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...I stare piteously at my grandkid-
kid jumping with aggressive joy
at each completed level of
a mindless game displayed
on the computer screen,
played by hitting a key
repeatedly, with hands...
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Categories:
grandkid, childhood, children, father,
Form: Free verse
I ASK MY GRANDSON
...I asked my grandson,
…what is my favorite thing to do,” after
he asked the round table.
“To play with me, of course.”
“Of course, I love playing with you…”
“and?”
and “praising God” - oh...
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Categories:
grandkid, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Still Be Missing You
...I've got a lot for us to discuss,
Now that life is steadily on course.
We could have shared ideas and opinions
But Allah had exercised His majestic dominions;
Like shingles falling upon the roof,...
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Categories:
grandkid, africa, father son, loss,
Form: Ballad
Chatgtp
...My dear ChatGTP
My dear ChatGTP
Welcome to our world
All the glory, All the fame
You may run faster than the fastest
But can you lose a winning battle for your beloved.
Can you sh...
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Categories:
grandkid, angel,
Form: Free verse
A Wrapper's Night Before Christmas
...(a rhyme revision in stanza 9 in case the sponsor already read this.)
'Twas the night before Christmas. My shopping was done.
But gifts needed wrapping, and THAT’S never fun!
Huge piles of gifts...
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Categories:
grandkid, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Calm Bomb
...We thought the morning would be calm ~
Till daughter deployed the grandkid bomb.
The youngest makes a Wookiee noise,
And other sounds enjoyed by boys.
Greta's playing the matching game;
The ...
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Categories:
grandkid, grandchild,
Form: Crystalline
My Granddaughter's Dating
...My granddaughter’s dating
her phone call I’m not awaiting
For she is nearly as foolish as me
assuming grandpa never knew a thing or three
about love, marriage and sexuality
Once you’ve...
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Categories:
grandkid, granddaughter, grandfather, irony, romance,
Form: Couplet
Waking Up With Ilene
...Every morning, before my caffeine
I enjoy waking up with Ilene.
No, it's not what you think -
I wake up with her INK;
The fun thoughts of her daily routine!
She writes poems day out and day i...
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Categories:
grandkid, morning, poetess,
Form: Limerick
Granddad In Heaven
...You left before you could meet them
"I want to live to see my grandkids" you’d say
Unfortunately you never got the chance
So let me introduce them to you today
There are three of them
Ages one...
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Categories:
grandkid, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
No Magic Here
...“Grandpa when are you ‘gunna’ turn into a frog?”
Me grandson said as I brushed him away;
‘Turn into a frog! That flamin’ kid’s on the grog!’
“Go on! You get outside and play!”
Then I went to ...
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Categories:
grandkid, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Playing Potsy
...Some sidewalk chalk, a pebble
And a grandkid who would play
Set the stage to bring me back
To many years ago today.
I drew the board, explained the rules
And as we hopped the squares,
A wa...
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Categories:
grandkid, games,
Form: Rhyme
Sunday Drive
...Never thought I'd arrive
at the age of the Sunday Drive
Grandma did it
when I was a kid it
probably kept her alive
I was the driver on one of her last
needless to say, going too fast.
I touc...
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Categories:
grandkid, grandmother, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Limerick
Mal
...One year I got a shirt with my initials on the pocket,
My grandma wanted me to have it instead of a Saturn rocket.
Even though what I really wanted was the model of the Apollo ship,
My dad h...
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Categories:
grandkid, funny, holiday, me, me,
Form: Light Verse
No Lemurs At the Zoo (Thank You Walt Disney)
...A short while back when Shayla was three, Written just for Barbara's Contest.
I took my granchild's child to the Zoo with me.
She sat in he stroller as we pushed her around,
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Categories:
grandkid, childhoodchild, child,
Form: Couplet
Grandkins
...grandma..
years now glisten there,
silvery streak in her hair,
truest, gentlest care..
grandpa..
to walk with grampop
is to hear the paved road laugh
at its unpaved half..
grandkid.....
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Categories:
grandkid, family
Form: Tail-rhyme
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