Women Granddaughter Poems

How the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter 
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm 
day i was suffering from traumatic...

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The women in my family
Clean baby butts, scrubb toilets
Work, go to school, cook dinner
And study for final exams while everyone sleeps

Daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers...

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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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OH to be 21


Your 21st has finally come,

And now your journey has begun,

To say I’m proud is simply not enough,

Of the incredibly intelligent, independent,

Wonderful, wise...

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Cartoonist since age four; gave it up at twelve
After spending nine months in the clutches
of the meanest art teacher alive or dead
Did not take it...

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We are two women, foot-loose and fanci-less-free,
My fourteen-year-old granddaughter and me.
Her mother started saying “don’t get too crazy,”
So I waved my credit cards at her...

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MY GRANDMA DEEMMA

    My Grandma, whom I called Deemma
    bathed me in showers of limitless love and blessings.
 ...

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With Dolphins, she swam!  A glorious day,
for granddaughter, so many years ago.
I watched two gentle beings interplay,
each, nose to nose and eye to eye-...

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So your great gran
was a suffragette
She fought for the right for women to vote
She thought that would make a woman equal,
put them on the same...

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’Twas the night before Christmas and Santa was checking, 
That his daughter was ready, the reindeers confessing, 
That she’d left her partner for the few...

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Blind are you, are you not?
Blind are you, not to see
Blind are you who never halt
For only you the blurry be

Blind are you to never...

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Childhood Friends.-----Girl

Tea parties with a Teddy Bear
pretty dresses Sunday morn.
Grandpa said each time at church
it's the prettiest one I've worn.

Slumber party not so hardy
made of...

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She measured only five foot tall,
With her stooped shoulders, even shorter.
Towered over by her strapping son,
My mother and each other daughter.
Grandma came from sturdy stock....

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I am a daughter
A sister
A granddaughter 
A niece 
A cousin 
A friend 
A student 
A young girl
And a grown women 

I am a giver and...

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