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Grandfather Death Poems

These Grandfather Death poems are examples of Death poems about Grandfather. These are the best examples of Death Grandfather poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Thinking Of My Late Grandfather
Wearing my late grandpa's shoes
As I do what he would never approve,
Because this life is what I choose
As I have realize I have nothing to...

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Categories: addiction, death, drug, grandfather,



The Shed
The Shed...

was Granddad's before he died.
And now its loneliness reached out to the boy
from the shaded, shuffling shadows 
that shushed the sheltered garden.
They pulled and...

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© Ian Souter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, farewell, grandfather, love,

The Moth Man
The headlights of a tractor drew my great-grandfather to his death.
Anglerfish of steel, power take-off a maddening buzz –
Was the barn dark? Could he see...

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Categories: allusion, death, light, violence,

The empty chair
The moon shone bright a little less tonight
My family too, seemed to hide from sight.
We were all in our rooms, pondering over what we once...

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© Ella Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, angel, death, deep,

Gradual Grief - Mar 30
?A grumpy grandpa (from Greece), gruff and gray,
is grazing on a grain of grass, graceful. 
He’s grumbling that the grim grave is growing 
greater and...

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Categories: age, death, feelings, grandfather,



Gone
Damn.
You're really gone.
I guess it hit me on the way 
  To your celebration of life ceremony.
It's going to feel weird when I go...

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© madi moore  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 8th grade, death, grandfather,

Grandad's Legacy
Seventeen years of memories,
Memories we created,
Forever to be won,
Your absence leaves a gaping hole,
A missing piece that can never be whole.

In silence, I hear your...

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© Anakha A R  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blessing, death, grandchild, granddaughter,

In Another Life
In another life, I’ll love you, 
For my devotion won't be new. 
The time together that we spend,
Will last when we ascend. 

So hold me...

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© Adam Silk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, emotions, endurance, feelings,

Premium Member To the father I chose
I sit at the foot of your bed while all others pray—
As you fall this dark December night slowly away—
I wish that you be carried...

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Categories: dad, death, emotions, father,

Murmur
My father's heart beats beneath the baseboards
of my chest
What scares me isn't the furnace inside it
It isn't all the hate and ignorance

It shuffles on its...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, death, father,

Hindsight 20 20
Reminiscing through the album of perpetuity,
I came across a thorn that kissed my skin, 
and murmured into my soul, a powerful stance,
stitching soft whispers in...

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Categories: death, angel, beautiful, beauty, best

Sun Rose
Three years ago was only yesterday:
at dawn I opened my eyes and the blinds.
Bouquets you'd left before you passed away;
those on my window daily I...

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Categories: color, death, flower, grandfather,

To Whom does this come
When bodies turn to ash and float in the wind
When whatever makes you, you follows
Floating.
You left your body, a hollow shell
Not you anymore
Just bones.
We couldn’t...

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© The Ant  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, grandfather, grief, happiness,

Premium Member Parlor Portrait
When Grandpa died and his clock still ticked,
he fell from a ladder by a tree -
nor could that clock on the wall predict
when I died...

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Categories: art, child, death, grandfather,

Premium Member Unsent Letters

Those who’ve gone on before me… what I would have liked to have told them – in those unsent letters, those unwritten stories, those unbroken...

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Categories: cry, death, lonely,


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