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Grandkids Poems - Poems about Grandkids

Grandkids Poems - Examples of all types of poems about grandkids to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for grandkids.
Premium Member grandpas new toy
...grandpa was excited about his new toy he brought us to his den, he was bursting with joy what is it? We asked him, for none of us knew he laughed until he was crying, but he was not blue do you......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member SIT-UPONS
...Sit-upons that we wove together. The troop activity. How many spots will remember me? The wicker basket and picnic blanket woven into the amphitheatre. We, my hubby and I, cozied up, listened......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Getting Older
...There's more rust in my joints than ever. My bones sound like an old screen door, and my knees predict the weather better than any app. Give me elastic waistbands, soft slippers, and the creak o......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, age, old,
Form: Free verse
The Bucket List Blues
...When my doctor calls me in, says I’ve got complications, let’s not blow our savings, on round the world vacations, my pre-paid funeral, is all that I want planned, I’ll refuse a fancy cruise, tha......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, death, family, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The clocks ticking
...Time continues to slip past. Like a river, a never-ending stream of micro seconds passing by. You can't slow it down. You can't halt it. No matter how much you try to hold it back It is still sl......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Treasures
... She firmly gripped the cardboard box as though it housed the formulas for happiness, longevity, and peace, as if it held a million dollars and a bag of gems. She sipped her bottled water th......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, fear, friendship, weather,
Form: Blank verse
A Photo
...Met some friends for lunch; We go back many, many years, Before we started families Or even our careers. We caught up on our lives, Discussing grandkids, health and trips And problems in the ......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wistful
... Like branches of a rooted, sturdy tree my family survives- each limb entwined. __by Poet So wistful are my thoughts since Ea......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, devotion, family, love,
Form: Dizain
After the Eclipse
...Clutching cardboard glasses, People gathered in the park, Waiting for the moment when The day would turn to dark. It never really did, because When experts did the math, We knew that for tota......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
There’s a Change a Coming
... Last night, my mind started wandering around the hills and hollers of the olden days again. That is not unusual as the older I get, the more time I seem to spend there. Sometimes I wonder if it’s o......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Memories of a Childhood Home
...My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the bean garden, and to sled the slope in Winter white. eyes delirious dazzled, ......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, home, house, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Hide and Seek King
...When I was young, I liked to play With other kids on my block. To backyards, front yards, everywhere, For fun, we would all flock. Every sport and game we played, When one kid on a losing stre......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, children, games, hyperbole, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Fast Forward
...Though childhood seems so long ago, Now decades in the past, My time since having grandkids Has been flying by too fast. From reading picture books with them All cozy in my lap, To building b......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, childhood, grandchild,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Inspiration, My Mom
... Back fifty-three long years ago, she left; my Mom- at the young age of fifty-five. Yet, she is always with me every day; my heart and memories keep her alive. Three growing grandk......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, appreciation, love, missing you,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
An Act of Love
...This week’s a school vacation And my grandkids are away, Yet Hadley, 8.5 years old, Connects with us each day. They’re in a different time zone So she FaceTimes when she wakes And converses f......Read the rest...
Categories: grandkids, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme

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