Birthday Grandchild Poems

from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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Baby GG is in the house
Born in beautiful month of March
Between winter and spring
No snow was on the dry grass
Gorgeous buds were emerging
And a new...

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Dean's First Birthday
By Franklin Price
02/15/2023

Today is Dean's first birthday
He just got here a year ago
The son of Bell and Dalton
To carry on the Perry show

For...

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Today I was in full grandma-little girl- age eight mode.
I adjust my age to match the grandchild who is visiting.
Today it was Max who will...

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Leilani Rose

Aquarius
Nearly born on my birthday
Loves to smile
And make people laugh

We weren't expecting you

Opened a card from your Mamma
On Father's Day
While I was golfing in...

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skilled you are your smile makes subtle demands
a potent weapon are those soft brown eyes
you arrived with your birthday threads in hand
that laughter such a...

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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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Today is your birthday,
Another year older and wiser.

Blessed to be celebrating with your sister and parents,
Friends come by to wish you a Happy Birthday.

Your love...

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Who was to know
how this year was to go
a virus came to town
closing everything down.

Your birthday came at this time
six feet apart draw the ...

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Mental Health
aka Crazy

The very topic is inclusive of the word, 
that haunts our every step from birth;
until our last breath. 

Fear has no power except...

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Drawn on Paper

The small house, mostly quiet.
No one up. 
No one to notice anything. 
Things just happened.
Magic.

Lights sparkled…
from no where.
The soft sound,
of angel wings,
busy.
 
The...

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Butterfly, My Love

You have hair like golden silk. 
You laugh like clear water running over stones. 
Your eyes, they are the color of the sky,...

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Grandpa

Father of the age, know'er of everything, 
I need to know before the age of six… 
Including all about God. (and teaching me to pray)

Thank...

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Grandma

My hands hesitate here… hovering over the keyboard…
Numb, hard to make do as I ask…
This should be happy, 
but I am…
crying.

I miss her. 

She smoked...

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As I sit here with our grandson 

and gaze upon your headstone, hon, 

I lay a bouquet of white and pink roses

for your birthday, now...

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