Grandmother Poems

My mind a thick fog, a thick fog so deep, 
it threatens to submerge my thoughts. 
I know not why, or how, or even who,
for the fog makes me it's puppet. 
It stutters and now I. 
It forgets and so...Read More

He had a perpetual angry sneer
A lip that curled and an attitude that said
Back off

Expressed dissatisfaction with you 
before you reached his eye level
you could feel his disgust

He expected the worst in everyone
Substandard treatment, racism, sexism,
and all the other isms

He...Read More

Resolutions each January I feel I must do.                                ...Read More

I navigate my computer,                                    ...Read More

Singing birds emerging.
Pretty flowers are blooming.
Rabbits are hopping.
In spring things start living.
Nests of eggs are cracking.
Gardens are now growing.

Written Date: 1/21/2020...Read More

No more poetry,
say it's not so.
How do I live not writing any more, 
no more words and stories to express.
No more rhymes,
to pass my time.
How about acrostic,
running down the side.
Free verse loved by all,
it is now all gone.
No more poetry,...Read More

All the birthday boys,                                    ...Read More

Newfoundlanders can row, you should see some of'em go,
when they puts a punt on a pond. 
But I don't like this mess, all this Race foolishness,
I'd never seen so much goings on.

If you wants to see someone rowing, 
you needs...Read More

"You have air looks like  you got too comfortable  
You can walk you can sneeze
Achoo other sink bless you gesundheit
Let's not get too comfortable
Asleep Blinded by the Light you open your eyes 
And you see hatred you've gotten...Read More

*****This poem was inspired through the idea of there being no life after death, or the belief in atheism. In recent years more and more young people are commiting suicide; recent studies have shown that there is a commonality between...Read More

You sit as always-earphones in and eyes glued to a screen,
soon you will stand and leave, sometimes you say goodbye,
I watch you in your other world to which I do not belong.

I go to the freezer and select our tea,...Read More

I remember as a little girl when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Everyone cried, everyone gathered around the TV set waiting for word.
We sang the “Star Spangled Banner,” “God Bless America,” and “Oh Danny Boy,”
(Because, as my Grandfather explained it, the...Read More

Shadow Lights

Have you ever noticed? 
When you sit your hands upon the keys. 
If you close your eyes, 
just right...
not too tight, no peeking, but still
they move all on their own. 
They hear things we have yet to listen too....Read More

In her car, the woman in deeepest melancholy sat.
Rain falling, tears falling, splat!

She thought of those many days before.
With many a handsome suitor at her door.

She closed her eyes and she warmly remembered!
Teaching bubbling children in those autumn-hued Septembers.

That cold,...Read More

"Those were better times. Good times!
Being round my grands…

It reminds me of my grandparents;
Grandma, baba, ouma, bomma grandmother;
Love to read poems sing them ole time songs;
So much love they given each of us;

Those were better times. Good times!
Being round my...Read More

Many A Mile


What it means to be loved by the river 
Overflowing with joy , warmth, laughter 
The rain has come 
The sun has gone 
The rays have been delayed 
The only thing that remains is 
The eye of day...Read More

Be That Rock
by Michael R. Burch
 
for George Edwin Hurt Sr.
 
When I was a child
I never considered man’s impermanence,
for you were a mountain of adamant stone:
a man steadfast, immense,
and your words rang.
 
And when you were gone,
I still heard...Read More

chocolate chip cookie
inspired by grandmother
oozing pure sweetness...Read More

Table for One

Crayons…..chewed
			all colors taste the same

story told
	        with sound effects

contest won
		longest French fry

dessert
	     purple - Black Raspberry ice cream

alone
	in the brain freeze zone

dancing     ...Read More

England
As the carriage wheels click down the cobble road
Five tall hats stand alone with a horse drawn carriage
Night lanterns placed on both sides and glass windows
With a somber look the driver leads this funeral parade

In one of the years in...Read More

I want a cobra for Christmas
Only a cobra will do
Don't want any other junk, certainly no toy
I want a cobra that will eat up a large boy.
I want a Cobra for Christmas
And maybe some nutty trail mix.
I don't think Santa...Read More

My grandmother often advised
"no need to borrow trouble."

My grandmother-in-law warned
"you don't need to look for trouble
because it will find you,"
which seems a better fit
with my own experience
with actively soliciting trouble,

Disempowering investments
purchased at lowest ego-cost
for discounted risky value,
or borrowed,
when too broke...Read More

Yesterday

We 
that can remember
keep-alive
those that have been forgotten,
in the small room,
the place in our hearts,
where God 
plants the best flowers,
and no tears…
fall.
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I was saddened to hear the passing of our beloved sister Adele,
Now that she has gone home to the Lord.

She will be remembered by her sisters and brother,
As a loving mother and friend to her husband Dr. Norm.

Dr. Norman and...Read More

The 42 Inch Hallway

We’re stepping along the musty hallway now.
I am taking us on a fast-moving memory ride;
A mind-bending groovy slide to 1965,
When Dylan music was seeping loudly like a germ,
Down the green-carpeted hallway of my youth, from
Within the record-filled...Read More

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