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grandmother
poem by
James Marshall Goff | Go to this short poem
Yellow Throat Warbler
wild river perch
songs Grandmother heard
caress my heart
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Debbie Guzzi | Go to this short poem
an orange peel scent
an orange peel scent
reminds me of grandmother---
my knarled hands
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Heather Hill | Go to this short poem
Grandma
Threaded memories, the smell of my grandmother seeps from the pillow
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Debbie Guzzi | Go to this short poem
an orange peel scent
an orange peel scent
reminds me of Grandmother--
my own knarled hands
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Marycile Beer | Go to this short poem
In Spirit
She watches over them
Soon a grandmother to be
Cathy
7-18-04
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Jim Wilson | Go to this short poem
Lullaby
My grandmother's voice
Contained her grandmother's voice,
An ancient lullaby.
The Yosemite Valley
Took million of years to form.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Sara Kendrick | Go to this short poem
Laundry
Laundry, odor, stink
Parmesan cheese, fungus, dirt
Bleach, washing powders
(Let me Haiku you from a grandmother's point of view.)
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Kesha Mashaw | Go to this short poem
My Grandmother's Masterpiece
My sweet grandmother bakes it
Tangy fruit inside
The crust sprinkled with sugar
Take a great big bite
Sensational taste
Red cherry
Pie
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Ace X | Go to this short poem
Morning before sunrise
Light is almost clear
The morning is here
Beautiful light, beautiful moment
Your grandmother and all it has been
Now or then before a sunrise moment.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Barbara Gorelick | Go to this short poem
Grandma's Mirror
beneath some blankets
in my grandmother's' old trunk
a silver mirror
keeping the secrets of youth
my face reflecting her past
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Short
grandmother
poem by
kurtis scott aka curtis futch jr | Go to this short poem
GRANDMOTHER CHURCH HATS
some or side
set on head at the side
she ware them all
at all her calls
to teach and preach
she walk like a cat
move like a rat
in HER
my
GRANDMOTHER CHRUCH HAT
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Short
grandmother
poem by
richard ferry | Go to this short poem
The Perfect Woman
I called her Gana All my life Not long enough Wish More than anything Had one more chance To say I love you Marie My grandmother
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Tirzah Conway | Go to this short poem
Grandmother Willow's Wisdom...
Grandmother Willow’s wisdom passes through her leaves,
If you sit and rest beneath her bows, her wisdom you’ll receive!
~For the "Give Wisdom It's Beauty" contest~
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen | Go to this short poem
Grandmother
Grandmother
Ocean
Waves come crashing
and my heart weeps again
rhythmically sensing your soul there…
ashes.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 19, 2010
Poetic form: Cinquain
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Christy Hardy | Go to this short poem
Famous
When I was a little girl,
my only wish, was that
someday, I would be famous.
My grandmother always said,
"you can be anything you want to be,"
and I believed her, Maybe, I did not believe in me.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Lorenzo Pacheco | Go to this short poem
My Great Grandmother
My Great Grandmother
Trinidad Pacheco
I Miss you
but I know that your happy
You were always kind and giving
you never missed are Birthday's
I will see you again oneday
In Heaven.
R.IP Great Grandmother
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Ray Dillard | Go to this short poem
Grandmother's Turkey
My Grandmother's recipe
Here, yet she is gone.
Plump turkey stuffed with veggies,
Spices sprinkled on.
Basted until done.
Delicious,
YUM!
I'm most thankful for family!
P.S.- Complete recipe available upon request by Soup Mail.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Nola Perez | Go to this short poem
SEEING THINGS
January & February this year,
prescription lenses lost. I count
the cost (it cost me dear).
A place for everything
and everything in its place,
my grandmother said,
but I only know
where my glasses are
when they're on my face.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Jim Grecco | Go to this short poem
Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mothers Day,
To a very special mother,
Tons of hugs and kisses,
Even though you're just my grandmother,
You're the best mother ever,
And no one can disagree,
And even though you're just my grandmother,
You're still a mother to me.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Josey Portas | Go to this short poem
It all adds up
One falsely accusing grandmother,
One misunderstanding brother.
One tear upon the cheek,
One heart that is very weak.
One life that was sad from the start,
One pair of lovers torn apart.
One very chastising world,
And one very sad, lonely girl.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Ali Matheny | Go to this short poem
Tick Tick Tick BOOM! ! ! !
I run in the park but time seems like I'm trapped in the
Old grnd father clock in my grandmothers house.
Tick Tick Tick BOOM !
It seems like love can't find it's way to my heart
But this emptyness is as slow as I can see.
Tick Tick Tick BOOM !
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Marquis Turner | Go to this short poem
Denise Mother's Poem
Denise
(D)evoted daugther, mother, wife, grandmother.
(E)goistic not in your description.
(N)ice caring loving person.
(I)ntelligent educated beautiful woman you are.
(S)uccessful. So many ways you been blessed.
(E)ver lasting phenomenal woman. my mother.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Joy Petten | Go to this short poem
MY GRANDMA MY HEART
To you I am thankful,
for all that you give.
