Lyric Granddaughter Poems

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For my adopted grandmother Nancy Enloe

I met you at a friend’s house,
standing stately on your cane,
tall and rosy-cheeked like me.
In your smile, I...

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I remember when,
 I was young;
I used to hang out in the kitchen;
wit Grandma

And on every Saturday afternoon
She would always make homemade pastries
And on the...

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Light footed faeries in subtle tans accompany Suzette.
Subtly playing Mozart-like melodies on their flutes.
Two playing cards, on the rim of her bonnet, giggling.

Blue butterflies with...

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Something about you Lord 
I just do I owe you 
ever so true I -
I adore.you
 you have installed in me
You have offered me
You've...

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No better gift have I from heaven
than a grandchild, now turn'd seven.
of east and west a wondrous blend
she took the best that these could lend:
from...

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My grandma told your grandma
Don't you set your head on fire
Come with me to the Casbah
Stay out of the funeral pyre
Talkin' 'bout shotguns, shotguns,
Blasting us...

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THE HANDS ARE GONE, 

THAT CRADLED ME, 

TURNED THE COVERS ON MY BED, 

HANDS THAT HELPED ME BOW MY HEAD, 

KNEADED A SUPPER OF MILK...

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Summer Time
and in the spring
the children sprout
growing up until they old
reminiscing on the past
(Summer Time)...
 So innocent and young
growing old and wise
telling true stories
to the...

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Light emerged from a place not so far
A scene displayed beneath its roof’s tar…



“The sun entered through the window sill
Brightening the room as it filled...

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