Dog Granddaughter Poems

How elfin her beauty, sweet innocence on the face
of my grandchild who always runs into my embrace.
For a week while I visited, at the first...

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terrible two
is a ninja turtle
she spins her 
little play broom 
like a fighting stick 
and charges 

grandpa shark
faints and dodges
she reels back
gives him a whack
and...

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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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Moving to Lake Shore sites was definitely cool
Our home was so large and faced the water
Cameron fixed up an old boat
We held hands on the...

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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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Poems about Children II



On Looking into Curious George’s Mirrors
by Michael R. Burch

for Maya McManmon, granddaughter of the poet Jim McManmon

Maya was made in the image...

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Bird songs drift through the tall trees and
    photographs are floating in my mind and 
      ...

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No exception, we grab a cart
A slice of this geography  
A part of this society. Among the lines of people shopping,
talking, grazing, cell phones...

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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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Sweet & Innocent

You look so innocent
Sweet and charming as can be
Yet, your eyes show the truth
Your face shows the real you
I know you are planning...

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Old Dogs and Children**

Woke up
always a plus.
Took care of business.
Found my teeth -
a must.
Brushed them…..off.
Made coffee
meditated on its scent
and promise.
Met the dog at the door
(no...

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Sometimes just a trim; others, a drastic clip;
around-the-world trip with one mighty snip.
	
Children and scissors together, tempt fate;
by the time you check, it's already too...

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As a child I wanted to be a pilot and writer I wasn’t interested in much else.
I became a Marine at 17 a husband at...

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~~Upon the banks of big piney slough,
   I recall a picnic with old blue,
   and my granddaughter at age two.
 ...

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My granddaughter Charlotte e-mailed: 
"I love you, Nanny, and can I have a poem about princesses?"



Away in some enchanted land
Where every day was Spring,
There lived...

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