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Happy Birthday Grammy

Toddlers played with the birthday balloons
Elders smiled at their generations
Parents of parents of parents reveled
In this celebration of family.
The gifts sat at the tables
Re-telling old tales
Re-kindling laughter’s lilt
The cake was chocolate

John G. Lawless
©3/16/2023

Categories: grammy, birthday,
Form: Free verse

Grammy Number One

Shout out to my depression
My best friend 
It takes courage to live
But we take living for granted 
Until a pandemic comes along and puts everyone in a panic
Translation we come back down to earth
The place where we live but often act like it's not where we're from 
Many people walk around with more what ifs

Categories: grammy, depression, encouraging, metaphor, poems,
Form: Free verse

Grammy

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it"

Categories: grammy, age, emotions, family, feelings,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Grammy

Grammy


I’ve been waiting a long time for this day 
     to come,
The day you told me your gonna be a mom...
I was so happy as can be,
I was about to wonder,
‘Cause me friends had 2 or 3!
When you told me it’s gonna be a boy,
My heart was filled with joy...
Then the

Categories: grammy, birth, family, grandchild, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Grammy and the Werewolf

Out on a Montana prairie my  wee Grammy
had built a little white house with a picket fence.
Civilization hadn’t crawled out that far yet,
so nights were warm and dark was dense.

By the melted-butter flames of kerosene lamps
we would sit on the porch and quietly speak.
Always I asked for stories about London town,
where Grammy went from

Categories: grammy, animal, imagination, writing,
Form: Blank verse

Grammy

A shadow
Passed
Then it was
Gone

But wait
It's here

Was it
The eclipse
A passing
Of the moon?

It brought forth
Memories
To soon
Still borne

Yet
The presence
Of one long 
Past

A shadow
O'er those
Who felt
The presence

Of her
Who
On us
Cast

A playful 
Image
Light
When 
Darkness
Fell

Always
In our
Path
Leading onward

N'er looking 
Back

Look 
Close your eyes
In the shadows
There.

Louise H. Dameron

Categories: grammy, family, woman,
Form: Elegy

My Grammy

My grandmother,  where do I start.  
My mind had been numb, not wanting to accept my truth...
My grammy is gone what am I to do?

Stuck, stuck, stuck acting like life goes on,  focusing on being a mom.
But in my office at work during those quiet days.  Thoughts of you blow mind

Categories: grammy, death, grandmother,
Form: Free verse

Ye Ole Grammy Phone

Crank up ye ole grammy phone
Play me some of those good old tunes
Like “Happy Days Are Here Again!”
“By The Light Of The Silvery Moon”

Remember ditties from way back when
You could actually decipher the words
Hope young people aren't reading this
They'll be thinking I'm quite a nerd

Songs from the World War Two years
Billy Holiday's “My Old Flame”
Or

Categories: grammy, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Quatrain

Grammy Sail Away With Me....

islands n the stream.
o what a dream.

with my gram just us two.
nothin to do.
i look up to the sky n see blue.

we can ride it together.
good n bad times whenever.
grammy u raised ME i'm clever.

sail away with me to another world n we rely on eachother.
i'll never love again like i loved YOU never.

Categories: grammy, lost loveme,
Form: Ode