Art Grandfather Poems

Ears

Earrings are just embellishments
Ear on my left and rights 
Earns the true credits
Easy to hear the chimps and deer'swith with them
Earth is open to me...

Read More

While on the topic 
of blood kith and kin,
I relate another 
fabricated poem about 
blimey bloke of a fisherman. 

Trawl tale of a fictitious seaman...

Read More

I imagine there are many things about my grandpa I have forgotten once he passed and my life continued on its way…but the memory of...

Read More

The house feels empty now 
Your legacy here, but the spirit is gone 
The ice cream we’d always share, I would always make fun of...

Read More

What's your name LeiNah what's your last name Williams who am I Papa
What's your name come here talk to me(sounds of high pitch screaming from...

Read More

A bible stand stood verily high -
these words won’t die.
Central pages of art.
Grandma’s Jesus would give me a heart.

1/7/2020
Clerihew Contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh...

Read More

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...

Read More

My maternal grandfather died when I was just seven!
Most certainly he is honored with special joy in heaven.
He left his art work at the Basilica...

Read More

Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II



All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch

for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

Grandfather,
now in your gray...

Read More

(alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck)

Ever since the advent of civilization
contrivances crafted to measure
days, weeks, months...
analytical “gifted” anonymous minds
wrought ever more sophisticated inventions
to divide existence...

Read More

I shall finish this letter to granddaddy tonight, 
I just cannot find the words that are right.
I wish to thank him for fighting in the...

Read More

I am not saying this just because
he is my grandson but
He is the most athletic person
in the family
and he is
four

I am not saying this just...

Read More

Things that make me breathless....
The musical prowess of an innocent twelve-year-old who
Has no idea, she is bringing tears to my eyes
A tribute written in honor...

Read More

"CASIO"


two months ago I bought myself
a watch.
it was a water resistant Casio.
it wasn't expensive, just your 
standard price of twenty dollars.
I put it on my...

Read More

Irony cries out in Boulet’s rendering.
Elderly Native American’s stern expression
seems captured beneath eagle’s wings.

Symbol of power and freedom,
mighty bald eagle was chosen by European ancestors...

Read More