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Best Nonny Poems


Bella Nonny
Rest eternally,
You’ve touched my soul with your heart,
My peaceful angel....

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Categories: nonny, family, loss,
Form: Haiku
Gnoochi With Nonny
Summertime,
The living is lovely,
Gnoochi with Nonny,
Fresh dough,
Kneaded,
Love,
Needed,
For every step,
Chef caps adorn our crowns,
It’s a lovely afternoon,
Rich in tradition is our recipe,
Love is how it is conjured,
How I miss our days,
Of gnoochi and storytelling,
Memories are all that's left....

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Categories: nonny, death, dedication, faith, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ninny Nonny Noose
ninny nonny noose
     with a neck inside

stretchy stretchy stretch
     and the witch she died

golly, gallows in a gully
hanging hung in such a hurry

spell a spell a spell did she
with a bucket boiling full of tea

with which the...

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Categories: nonny, dark, fear, fun, magic,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



My Prayer For Nonny
It seems as if you are slipping further-
Further from life day by day
Your skin ages faster by the second,
Morphing to a pale shade of canary.

I cannot imagine you leaving me,
Though the truth becomes crystallized
Potentially fermenting into fact-
Any second now.

When all others cast me aside-
You sheltered...

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Categories: nonny, angst, caregiving, family, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry