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A Grandmother Remembering
Where have all the moments gone,
As fresh as a summer breeze!
That kissed newborn, fresh, emerald
leavees on Chicago’s trees.
Whatever became of my expansive,
Blond desk, that smelled of fresh wood?
Or, my white and black saddle...
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Categories:
beautiful, family, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Grandma's and boo boosGrandma's kisses soothe
makes all boo boos go away
as if never there...
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Categories:
grandmother,
Form: Senryu
Sweet Yesterday - EphemeraLetter of the past,
Now a treasured piece,
Letter of gone years,
Now a keepsake.
She wrote it to show her love,
She wrote it to tell me how proud she was of me,
It had words from the depth of...
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Categories:
death, grandmother, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Grandma SkatesGrandma can do it! Henry insisted.
No one else knew it, but he persisted.
Grandma laced up her skates and took to the road.
She was terrific, her moves were all gold.
She’d won the skating Olympic gold medal...
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Categories:
grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
When Everything Loses Its BeautyEvery lively landscape and tree were stripped
by fierce winter of their verdant, elegant dress:
and while they are naked and grieving amid
rainfall and fog: they still wish for sunny days!
Everything loses its beauty, it's the harshest...
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Categories:
anxiety, children, grandmother, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
grandmother,
Form: Acrostic
Grandma's StoriesGrandma's Stories
“Can I tell a tale? Well sit.I'm going to. Pull up a chair, or on the floor that will do.
I'm elderly now as things are reckoned, and i may forget the story in...
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Categories:
age, family, funny, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
The Odd Sock
Grandma knitted me and my brother,
he is blue and I am pink.
We fit snug in Sally's shoes,
off to school or to play we go.
Each week we get a warm bath,
then go round and round...
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Categories:
brother, giggle, girl, grandmother,
Form: Personification
1 2 3 4 5 6 7By Chad Carlson
The title says it all. I've been cursed with family deaths... Let me explain. 1 grandmother and 2 uncles is 3 deaths in the last 4 months. 5 weeks ago my grandmother passed,...
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Categories:
death, deep, family, grandmother,
Form: I do not know?
The Basting Spoon MaestroHer apron, a contemporary artwork
of burnt umbers and raw siennas -
dripping like happy tears, this,
her tailcoat tux - a conductor with a
basting spoon...
Culinary command of pot and kettle,
and...
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Categories:
grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Grandma's Easter Eggs
Remember when grandma would boil the eggs?
There were no fancy color kits to buy.
She used crushed berries for the royals, purple and blue,
tea or coffee for sunny shades of yellow and orange,
and spinach for gracious...
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Categories:
grandmother, childhood, children, environment, food,
Form: Haibun
Ode to Api - GrandmotherCycling amidst the gloom and glee
She pedals the life's tapestry while
People whisper the bad and good thing
She'd lived in her life,
Though lying in sick-bed
No one dared to spare her;
She still held her head high
And nothing...
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Categories:
grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Yellow Days"How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun." - Vincent Van Gogh
Yellow is the puddle of sun on the lawn;
Yellow is the dandelion daring to roar.
Yellow are the giggles of...
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Categories:
beauty, childhood, color, grandmother,
Form: List
I fell in love with Jesus by Suzan SatchellI fell in love with Jesus
Jesus, I am so happy I fell in love with you.
I never regret the day I did, and I still have not had any to date.
All I know is that...
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Categories:
childhood, faith, grandmother, jesus,
Form: Free verse
she is like meThey have the cutest clothes now for little granddaughters.
I cannot help but buy this outfit.
Another pink and orange thing? My daughter asks.
My granddaughter squeals and runs to her room to change.
She loves the colors I...
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Categories:
granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
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