow

You implicated the mellowed silence in you

In wheat that does not rust

But brightens as it tightens twist by twist

Into a knowable corona,

A throwaway love-knot of straw.” —— Read full poem by Seamus Heaney 

30. “He never looks for praises.

He's never one to boast.

He just goes on quietly working

For those he loves the most.” ——Read full poem by Karen

31. “When I scratched my knee,

Or if I bumped my head,

When I was afraid of the dark,

Or that thing under my bed,

When I cried in the night,

Or even in the day,

You were there for me

To make it all okay.”——Read full poem by Jennifer S. Williams. 

Conclusion

If you love your father and are looking for a way to express it, Father’s Day is the perfect occasion to do so. Direct words might feel awkward. Rather, you can rely on poems to thank your father for their selfless love. Furthermore, you can create a customized magazine, filled with your precious moments, with Zawa AI.