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Many fathers are just not comfortable with sentimentality! Therefore “Father's Day Funny Poems” are an excellent method of letting that special man know just how much you love him on Father's Day. Here is a selection of two humorous Fathers Day poems.

Not every poem has to rhyme. Think of most any Haiku…

Not every poem needs to be laid out in semi-equal lines and sentences.

Not every poem needs to have a consistent meter.

Not every poem needs to follow a particular pattern.

Yes, poems should have some sort of theme.

Yes, poems should provide some sort of imagery.

Yes, poems should make you feel something.

Poetry, like music, paintings, sculpture or any work of art, is highly subjective. It is okay to like or dislike any work of art, but to label it as good, bad, right or wrong, strongly suggests that you don't know what you are talking about.

There is also another, less familiar, way of establishing rhythm in English poetry: counting accents rather than both accents and syllables. Some people may perceive accentual poetry as irregular, and confuse it with free verse. However, unlike free verse, accentual poetry has rules. It has a fixed number of accented (stressed) syllables per line, but the count of unstressed syllables may vary. For example, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel is accentual poetry: every line has four stressed syllables:

Is the night chilly and dark?
The night is chilly, but not dark.
The thin gray cloud is spread on high …

As you can see, there are four stressed syllables in every line, but the count and position of unstressed syllables vary.

Old English (Anglo-Saxon) poetry (e.g., Beowulf) was accentual rather than accentual-syllabic. More modern poets, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy, have also written accentual poetry. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, by J.R.R. Tolkien, is accentual poetry written in modern English, but imitating an Old Norse style