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Granda Poems - Poems about Granda


Premium Member The Night Before Christmas
...T’was the night before Christmas, When we all joined a Christmas Vigil Mass; We're caught way back home by a traffic jam, We starved and stopped at a nearby store for a ham. Ham was eve......

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Categories: granda, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Granna's Picture Books
...Seem so simple, trivial, these books but aren't. Firstly, humans are picture people. Always been so. Young minds forming memory, cognition. Before kids can read, they can conceive images. Just no......

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Categories: granda, books, child, feelings, grandparents,
Form: Free verse



Five Papayas and a Basket
...Five papayas and a basket Are brought by Granda Mel; The sweet fruits are given To her five friends very well. The first fruit is handed to Raquel, A good poetess from Lebanon; Her heart i......

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Categories: granda, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Granda
...When the storm clouds gather and the thunder rolls, when the chips are down and the blood runs cold, I hear the click of the walking stick and I know I'm not alone. Your life with us was ......

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Categories: granda, farewell, father son, fathers
Form: Elegy
Granda's Wartime Tales
...When I was a little girl My grandfather had a tin With a sailor smoking a cigarette on the lid It was what he kept his medals in He called them Pip, Squeak and Wilfred And I asked him what the......

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Categories: granda, grandfather, nostalgia, war,
Form: Rhyme



The Cupboard Under the Stairs
...If the cupboard under the stairs could talk I wonder what it would say Would it tell me of those who hid in it When there was rent to pay What about the poor frightened child Back in nineteen ......

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Categories: granda, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Grandma's Pets
...Grandma's Pets My granda went away to sea For many months on end He'd travel on a fishing boat With his brother and a friend He used to write home regularly And tell some quite tall tales ......

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Categories: granda, grandparents, pets, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What It's Worth
...They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but let me tell you what a word is worth Worth it all All of you Eulogies of bygone days Teleported feelings from here To there Here......

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Categories: granda, allusion, bereavement, deep, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Grandma
...DEAR GRANDMA, IT'S YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER, YOU NEVER MET ME. OVER THE YEARS I PICTURE YOUR FACE IN MY MIND. I IMAGINE YOU HOLDING ME IN YOUR ROCKING CHAIR, SINGING A LULIBY SONG TO ME. WITH YOUR SILVER......

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Categories: granda, absence, care, family, father,
Form: Bio
Premium Member My Bicycle
...Once I had a bicycle, A loving present from my grandfather; Since I was his favorite granddaughter, He granted my wish at a snap of my finger . Since he was so old, A new bicycle he could hard......

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Categories: granda, childhood, father, i love
Form: Narrative
My Granda Ned
...My Granda Ned he was the best he always made us grandkids laugh at all his jokes he always made us look at the window at things that werent there he used to pull his ear n say "ear " making us ......

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Categories: granda, death, family, loss,
Form: I do not know?
Cancer Killed My Granda
...Cancer killed my grandad, What had he done to deserve that? I may have only been one when he died but now im nearly 16 and every day i miss him more and more. I wish it was my dad and not h......

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Categories: granda, death, family, loss, cancer,
Form: I do not know?
Dear Granda
...1st June 2004 Hey granda what you doing up there? I wish i could talk to you with out people thinking i'm speaking to a stone. I didn't ask you to go, I was only one but i miss you so much. ......

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Categories: granda, family, loss, miss you,
Form: I do not know?

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