To you I owe this life thatI live.
You taught me to be all I can be.
Often I failed,
Yet you didnt give up on me.
In my life there will never be another,
To hold a candle to you , my dearest grandmother.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
R Kumari | Go to this short poem
Brought up my late Grandmother (2005)
Grandmother Grandmother can’t you see
That all of you is a part of me
Whether you were absent you were not
I have got everything you have got
Grandmother Grandmother you fed me strong
Even though you were gone all along
I love you and miss you so much
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Michael Wyms | Go to this short poem
Grandmothers
The sweetest things I've ever known
Is both of my grandmothers' love
I'm still their baby though I'm grown
To hear their voice would be enough
To count the times I think of you
Would be seventy times seven
When it is my dream come true
I'm seeing you both in Heaven
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Taylor Graham | Go to this short poem
Stricture
A clearing vision fails.
Nothing is what it seems.
Your inheritance, scuffed
lenses, ammonia, sins
of a grandmother’s house.
Of a grandmother’s house
nothing departs unchanged.
Elbows, knees and knuckles
scraped raw by scour-pads,
solvent, sting of scrubbed air.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Glen Enloe | Go to this short poem
Heirlooms
Opal grandmother eyes,
watery milk glass veins
in stick arms
throb weakly,
tense tight white thread
into frayed, thin quilts.
There is a slight rustle
of desperation, a hope
of completion
as smudged pigeons
shatter wind
and winter gives up
its gin clear grace.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Rob Vittozzi | Go to this short poem
My Grandmother
My Grandmother I miss her so
Her smiling face when I see her
She could always make my day better
But she had gotten ill
Went to a better place
My grandmother I miss her so
Is always in my heart and soul
She will always be forever and always.
My Grandmother I miss her so
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Short
grandmother
poem by
chamonique knowles | Go to this short poem
Legendary women in my life
The smell of my mother
It’s the Coco Chanel fragrance she wears every day
It’s the scent of her make up
It’s the aroma of coffee and spearmint candy
My grandmother smells of sugar and roses
Of thank giving dinner and sweet potato pie
Of chocolate and perfume
Of spice and chamomile tea
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grandmother
poem by
Amy Frazey | Go to this short poem
The Only One
There is only one yawn in existence.
It passes from person to person in the space of a blink.
Extremely contagious, you can catch it by sight alone.
This person, that person, a person in the next room.
Who will catch it next?
You, me, your grandmother?
Watch for the yawn and see.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Pace INK-U-SCRIPT | Go to this short poem
INK-U-SCRIPT
Gregory
Christian, loving, caring and protector
Brother of George, Jeremy, and Raichelle
Lover of life, my mom, and grandmother
Who feels Love, Faith, and Success
Who fears God, myself, and Not Man
Who would like to see the Son, the Father and Holy Spirit
Resident of Houston, Tx
Pace
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Robert Pettit | Go to this short poem
Bot Trip Treet
I
don’t want
to call you
my grandmother.
You appear human,
You are just a machine,
programmed to act like nana.
Electric flows through you, not blood.
Brother and sister love you. I don’t.
Based on the short story “I Sing the Body Electric” by Ray Bradbury
Robert Pettit
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Kathryn Lesperance | Go to this short poem
Smoke
I've always been
hypnotized by smoke,
how it curls and hangs floating,
the only bare remains of
fleeting thoughts.
The scent raises nostalgia
from thin air.
My sweet grandmother
in her warm kitchen,
sipping milk with ice,
waving the trails
of her lit cigarette away.
They danced like phantoms.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen | Go to this short poem
eap-GRANDMOTHERS
eap-GRANDMOTHERS
A grandmother loves grandsons:
in the womb, at childbirth
and the times sad or with mirth
by the soul without girth
in the love, with no dearth
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 12, 2010
Inspired by Poetry Soup member contest: RHYME TIME
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Bakari Wright | Go to this short poem
I Miss You
Grandmother I miss you, the cool times we had,
The memories that I still have are making me so sad.
It's all good though because I know that you're in a better place,
The one that I'm in now is filled with so much hate.
Wars over religion, grandmother I wish I was with you
and wisper slowly in your ear I miss you.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Pat Dickey | Go to this short poem
" WRITE A LINE OR TWO "
Did you ever stop and think
When you spent the day all alone
There was someone else too
That was just as lonely as you ?
So if you are feeling blue
Just sit down and write a line or two
For someone that loves you dear
Will be waiting from you to hear.
Written by my Grandmother Mamie Rachel Sterling/Sinner/Earl 1940
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Vanessa Brown | Go to this short poem
My Life
My life is what it is
Let me live it my way
My life
My life is my son and my mom and my grandmother
My life
My life is my dad
My life
My life is my family
My life
My life is my man
My life
My life is me
My life
My life is what it is
Let me live it my way
My life
Vanessa N Brown
Copyright ©2005 Vanessa Brown
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Carolyn Sears | Go to this short poem
Happy Mothers Day
On this beautiful Sunday morning
To all the mothers and grandmothers
From each and every land
Mothers are all made special
In each and every way
So I'm sending you a teddy bear
And A boutique of roses
On this special mothers day
From Me & My Family
Wishing You A Very Special
Mothers day
On this Sunday Morning
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Thvia Shetley | Go to this short poem
Maternal algorithms (poetry for moms and math nerds)
I am the sum of the ages
beginning before my mother,
before my grandmother,
and before my grandmother's mother.
