Grandfather Girl Poems

Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We...

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As a child, 
I loved to watch Grandpa build. 
His basement workshop, 
was filled with tools. 
Tools hanging on every wall, 
wood neatly stacked in...

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I remember when Grandpa used me everyday,                  ...

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Hoping for attention, it’s a game she played
Resented by her grandfather, all he knew was shame
She was lonely, broken, and bruised -
Comparable to rotten fruit;
She...

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A boy with a toy, a girl with a curl
  each more precious than a necklace of pearls
Birthday boy's face all covered with cake
...

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Jasper wanted an old-fashioned girl who liked to cook and clean.
No one likes to clean, dust or vacuum said Jasper’s sister Jean.
Grandma cleans daily, Jasper...

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Granddads Little Girl

This first day of the New Year, 
May I whisper something in your ear
To wish you a very bright life,   
As...

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Grandfathered In 
David J Walker

And now when a 

pretty girl smiles
in her summer clothes 
that invite the summer sun in

On some sunny August afternoons 
Walk...

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At one-hundred grandpa dreams of a fling
Scoring the streets for a saucy young thing
   He's mastered a line
   That works every...

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Day pulses within budding blue eyes.
She lays solo in the rickety bed -
a hand-me-down from a cousin removed.
Dust bunnies swirl and dance overhead
in the early...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Happy enchanting you-- little pearl
She's Grandpa girl 
Captivating girl 
So fascinating 
O'boy-O-joy
however enthralling
Always and forever Grandpa's little darling 

5/25/20
Written words by James Edward Lee...

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To a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh,...

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LITTLE GIRL LOST
I

As my fingers trace your silhouette
Your lips will feel my kiss
The shoulders that have held me up
I will never have to miss

The strength...

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Short fun haiku 

God didn`t like snakes 
 So he told lies about me
Man loath and fears me  

I`m a crippled tree
In the middle...

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