Name Grandchild Poems

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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Who’s the lady in the picture Papa Keanu?

“Her name is Pele, Mililani.  The fire goddess of Hawaii.”  

“My middle name, Aiden means (little...

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Study what God has made known;
ponder His Word, our mainstay.
Ready in your exchange zone
pass the baton, be alert and pray. 

Plan for success in life’s...

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Monchielle Dardanelle,
I love to say that name;
it still rolls off the tongue.
Are you now feeling old,
or youthful, full of fun?

Monchielle Dardanelle,
it’s been so very long.
We’ve...

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Ever heard of the beautiful Ohio?
The writer in me wants you to know -
River life has its anecdotes
My granny, a German immigrant,
mastered that river in...

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To have my name in a literature book
Or read aloud at a poetry convention,
Is not why I write these little verses
Has never been my desired...

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Two kids, two grands and four balloons,
The older kid in charge,
Morphed into a balloon class
With the merriment writ large.

Instructions varied: “Use your wrists”
Or “Alternate your...

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This is very close to a true story...


My wife and I were sitting in a real old high school gym, halfway up the bleachers, at...

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Poems about Children IV

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch

Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

I remember how my grandfather used to pick...

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inside the womb hear words of love ~ to hold you touch you darling grandchild

Written 5th October 2020


Contest Name  How My First Poem Was...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his...

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Sunset
by Michael R. Burch
								
This poem is dedicated to my grandfather, George Edwin Hurt, who died April 4, 1998.

Between the prophecies of morning
and twilight’s revelations of...

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So small, yet so big
born during a rough time
of pain and sorrow.

Oh what joy he brings
on that cold November day.

With his little hands already
conformed to...

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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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For CHarles Hall. Born 15.9.2017.

By just turning up
you've bought such joy,
My Grandson Charles
my beautiful boy,
The spark you bring
brightens the flame,
With humble pride
you carry my name.

In...

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