Grandmother Blank Verse Poems

My great great grandmother could not wait.
Day of the Dead was two weeks away.
She visited me on the 16th of October.
I was sworn to secrecy,...

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The dry, frayed ends of autumn, the garden 
charred by successive waves of night frosts, 
the scent of wild grapes in the air.

Outside the kitchen’s...

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One needs to believe in good ~ not evil, 
our life is short then we go far away. 
Many believe in the heaven above, 
many...

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Have you forgotten you have dementia 
I've been gravely expressing my feelings 
how you left the stove on again and again
I have reminded you it's...

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Today that I don't have you by my side

And that I feel the emptiness that your absence leaves, I just sink between the memories. And...

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The slum

 When I was born the manger was occupied 
I got a cot at a Home run by the salvation- army
and stayed the until...

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My heart still feels those times spent in the warmth
     while in your arms as your sweet pride and joy-
but life...

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This chair has chipped paint.     
Its shadow gangly 
in the light spilling through 
the window. A deep 
buttercup bisque steeps.

Through this...

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Spending the Night in a Temple

The ice rains hard upon the temple walls
As the fires within keep the visitors warm
The 2 brothers deep in a...

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A little lipstick could not hurt.
But she was eight, and refused lunch after it was on.
She thought she was "fat" now, and she wanted to...

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Where do the naysayers and wall-builders come from
Do they imagine their ancestors were spontaneously 
Dropped here one day, white of skin, superior of being
Did no...

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She could see pink
over the vanity that her husband had built.
Someone had removed its mirror,
oh, long ago 
and put it in the alcove with the...

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So, I took a trip to Heaven,
But I took the trip in my mind.
I wanted to see what it was like,
To leave you all behind.
When...

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The passing

It is so long ago; the memory is fuzzy as an old photo,
the room was warm, the coal fire burned lustily
I looked out of...

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There was a noble sadness hiding in her eyes.
She wears a smile, though elements of insecurities
Trembled in its corners...
Dignity and suffering, combating
for the control of...

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