Grandfather Drink Poems

Knock, knock, scritch, scratch
Who’re banging at the old door?
The other whispers hushly
Give in to the turning knob
The good one is no help

Nameless twins barge in
An...

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Manischewitz Blackberry Sangria Chèvere’

Manischewitz wines are made and bottled under strict
Rabbinical supervision of The Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America, the mark of quality
that signifies...

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He placed a strong arm
Around my small form
Carrying me to the darkness
The dreaded, musty 
Cellar, where canning jars
Lined the clammy shelves
And I felt the caress
Of...

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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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I feel like I've been burried alive ,
I'm loosing my mind , I've fallen behind , 
behind the line I could never cross or ever...

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The Perfect Christmas Gift

In a small bag, 
made of paper, 
the color of gold, 
old not new...
The handwritten letters, 
of a handful of kids, 
left...

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I still remember my childhood being poured out of me slowly
I was 7 or 8 when I experienced my grandfather suffer.
He choked to death on...

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Tick tock the grandfather clock
Briefly stops before it pops
Twelve times then it will be midnight
The start of my birthday
That has fallen on hump day this...

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Grandpa had a good idea
for treating his sore knee.
He'd get a jar and fill it up
with raisins; and then he

would fill the jar with brandy...

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A Home Brew Fiasco

My lips were parched, my tongue on fire
another shot I did so very much desire
Thank my pappy for this kicking home brew
O'...

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Gin Again
On the mountain top
Old grandpa is making his gin again
He presses the corn to fill the pot.
All the way to the top.
The bottles they...

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Born American, sixth generation of great-grands all German,
not much liking sausage or sauerkraut, English speaking all the way,

except the Germany of my ancestry was fought...

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Every night before he ate,
My Zayde* had a drink,
A shot glass filled up to the brim
With whiskey – rye, I think.

His hands were shaky, but...

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