I am the product of their matriarchal choices,
the quotient of their actions, reflections, and self-images.
I am the difference of their generations.
And I bequeath the equation of this inheritance
to the matrices of my living legacies.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Dina Televitskaya | Go to this short poem
Small hippopotamus (for children)
The small hippopotamus
Has taken his grandmother's glasses,
Has taken his father's hat and scarf,
And a portfolio his uncle's briefcase.
He put all of the clothing on himself,
Picked up the briefcase,
has looked in a mirror,
Has scratched his own snub-nosed nose
and said, "Well, now I am grown up!"
("Well, now I am an adult!)
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Jerri Ward | Go to this short poem
i miss her
i miss her, i really
miss her so much
there’s not a day that goes
by that i don’t think about
her, my grandmother, she
taught me how to color
we would swing on the
porch and pick shapes
out of the clouds
and she could give you
a hug that could
bring sunshine to
any rainy day
i really miss
that the most of all
i miss her, i really
miss her so much
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Barbara Stewart | Go to this short poem
Well Nested
In her grandmother's old farmhouse
Amid her poetry ,collections grew
Showcasing imaginatively till
Every room overfilled
Discovered what could remain or to let go
Decisions of compromise ,loss maybe so
Life's lessons she learned,loved and knew
Well nested between white washed walls,
and loving souls taught, lay's an everlasting harvest
Rooted memories hold....
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Robert Pettit | Go to this short poem
A New Baby in Australia
This is an event grander than any other.
A friend of mine has become a grandmother.
A girl was born to her son and daughter-in-law.
This is the cutest baby anyone ever saw.
Eight pounds, nine ounces, and fifty-one centimeters in length,
this baby girl named Ashley is the picture of strength.
This is a most blessed event.
There is a new life on the Australian continent.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Angela Alldredge | Go to this short poem
Myself
Angela
Mother,young grandmother,true friend,wife
Sister of Shane and Gaytha
Lover of Roger, flower guarding and horses
Who feels love, lost and pain
Who fears drowning, Gods wrath and being alone
Who would like to see World peace, lost friends and Hawaii
Resident of Holly Pond, Alabama
Alldrege-Cryer
Just a note to say I don't fear God just his wrath.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Jennifer Brooks | Go to this short poem
Post partum memories
Swaddled
in an Afghan
woven by my step grandmother's
thin spindly fingers,
I am
warmer than the womb
then the
pale yellow grey
wall paper
that
seems to surround
and wobble
like the water globe
on my dresser.
Above,
I see
my mothers face,
round,
soft,
tallow cheeks,
I want to squeeze them
pull the rosiness,
into my small palms
and eat it up.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
tara jennings | Go to this short poem
intellectualizing
My Grandmother died, and I have not penned my loss
nor I have stooped to pick her rose
and smell the scent of her.
I can not allow the sights to emerge,
when I must close my eyes,
I can not afford to let her go
nor allow myself to go with.
There is a world of grief and screaming
covered in my intellectualizing
but I can neither nod hello or whisper goodbye,
I must stay this path she set.
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Short
grandmother
poem by
caroline mackey | Go to this short poem
Maxine
A cup of coffee here, a newspaper there.
A routine you shared with few.
Your smile, your laughter, and that gentle touch
that said you truly care.
Treasured moments, no other can compare.
A true gem in the rough, always know a piece
of you will live on with me.
For you see you were more than a friend to me.
A grandmother sent for me.
A true gift from above.
Treasured always you will be.
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grandmother
poem by
Nancy Jones | Go to this short poem
Figured out the answer
I am a writer
I decided the day after
I got my hair
cut.
So that's what I do now
Eschew and eschew. Wow,
Can somebody tell me how
to stay right here in the now
and not be distracted
by bills and high taxes
and grandmother needing her hair done
while grandpa plays golf?
It can piss me off.
But I've familiarity with hardship and strife
methinks where I wanna be I'll need a wife!
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dedicated to Mary Clare
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Marcus Crane | Go to this short poem
Celebrate
no reason to party
yet a celebration .. life
dead ... but still alive
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like i said there is no reason to party
as i am preparing for the worst ..my grandmothers end :( .. we will be celebrating her life
instead of mourn about her death .. this goes out to everybody that lost someone close to
their heart
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Short
grandmother
poem by
Sara Kendrick | Go to this short poem
Great Grandmother
Sara
Kind, compassionate, gentle, loving
Great grandmother of Karter
Who feels great love for Karter
Great gran who feels care and concern
Great gran who fears the future of earth
Who would like to see peace and economic stability for whole world
Residence of USA
Several have asked about Karter
I was going to write this for
Carol's contest but did not get
it done..
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