Grandchildren Family Poems

Rewind
By Julia Shaw

At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding...

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When I sit and watch TV I am bombarded by perfection…
Everybody has bright white teeth and a silky smooth complexion.

They live in enormous houses in...

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With the family visiting again this holiday..as they have so many times before
It was once again time to revisit…the back of our old closet door.

On...

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Be That Rock
by Michael R. Burch
 
for George Edwin Hurt Sr.
 
When I was a child
I never considered man’s impermanence,
for you were a mountain of...

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         A Magical Family Christmas

The smell of flickering, tall balsam candles,
reflecting on the mirrored wall.

Heavenly music dancing...

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I remember how I loved babysitting our grandchildren 
how neatly they fit into my arms.
I remember being impressed with their intelligence and captivated by their...

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"Get out of the kitchen"! I hear Gramma say
"It will be ready when its ready"
"Dont touch that pie"! "Thats for Company"

Turkey, fresh bread and spices...

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"Get out of the kitchin"! 
I hear Gramma say
"It will be ready when it ready"
"Dont touch that pie"!
"Thats for Company"

Turkey, fresh bread and spices 
Fill...

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Although she was my grandmama,
We all called her Miss Ida.
Children and grandchildren alike did succumb
To this quaint, obscure, southern custom.

In the days of gold and...

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I miss
the scent of you
in sweet cinnamon light
and sunlight haloing your face;
lines revealing truths of your life story;
the stories whispered just for me,
the walks we...

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We have four grandchildren in our life and we love they came our way.
We remember when each was born…as if it was yesterday.

When they were...

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(If we only saw a field of flowers stretching out in a hundred rows
We may never truly appreciate the beauty of one rose.)

When I look...

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Here’s to the travellers,
   the passengers, the tourists
who trek this alien landscape
   in search of experience.

Here’s to the resilient,
  ...

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The Fourth Quarter

Here in the fourth quarter
When time seems to 
Press the pedal to the
Floor and years rush by
Like birds migrating south
In a rush to...

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How blessed we were back then and how-
   not knowing then what we know now,
our hearts stayed warm with love's first glow-
 ...

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I informed my neighbor the bad news…that her old oak tree was dying
The old woman nodded that she understood and then she started crying.

As I...

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Life moves so very fast…moments with our children and grandchildren do not last
We know it happens but we find it hard to understand…
Where did those...

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My health is back; I am almost normal
I had been in the bowels of depression
after eight weeks of shingles that took me out and shook...

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There stands my family’s horse-barn,
old logs, chinking, and rustic charm,
here out west it’s too dray to farm,
and mountain winds do small plants harm.

A ranch is...

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Paternal Grandfather Aaron Harris...

Lovely bones long since disintegrated
into dustbin of genealogical history,
if still alive would rank as oldest person
clocking another one incremental increase
asper in chronological...

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