Grandmother Cousin Poems

Just a simple dress with a matching bonnet
Yet there was nothing plain about the child
Sherrill had gorgeous fat curls and sky-blue eyes
Everyone remarked on them...

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I came sneaking around to see what I could see,                  I saw you long before you saw...

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Mama and Granny
Herded children through the kitchen
Out the screen door, to the yard
Where we wouldn’t be underfoot

Cousins all brown from summer
Sun baking soft skin and...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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When I was a little kid, 
I used to play with my 
Little cousins,
In my grandma's huge 
Old house 
With no electricity... 

It was a...

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Laying my head back, eyes closing,
reminiscing, the years falling away into decades ago
to the 1950s at my grandparents' grand home
for Christmas.

It was a gracious dining...

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I wonder if THC
and our Holy Cooperative Spirit
could be cousins
like Grandmother Moon
and Grandmother Tree.

Why do you want to wonder 
about something as curious as that,
dear?

Oh,...

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Thinking of the old days, the people and places. There are so many memories, there are so many faces. There were hard times a plenty...

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When we learned our elderly, kind granddad had died,
All paternal cousins traveled, gathered and cried.
Later, the ‘reception drive’ offered varied rides;
In Rachel’s auto, they shared...

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My Family
I love my family from the core of my heart
From a far off distance and miles apart
Being a daughter is the best feeling
A family...

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I am God's child, first and forever
I am known by many different titles, a daughter
I am a wife
I am a mother
I am a grandmother
I am...

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Tonight we’ll sit around the table
While we’re reminiscing
Both about the Israelites
And those whom we are missing.

Every Seder takes me back
To those when I was young.
I...

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The refrain was so soft I almost didn’t hear,
When the essence of WOMAN sighed in my ear.
“It’s safe to go back” were the words that...

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