Cat Granddaughter Poems

slits in the blinds
of a guestroom
leaking morning through
skinny orange white cat
follows an old man in his underwear
down the hall to the bathroom 
and back to...

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LOL. My daughter wants to go to Milwaukee to see a cat.
This is part of a group text from my own daughter.
Her daughter is seventeen...

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My middle daughter texts a casual comment on a group text.
Molly wants to go to Milwaukee to see an antique store.
Store apparently has a live...

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Warm cuddle curled
Up next to me
Cardinal killer
Jasmine
Your human was six
When she asked
For a Calico
Next day 
A white black and gold ball of love
Joined our family
Full...

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Mary Berry, very scary
When she drives that 'cat.
Anything but ordinary
In her smashing hat.

Giggles as she hits the gas;
It's fun to be alive!
She will skip your...

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When Grandma died I inherited things, 
jewelry, dishes, furniture and a doll;
I loved all 'cause I am a person who clings,
the best was her...

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Awesome Kid Grandma
It’s what my granddaughter calls me
When she writes of my deeds

She thinks I have super powers
The children at school ask me to
“Not tell...

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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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And Grandpa, you have to wear a tux, my little grand-princess said.
I thought she was crazy, daft in the head.
I was miffed, corn-waggled, flabbergasted at...

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grandma never knew her name until she was an adult
and it was Helena (some kind of birth certificate mix up) 
she embraced her new found...

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grandma never knew her name until she was an adult
and it was Helena (some kind of birth certificate mix up) 
she embraced her new found...

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"Crispy, crumbly, chocolate Christmas cookies cooling . . . "

I am going to turn back the pages of time,
to when my Grandma made cookies...

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I go to visit my kindly grannie,
And I am met by her golden orange cat;
With a kink in his whisker and a tummy fat,
The door...

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I wake to the sounds of laughter and lively music (jazz, I think) flowing free from the empty tenement down the hall. The smooth harmonies...

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A Man Stood Part II  Story/poem

A man was standing by his window on a cold winter day.
He was thinking about his past, when a...

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