Best Grandmothers Poems

Sometimes when
nightfalls of summer 
feel so cold,
and everything seems dark,
I turn to the heat of 
my grandmother’s soup. 
Life can exist 
within bone China 
or simple ceramic textures, 
savoring salt and spices,
but when it becomes
bland, we seek 
sentimental essences 
to ease our yearning. 
When watercolor
sunsets...

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My Grandmothers Hands

Grandmother Pearl,
the Ozark mountain girl,
picking flowers and 
singing down the valley,
in the sun and the rain.
Her hands, older than her age, they were,
already a woman’s touch.
You were such a little girl, when your hands
took on the cares of this world, the mountains
 ringing...

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Ever since I can remember we visit my grandmother´s house every Sunday.  In the dinning room were we usually spend the while there, she has always had this big glass carved showcase lying against the wall. This big showcase of hers has all types...

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Some songs
Are of saddest times
The skies of darkest days
Some words
Bring such discontent
There are no gentle ways
To tell the tale
Without the tears
That tear the heart in two
But I will share
This saddest tale
Of hearts both black and true

There was a widow 
With a son
He was a spunky...

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eap-GRANDMOTHERS

A grandmother loves grandsons:

in the womb, at childbirth

and the times sad or with mirth

by the soul without girth 

in the love, with no dearth

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
     January 12, 2010


Inspired by Poetry Soup member contest:  RHYME TIME 	
Sponsored by: Brian...

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My Grandmother's House!
That country-styled house of yesteryear has gone so fast now a sweet memory of times gone away from me, You could smell the breeze pushing and blowing a fragrance in the air. This story is told where memory has been and will be...

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The sweetest things I've ever known
Is both of my grandmothers' love
I'm still their baby though I'm grown
To hear their voice would be enough

To count the times I think of you
Would be seventy times seven
When it is my dream come true
I'm seeing you both in Heaven...

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acrostic, three quatrains

G - Great women of the Bible I will share,
R - Ruth and Rahab, two women who would wear 
A - ancestry in King David’s lowly birth,
N - never daring to think they had much worth.
D - Dauntless Rahab gave spies a helping...

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Dear God
as i kneel hear and pray
help me lead them in a way
though there expectations may fall
let there hearts stand tall
for that is their connection
to go in the right direction
though the path may seem troubled
they will always find their way
Amen...

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I still see her in her white rocking chair.
Sharp hearing and her once, sharp vision going.
Rocking, dreaming of her grandchildren growing.
Their toys, left abandoned, at which with love, she stares.


Her heart broken from painful emptiness!
Those days of hugs and love, forever gone.
When, with those grandchildren,...

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Raking back the leaves to dig
Roots that would soon become
Brilliant displays of vibrant hues
Creating music in the wind song
With flamboyant heads swaying
Dancing softly like generous hopes
Assorted dreams drifting gently

Picking cornfield beans, shades of
Olive mysteries, sent to bring richest
Wisdoms and warmth, miracles
Buried beneath the slow caress
Of...

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Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise like a chorus harmonizing 
...In this vast of an eternal fold.

For I am Harriet Tubman
...leading souls unseen.
A beacon blazing hope, through...

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Inspired by previous contest (women in my family)

Women in my family
Were unique in every way
Though miles and years apart
There’s very much to say

Women in my family
Have left a legacy
Filled with pain and strife
But, also, honesty

Women in my family
Weren’t perfectly petite
But have you met a nice...

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We’re in Paris, staying with my Grandmère (Grandmother) for a few days around Mother’s day.
Peter (my bf) is getting to know my Grandmère. They’ve started to relax and enjoy each other. This time, when they met, they hugged.
“You look great!” Peter said, “Have you had...

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Unsung Laborers Day of Humanity!

Hail to the unsung laborers who labor every day for a year, and at least up to eighteen more years!
Hail to the unsung laborers who labor as they carry a child inside of their womb for a whole year!
Hail the unsung...

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