Grandfather Ballad Poems

He walked up Mill Street past the Foundry,
That citadel across from Nailers Row.
With eight kids and their mother as dependents,
He earned the pay that brought...

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A popular person when he was a lad
All those who met him were kinda glad
Until one day it all changed for the worst
He stopped seeing...

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Newfoundlanders can row, you should see some of'em go,
when they puts a punt on a pond. 
But I don't like this mess, all this Race...

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Born in 2000 he comes from a long line of athletes. His maternal  great great great grandfather was a short stop in the *****...

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Thinking of her day and night,
wrinkled, withering, hair turning white.

Wish I had time to write her a letter,
naw, she's alright, she always gets better.

I finally...

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look honey
time is money, 
you should've learned that from
that nutty father of yours.
if their is a will their:Their's a way.
"as aggressive as he is,
is as...

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What will your grand children’s stories be
Of your adventures told in the police family 
Where the pursuits and the captures abound
As told by you with...

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Telling "White Lies"

My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,

experienced grinding poverty, no
matter...

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Today you learned how to tie 
your shoes all by yourself.
It’s one more day that I’m 
so proud of you.
I’m counting the reasons 
why you...

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My Maternal Grandfather Said -- I
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Solomon said to Kash Dev
'Drain this valley !'.
I'll but , Hamala Pari, the charming fairy...!
So the big giant had drained...

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My Maternal Grandfather said --II
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Mousa was eighty metres tall!
And had a habit of carrying a stick --
some forty metres long!
Ooj Bin Anukh , the great...

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My Babe on the other side
Had a interesting, second lasting conversation with Suey who died, but I got the concept in that split second.
I asked...

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I loved my Granddad because he was so special to me...
He was the type of person when I grow up I'd like to be.

"Don't let...

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3 Monarch butterflies, her spirit still lives on
3 Monarch butterflies show me she’s not really gone
3 Monarch butterflies flying through the wind
To take me back...

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Sometimes I don’t know which one of us is broken
And which one of us does the breaking
I’m still not sure exactly who I’ve become
Or if...

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