Grandfather Family Poems

Heirloom events are often solemn occasions
Weddings, high school or college graduations
Grandfathers take sons or grandsons aside
To bequeath his pocket watch with pride

Slowly he'll raise the...

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An early rise before the sunrise, brief 
prayer relief to fill a slow cooker with corn beef, 
carrots, potatoes and cabbage. 
Proud of myself I...

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Excitement oozes

Out of my soul and Grand- heart

Grandchildren are here...

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She was eight, her brother was ten, and I was only 59. That year, 2009, we were together all the time. I taxied them both...

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Local fame in the family name,
knowledge attained because it entertains.
It seems everyone knows about our pain,
gossip that ponders who's to blame.

They say they care but...

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As I entered the forest 
My feet gained an uncanny rhythm
Crunching below the surface of a hundred years
The snow intermittently tracing the way

It was a...

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Nothing will ever be the same, 
 without you here,
 trying our best to remain,
 happy and full of cheer,
 its the season of love,...

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Some people wait and write a eulogy
but if you're dead you can't hear or read,
so I want to tell you just what you mean to...

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One Day In Spring

Flowers falling to the ground from trees of Green all in a row
Smiling faces, happy sounds, School is over for another day
Where...

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Grandpa's going to rake the lawn and gather up the leaves.
Can you come too? Why sure you can, but not in those short sleeves!

It's cold...

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I remember angles
lots of angles
shoulders, elbows, jaw
and Old Spice.
I remember a voice like gravel
angular, uneven, an instantly soothing
like water spilling over rocks.
I remember a well...

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In breaths of morning dawn the generations before would drift through my mind. A legacy of gold and silver in depths of the dawning rise...

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Brave Samurai Knight
your Warlord, Itso, waits you.
Your ancestors cry
out for revenge against Mau.
Defend your family's
honor for all weep at what
Mau has done to our
land making...

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My parents were born in the USA as was I,
but about my heritage I have never been shy.
My grandfather came from a distant land,
one I've...

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A tale I now tell of the history,
the unraveling of ancestral mystery.
It happened it seems, by chance,
and this was the circumstance.
My sister was having a...

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I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a...

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Italy to where my great grandfather was born
Sailing to America with his family in tow
To go there is something I've always sworn
To the very land...

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Memories, someone asked?
Here’s one. Let me pull it out from the past,
Let me set it next to the grandfather clock in the parlor,
That used to...

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Take a journey back with me
To a time not long ago
When families met for Sunday brunch
To Grandma's house we'd go

We sat down at the table
Sharing...

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Grandma told it well.
Some missionaries
Visited her dad –
He was one deacon.
Everyone listened.

He let them teach.
All about God
And the iron rod
Deacons complained

Threatened him
Their mob came
Red -hot...

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