Grandchildren Family Poems

When our children are born we await all their milestones keeping an eye on their developmental clock
We don’t want to miss the first time they...

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And so it begins
 the endless montage of words amid hugs and kisses,
  struggling to express untethered euphoric blisses,
   the joy, the...

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Happy Birthday Grandma, we are celebrating another year
You may not know it’s your birthday, but we do and we cheer
We get to spend some more...

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Our life book is loaded up with lots of love.
A sentence here, a paragraph there; even a chapter pair;
Hearing wedding bells, sharing honeymoon embraces, alone...

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Writer
Of positive words, a lover of spirituality, teaching,  and art.
I have three sons, two daughter in-laws, and six grandchildren that live close.  
I...

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Blending families is never easy…sometimes it may feel strange
as the people, places, the customs…the traditions around us change.

We knew when we brought our families together...

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There once was a time when women could cook,
  and men knew how to dance

Education was by the book,
  no fuzzy math or...

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After the war in Norway
May 8, 1945
Many lost and great poverty,
the whole country looked like battlefield
My grandfather's father
left wife and children
And traveled to America

Find happiness...

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They say grandchildren are the future to see
Watching them grow has been special to me
We laughed with the good and cried at the bad,
But felt...

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If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something  captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing and...

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     Grandfather's rose bushes


My grandfather loved his roses. He would care for them and ensure they survived the Winter. He was...

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CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS

We were childhood sweethearts sowing dreams of growing old together.  Little did we know in those early days  ---  days of...

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To bring our family closer together we went
For a walk in the myriad shades of green 
Forest on a long light brown rough hew log
Pathway...

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Joe

Generous, Loving, Impeccable sense of humor, soft-hearted

Husband of mine.

Lover of Math, Charts, Computers, Games of Chance

Who feels empathy, joy, and passion

Who needs his family, his...

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Excitement oozes

Out of my soul and Grand- heart

Grandchildren are here...

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In the 40's I was black, not even shiny.
And so were my mother, father, and cousins.
In the 60's I came out in all kinds of...

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What is our highest good
as parents,
grandparents,
children of WiseElder mentors,
mountains and valleys,
sun and moon,
planets and plants,
clouds and rivers,
trees and toads,
eagles and dragonflies,
and occasionally parents.

How do we...

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Don’t cry over my vessel
For it no longer holds me
It was time for it to return to the Dust of the Earth

You’re not suppose to...

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The Holy Bible tells us, that our time spent here on Earth,
Is roughly three score years and ten, counted from our birth.
Now I’ve just made...

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Off to grandmother’s cottage we go,
past snow covered pines all in a row,
to a cozy home with old fashion charm,
standing beside it the red painted...

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