Best Grandfather Poems
Below are the all-time best Grandfather poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of grandfather poems written by PoetrySoup members
MY GRANDFATHERTwenty years have passed by since you left this world
For the world you are officially gone
For me you are always around
The greatest teacher ,my biggest...
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Categories:
absence, anniversary, death, grandfather,
Form:
Ode
GRANDPA*GRANDMA WAITS IN THE GARDEN*
Hi, grandpa, it's me again!
Your dentures sit in an open glass above the nightstand
Remember the tears grandma sang before she passed?
The...
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Categories:
grandfather, beautiful, care, death, grandchild,
Form:
Free verse
Grandma still calls your nameI will always remember those uneven paths,
which led me to you -
sorrowful reminder of promises I could not keep.
All you wanted was to sit...
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Categories:
death, grandfather, grandson,
Form:
Free verse
EULOGY IN MY HEART
Out in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows...
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Categories:
beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Haibun
Sepia Recollections
I sit here on the old porch steps, that I have always known
This weathered stoop, with gray floorboards
of creaks and groans, flaws and chips, ......
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Categories:
family, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
Land of Opportunity
I take my hat off for the flag
I stand up straight; let others sag
I get all weepy for Old Glory
thinking of...
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Categories:
america, cry, grandfather, grandmother,
Form:
Couplet
Granddad in HeavenYou left before you could meet them
"I want to live to see my grandkids" you’d say
Unfortunately you never got the chance
So let me introduce them...
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Categories:
grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Mirror BallI'm sure this hill is where it stood.
Amazing shapes of stuccoed wood.
A glass-brick, neon stream-lined place.
As if it flew from outer space,
A swing band auditorium,
An...
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Categories:
grandfather, allegory, allusion, analogy, color,
Form:
Rhyme
- On The Moon -
Thea, grandfather Alferd's dog died, she was so old and sick
Now is Thea on the moon, says Adrian who is six
Michael Jackson died so unexpectedly...
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Categories:
death, dog, funny, grandfather,
Form:
Couplet
Nice Day for a FuneralWritten by Gail DeBole
In memory of my grandfather
Nice Day For a Funeral
I
(You were always old. I can't remember a
time when you were not.)
Cried
(And you...
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Categories:
death, family, funeral, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
AT AGE TEN
On this October's mild stirrings
I watched ached nights flicker, to glow
Around his hair like angel wings
Recalling joyrides... so mellow.
That in hushed tones,I called Gramps'...
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Categories:
age, devotion, grandfather,
Form:
Sonnet
I Love You, Old ManI once had knew a man
Who became older than a dead man
A tired soul, he was.
Looked like he'd never seen a bed
...
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Categories:
grandfather, age, dad, emotions, grandchild,
Form:
Rhyme
VINTAGE BOOKS
My Grandpa was inimitable… uncommon.
He could make a story out of a passing wind
and have me crying, giggling like an imp--
this God-given knack could spin...
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Categories:
books, grandfather,
Form:
Narrative
The Soul Fish 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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Categories:
grandfather, absence, appreciation, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Couplet
Old Man TimeRedeployed in an ugly skin
Pleated and spotted and grumpy within
What I call walking ,they call shuffling
I'm bending down to tie my shoe
While Im down here...
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Categories:
best friend, funny, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
Call Your Mother
Call Your Mother
Pick up the phone...
do it now.
If you can.
Later if you must,
I trust that you,
know the difference.
She never put you...
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Categories:
grandfather, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
SOMETIMES LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH
He loved his grandpa with all his heart
All the hugs in the world
Could not heal him
How we dreaded the time when
Memories would be all that’s...
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Categories:
death, grandfather, grandson, love,
Form:
Free verse
Santa's Special Delivery: a collab
Brutal was the biting wind,
sweeping brown locks of a tiny urchin
side to side, often hiding her eyes.
Oversized slippers she had donned
were lost in...
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Categories:
granddaughter, grandfather, love,
Form:
Prose
Dear GrandpaThe leaves have turned brown and crisp
And I've remembered
How much you've been missed
On a day like today
It's the days when I feel down
And...
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Categories:
absence, farewell, grandfather, grief,
Form:
Elegy
'Love me with your Time'
I might make a noise right now
There will be a time when I go silent
Will you miss my racket?
In those days of silence?...
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Categories:
age, grandfather, grandmother, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Wood Carving Wood Carving
He sits there, not quite motionless, for
even the comfortable must alter their
perception...
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Categories:
childhood, grandfather, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Origin
Where do I come from? Well we all come
from somewhere. I was born in a small
town, here in in good old U S...
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Categories:
life, parents, grandmother, grandfather,
Form:
Bio
FracturedMy grandfather on my father’s side, was a pecker-toothed sidle who raped his
daughter when she was just ten. He threw down vodka from an...
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Categories:
childhoodfather, father, grandfather, mother,
Form:
Narrative
Presidents Day
I was eating breakfast yesterday with my 12 year old granddaughter and I asked her “What day is tomorrow?” Without skipping a...
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Categories:
culture, funny, granddaughter, grandfather,
Form:
Blitz
Personal Memories
Personal Memories - Three Generations
Three generations in between them now so kindly lie;
sweet great granddaughter and great grand-papa can now belie
those years. She...
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Categories:
granddaughter, grandfather, memory,
Form:
Monorhyme