Grandfather Family Poems
These Grandfather Family poems are examples of Family poems about Grandfather. These are the best examples of Family Grandfather poems written by international poets.
Holbert
by Jimmy Coker
Holbert
Brogans and overalls by Lee;
Making cotton baskets ‘neath a white oak tree.
A grandfather I never really knew
that smoked Prince Albert; it was tried...
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Categories:
america, beautiful, character, family,
RIP Grandmother
by Matt Forshay
She looks so frail and fragile.
Really she’s barely alive.
Ninety six years old and she still gives death a battle.
It makes me admire her never ending...
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Free verse
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Categories:
anxiety, death, deep, family,
Something New
by Wendy M
If I knew that going to my aunt's place
Would end up with me on a wild goose chase
On a hunt for that prized necklace
She...
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Categories:
cheer up, family, humor,
Devin's First Deer, Part II
by David Welch
...A gentle squeeze back on the trigger
and the slug shot straight out for its target,
the buck jerked hard, then he bolted away,
for a second Devin...
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Narrative
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adventure, autumn, family, farm,
Devin's First Deer, Part I
by David Welch
Devin crunched slowly through the frosted grass
as he made his way down his grandpa’s field,
it was the morning after Thanksgiving
with a chill that was bracing...
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Narrative
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adventure, autumn, family, farm,
NEVER FAR FROM HOME
by Vickie Thayer
You Shall Find...
My Spirit...
Flying On...
The Wings Of...
A Beautiful Dove...
It Has Found Me...
In This Life...
Many Times...
I Shall...
Ride With Him...
Alone...
But Loved...
My Spirit...
Climbs With Him...
Towards The Heavens...
Beyond...
Earth's Clouds...
Moon...
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Blank verse
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Categories:
death, family, goodbye, grandfather,
- Family Search -
by Sunshine Smile
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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Free verse
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Categories:
america, family, war,
Immigration
by Rico Leffanta
Immigration history
Reveals a USA flaw:
Trump's grandfather and mother
Were 1-step ahead of the law.
Lacking moral character
They plundered all they could
Baby Donny quickly learned
Bilking government is good
Trump's...
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Categories:
betrayal, corruption, culture, family,
My grandfather's rose bush
by John Castellenas
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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Prose Poetry
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Categories:
england, family, grandfather, tribute,
Heirlooms
by Susan Gentry
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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family, father son, grandfather,
Easter 2018
by Eve Roper
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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Categories:
easter, family,
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Haiku
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Categories:
family, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather,
Grandpa's Kids
by curtis johnson
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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children, family, grandfather,
The Forest
by Rebecca Frank
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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Narrative
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Categories:
appreciation, deep, devotion, family,
Wishing you were here
by Blic Echols
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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Rhyme
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Categories:
absence, emotions, family, goodbye,
One Day In Spring
by Rana Hiha
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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I do not know?
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family, flower, grandfather, november,
Snapshots
by roseann geiger
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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Free verse
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Categories:
family, grandfather, imagery, life,
A Songbird Climbs
by Rick Parise
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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Haibun
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family, farm, grandfather, love,
Samurai Knight - A Japanese Choka
by Alfred Berggren
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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Choka
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Categories:
family,
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
by Dan Cwiak
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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Categories:
appreciation, family, identity, love,