Family 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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The swing stands still
The seat is broken
Like my heart
With words unspoken

When other children come to play
I feel like saying "go away"
This swing belongs to a...

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Chit chattering so happily, in babyish first conversations,
Like treetop little birdies, sharing emerald observations,
Burbling giddily and gaily, as golden moments evanesce,
Tattling like garden beauty secrets,...

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The Head's
A narrative poem
Lionel Derbyshire

My grandpa like the mountain
I strive to scribe.

Around a Indian ocean
Of her flat mountain
Twains a head and peak
Of lion and devil
Left...

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Friday afternoon year 
April 2032 the weather was 
Just right. Damian sought to
Purchase a barrage of a 13
Bicycle collection. It would be
A surprise for his...

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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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When your dreams tell you some one you love is in need
It is a time for you to help not be filled with greed
Nor to...

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New Shoes

"Grandpa, my shoes are too small, 
or maybe my feet or too big?"

"You are going to be ten foot tall, 
if you don't stop...

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From the ancestors
Generations to generations
Lives carry on like new sprouts 
And flourishing like a jungle
Newborns are our hope
Nowadays newborns are totally different
Imbedded in an aircond...

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Inviting yourself to your daughter’s for dinner:
One of those things you can declare a winner.
We take the meal; we’ve got plenty to share,
And all of...

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Popping out of pictures, pulling swords from stone,
Hunting with your coon dogs, shipwrecked all alone,
Rafting down the river, whitewashing a fence,
Balloons on Krakatoa, leagues under...

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Great Grandmother Barb
By Franklin Price
02/16/2022

Family meant everything
To you, when you were here.
There came another yesterday
You're a Great Grandmother, dear

All is fine with mom and baby
They...

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Home sweet home on Christmas day.
Children and grandchildren
come, but not to stay

Home smells of pumpkin spice,
gingerbread cookies,
ham and turkey in the oven
Yeast rolls rising,
flickering cinnamon...

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“Brettley Bear”

Brettley came, but not without a fight.
Brettley came showing us his great might.
Slowly arriving, I’ll come on my own time,
Don’t worry, don’ fret I’m...

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