Best Grandads Poems

It s only a wrist watch 
with a faded leather strap.
With it's gold numbers 
a precious possession that's kept in a box.
Shown to the grand...

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My Grandad wore his leather belt with pride 
Lions head buckle he polished till it shone
Always said I could have it when he died
His death...

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I'm no good in a kitchen but, I can cook stuff all the same
Around here, say "the recipe" and most folks know my name
It hasn't...

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Grandad's sticks ,Albert and Me

Grandad walks slowly and uses two sticks !
He and Nanny came to see us today
thats me, mummy, daddy and baby scustin...

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Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs 
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their...

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My grandad was there when I was little;
My grandad would always make me giggle;
Telling jokes, stories and tales, my grandads love has never failed.

In Alder...

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I remember his words, not that long ago
Telling of such times when crimson flowed
My Grandad, my hero, who's memories told
My bedroom window I look, it...

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I'm  nursing a headache the size of Corfu
my stomach is tied up in knots,
it's the seventeenth time that I've been to the loo
feeling sick...

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Appeared to be a normal day,
At our University of the Third Age,
Grannies and Grandads writing epic lit.,
Forgot our hearing aids and blankets....
We walked away from...

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May all sacred,
but not quite omnipotent,
fathers learn this day
as we impatiently correct
our stress-disordered sons

That respect is earned,
so maybe disrespect is too
positive and negative layered
for and...

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Family photographs.
Pictures of youth, 
All smiling happily,
Hiding the truth …
Grandads at work,
Grandmas in rocking chairs.
Dads in their gardens,
Mums, taken unawares …

Pinholes in the fabric of...

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When one sees the penguins stand
in ice born storm at minus forty
why don't they move to a better land.
They stand together and don't complain
then they...

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in this room, i sit and find
explore my thoughts explore my mind 
one conclusion, weird but funny
greed for hate,love for money
do they lie,tell us the...

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Little boy, dirty knees, 
kite floating in the breeze
Findings frogs, tadpoles too, 
fall in water, soaked right through
Lolly stick race, down the stream, 
school apple...

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It was at grandads old farm one winter we did freeze 
the snow was so high it reached up to our knees 
even the cows...

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