Grandfather Poems | Examples of Grandfather Poetry

The grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate. A real cheapskate. One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book. Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.” It was written for a 7 year old child, and I was...Read the rest...

grandpa is the best story teller we like it when he goes off book I cannot quit yawning But I want to miss nothing because his tales are that good...Read the rest...

The auld fella’s auld fella left the tech after Ripening for sixteen summers. Camden-Wagon-Gravity landed a shovel and a pick at his lonely boots. ‘DIG’. he knew that Language. and by God did he dig. there is a dignity in breaking...Read the rest...

Children's Poems VII These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. Sailing to My Grandfather, for George Hurt by Michael R. Burch This distance between us —this vast sea of...Read the rest...

I am not the nightlight, nor am I the monster under my bed that my father would tell me to fear. I never feared the unknown, just reality. Daunting, inexplicable reality. Reality was the shadow...Read the rest...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ German descendant I am ties bind me to 'Deutschland' ethereal threads...Read the rest...

They carried on in secret, pretending not to care, then organised the wedding, not one of the family were there, mum cried in the kitchen, the news was hard to bear, dad had lost his temper, his choice words hung in the...Read the rest...

Sleep now and dream my preconscious sweet little one For the gifted life and future is yours To grow with vigour and splendidly blossom Under the ripening life giving sun For the summer of my youth had bloomed...Read the rest...

I wonder if flowers feel themselves slowly dying Bathing in the bright, A rosy lemon violet smile, How soon shall that wither and fall? A blown Watercolour world, Standing tall and striking, How can the world be anything but sweet...Read the rest...

My granddaughter is the cutest girl in Texas. Maybe even in the whole southeast of the USA. She was the most boastful grandma we met that day. And we are all grandmas, with our hair of gray. If I...Read the rest...

Growing up…as her family celebrated her birthday…it did not matter where… She always noticed her grandpa seemed to be the happiest person there. On her birthday he would dance and sing…his voice would fill the space… He would...Read the rest...

A lump in the throat a tear in the eye Grandpa's name writ large in the sky...Read the rest...

How does it feel? It's hard to tell Sad when I pause Taking moments to dwell It's the pearl that is lost It's the half-empty shell It's the un-told story It's the water-less well How does it feel? Deep emotion stirs Where the long...Read the rest...

When I go to Heaven someday; my love's spirit shall lead the way. I want to meet my grandfather in a valley of pink lilies. I shall embrace my cousin in fields of tiger lilies....Read the rest...

To my Grandchildren, those great and beyond, whom I will never meet Know that I love you and have seen you in the eyes of your parents when they were very small ...Read the rest...