Grandfather Bereavement Poems

How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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For a blessed hour to sleep and awaken in 
your presence,
as the dusty antique grandfather clock chimes in 
solemnity's hour of bereavement,
to whom I am...

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Missing you
By Franklin Price
07/05/2022

I miss you so, my darling,
My friend, soul mate and wife
When we said our vows, we meant them
And we honored them for...

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World War II vet, aged one hundred,
once risked his life for his mother land.
His country in a Covid war,
he once again lent them a hand.

Once...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn...

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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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The Morning We received The Call Oh How The Tears Did Fall
She Went To Sleep Your Beautiful Bride, Your Best Friend
Woke Your Widow
Oh How I...

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Goodbye Alfred
  I had not seen Alfred for a while, had been busy
selling off my donkey farm, with this down I drove into town
but...

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I'm so sorry I wasn't there when you slipped away,
I battle with my guilt every single day.
I did come to see you, so I could...

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Grandfather's Suitcase

He left it,
for me, she says. 
Inside it
are his trilby
and the books
we used to read,
and somehow,  his scent of pipe.


9-5-2017...

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 A Letter to Granddad

I remember the last moments before you passed away
Walking out the door, and hearing you say
“I can’t remember his face, I...

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Your arrival predate mine by two generations
Five weeks now since
Your permanent departure
Internal thoughts conflicted
Forever reminiscin’
Your heavily influenced overture

13, a younglin’
Curtain rise’s inception
On my personal narrative
Shaped...

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THE SOUL FISH

Down onto the sunny - but windless beach - one dayMy grandfather and I on the water’s edge - we stayed

The gentle ebb...

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I was not there but I believe,
As you took your last breath,
You saw a field so green, with flowers and butterflies,
And golden rivers that flowed...

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