Grandmother Free Verse Poems
These Grandmother Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Grandmother. These are the best examples of Free Verse Grandmother poems written by international poets.
The Cry from AustraliaI am the voice
Of the first breath upon this land.
I am Aboriginal —
And I have wept since 1788.
When they came,
With boots that crushed our soil,
And...
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anger, culture, depression, holocaust,
Heartbroken Again and Again~~~ Heartbreaks can give us inner strength
in developing courage, self-growth, self-awareness
and empathy or can break us physically
...
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Categories:
heartbreak, heartbroken, life,
GlassfootGlass-foot by Gabrielle Munslow
She kneels on glass.
Two jagged rocks, hidden—clenched behind her back.
Secrets.
Her mouth open,
not in benediction
but for unholy things.
He looks down—unkind.
She rises,
smashes...
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Categories:
betrayal, destiny, history, humanity,
nihonshu - sakeMy master’s degree's a senior’s cruise - most of the other students are thirty and even forty-somethings. Good for them, for making the (75K) investment,...
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Categories:
fun, humor, school, stress,
Four Transcendental GrandmothersI had just got my hands
on the new ‘Sergeant Pepper’ album.
The four girls that lived above my pad
were notified by jungle drums.
Soon we were six,...
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Categories:
poetry,
The Architect of MorningWhat if dawn hesitates at my window,
afraid to wake the refugee's dreams?
I teach my shadow to walk ahead—
it knows the Damascus streets I've never seen.
My...
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Categories:
cute love,
Go Home, HaleyGo Home, Haley
If you could see what I see—
A soul that’s wild, but meant to be
So much more than smoke and flight,
You’d turn your face...
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addiction, beautiful, beauty, care,
never just humanit did not knock.
it poured through the cracks—
in dreams,
in fever,
in the silence between my inhale
and forgetting.
i didn’t summon it.
didn’t pray.
didn’t kneel beside any sacred thing.
but...
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Categories:
12th grade,
What you don't know won't hurt you~that she saw her mother as a child lying strewn on the kitchen floor black and blue~
~that the taste does not matter only that it...
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abuse, appreciation, class, dedication,
Woman In My Dream
This is one of my very early poems, but I have decided to edit and re-post it.
My dream was to be a Jane Austen,
Or...
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inspirational, women,
why am I heresoothsayer stopped and said “someone died here”
we know, I said.
My husband nodded.
You can sense spirit, she stated.
I offered her a chair, and she sat.
Your grandfather...
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Categories:
humor,
To the Strongest Woman I've Ever KnownTo the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
The brightest light in every
Room, Church,
Hall and building
That she
Ever entered.
To the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
You never knew
How...
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Categories:
anxiety, grandmother, grief, growing
Those We LoveThose we love don't go away
They walk beside us everyday
And, I wish you knew her
When You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown was running
I wish...
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emotions, grandmother, grief, hurt,
WONDER WOMAN GRANDMAJustice alert
An Old Lady with strong Faith
Knows how to carry to great length
Didn’t have to spin to turn into Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman Grandma carried every...
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Categories:
anti bullying, care, character,
THE EMBERS OF MY MEMORYMy heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery.
The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their...
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Categories:
12th grade,