Lumber Jack and Grandma Nora

Lumber Jack likes his pancakes with kernels of sweet Iowa corn
Freshly picked out of his Great Grandma Nora’s garden
She spoils him by warming up his maple syrup and melting his butter.
He is a forty-six-year-old great grandson who lives at home
With his mother’s grandmother,
a kind hearted woman whom he carries from room to room
because at ninety-six her legs stopped working.
She does for him, and he does for her.
It is the best relationship he has ever had.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Bianco Avatar
August 27, 2021 at 7:33 AM
Hi Karen , Very nice straight forward poem about dedication, dependency, love and in the end sadness, Godbless, Anthony
Krutsinger Avatar
August 27, 2021 at 9:49 AM
Thank you Anthony
Hawkins Avatar
August 25, 2021 at 9:53 PM
We need more heart warming poems like this.
Krutsinger Avatar
August 26, 2021 at 6:10 AM
Thank you Shirley; we need more heart warming people too!
Hankins Avatar
August 25, 2021 at 1:43 PM
Oh my, what a poignant...no, incredibly wonderful synergistic relationship they have. Each are a blessing to the other. I love it.
Krutsinger Avatar
August 26, 2021 at 6:10 AM
Thank you Hank I enjoyed it when this poem pranced out of my imagination. I had a great grandma Nora who was four foot 11 and had 18 children.
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