My Maternal Grandmother
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“Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future.” – Helen Ketchum
You passed away many years ago
several decades before I was born
A person that I’d have loved to know
your sudden death still makes mum mourn
Your photograph in an ornate silver frame
has pride of place on mum’s dressing table
Not a day passes when she doesn’t say your name
Mum talks about you whenever she is able
Mum keeps your jewelry in a satin lined box
one day it will all be passed on to me
Simple pieces, not huge diamond rocks
knowing they were yours makes me happy
I missed out so much in my childhood days
envying my friends (although I didn’t show it)
But my genetic link’s apparent in poetic ways
because like my grandma, I too am a poet!
my grandmother’s face
captured in a photograph -
I wish I’d known her
Poet’s notes - although I knew my aunt and uncle both wrote I only discovered 3 years ago that my mother and grandmother also wrote poetry, sadly none of my mother's or grandmother's work exists for me to enjoy
Forms used, rhyme and senryu - classed for the contest as rhyme
Writing Challenge 1, August 2019 - Just Write - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart
8/11/19
Copyright © Jan Allison | Year Posted 2019
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