Best Great Aunt Poems

She was my father's aunt which made her my great aunt.                                  ...

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I just found out
that I'm a great aunt,
he was born just yesterday
I need to see him, that's all I want.

I haven't met him yet
he's two months premature,
I hope to have him in my life
with friends and family, he'll truly endure.

I can't wait to hold him
in...

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My Great Great Aunt Prissy had a magical dog. 
She never needed friends but she did have a blog. 
Her acquaintances were thrilled with her pix 
Of a talking dog with costumes so thick 

She would put hilarious captions under the blog 
Stating the words...

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Sometimes my Aunt and Uncle would visit us
I guess my Aunt was close to four hundred pounds
If you care about staying in this old world
Try not to be in her seat when she sits down!

I knew that she'd be there when I got out of...

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Your parents gave me the news at Wilton's Music Hall
a place of joy and drunkenness
Laurel and Hardy, Hetty King, Marie Lloyd and now
A Great Aunt.
A figure of jest, jeers and laughter
what fun, what fun.

A great Aunt - fast track aging
I shall buy a lavender shawl...

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She was the bawdiest gal, they said.
Her eyes were green, her hair was red.
There were rumors of course
She rode nude on her pet horse
But we never knew her, for she was long dead.

You’re luckier for it, they told me.
She lived to be age eighty-three
She had...

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She opened her cantankerous mouth and out came the truth
There was nothing not honest about my clever Aunt Ruth
The whats-its and fruts-its were scared of her though.
Especially terrified that she was way off in the know.

She would not hesitate to give her opinions on zebras...

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Great Aunt Ada
not thought of her for years
she made me laugh
till I cried real tears
fascinated by her talk
never  wanting her to go
her every sentence finished 
with like and that you know

hidden under the table
her  delicious visiting days
mentally counting
each use of her phrase
as she...

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Great Aunt Maude had a bejeweled flair
With red and blue rhinestones in her hair
Black fluffy coat resembling grizzly bear
We could never outguess what she would wear

Her glitzy outfits were worn with care
Silver sequined gowns, shoulders often bare
She entices old men on the town square
All could...

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I want to know everything about you, I said.
She began talking, until I was green in my head.
I had opened up the floodgates of a woman who’d been dead.
I was the first person in fifty years who had stupidly said

Let me know everything. I am...

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in the worst shape ever
my great Aunt Heather
usually under the weather
good thoughts? Never.

Resigned to gloom forever.
no joy and not clever.
Focuses on bad news and weather.
I am sorry for Aunt Heather....

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Great Aunt Edda was super friendly when I first arrived.
Hugging and kissing me, holding me a bit too long.
I was pushing away, because her perfume was overwhelming.
I could not breathe, thought I would die in a coma of smelly old woman.

She held tight, with the...

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