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Resting Her Eyes
Back before the world knew of
Computers, cell phones and compact discs
There lived a little girl who loved grandma
In a way that could be said was fanatical
She followed grandma through her garden
Naming vegetables and flowers, listening
To...
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Categories:
family, grandmother, love, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Boardwalk and Park Place for GrandmaBoardwalk and Park Place she would always get.
I almost never landed on them, so she’d throw a fit.
She’d spend all of her money getting them hotels too.
I would zoom around collecting two hundred dollars with...
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Categories:
grandmother, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Poem for Ma who liked poetryMa,
Leaping off the crown of a candle,
A hot bead without hold or handle,
Blobbed as us all on the bee-smell body of a star.
Air,
Shushing from the womb of her shell room,
The leant lung's slow snore looping...
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Categories:
grandmother, beautiful, bereavement, death, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Grandma One Trixie ZeroMy head opened up and spilled its guts onto a page.
It was unexpected, I will tell you that right now.
Trixie, my head muse was totally angry, she started to rage.
How can you alone...
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Categories:
grandmother, muse,
Form: Rhyme
NEVER COULD WE IMAGINE
~dedicated to Anni who is moving on
to meet up with her beloved Carl~
alone behind
grey hospital walls
she picks up the phone
and calls each grand-daughter
to say a final goodbye
she feels today’s
the day
Submitted on: January 21, 2021
Contest:...
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Categories:
death, goodbye, grandmother, journey,
Form: Free verse
Little Sparrow Afraid Of WinterNo snow has fallen yet,
daises still soak up sunlight,
no wind makes them shiver;
grannies gather outside and chat,
many have silver-gray hair.
Little sparrow afraid of winter
trembling and imagining snowflakes
and that Northern wind with furious gusts,
it's December and...
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Categories:
bird, fear, grandmother, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
A SANDWICH FOR SAM
Second grade, Sam, going to school.
White shirt, navy blue pants,to learn
the Bible and the Golden Rule.
The children hoist the great American flag
at the beginning of each day.
The tall trees and church steeple smiled
that morning in...
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Categories:
boy, grandmother, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Grandmas Lapshe patted her apron
tiny boy crawled inside
she covered him up
hiding him from the cruel world
never letting him go
he was safe
...
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Categories:
grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
HANDMADE BEFORE MY GRANDPAs DEMISEA 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
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Categories:
bible, death, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Clerihew
Six Foot InstructionsI am going to die of something the old woman said.
I won’t care about hugs or kisses after I am dead.
But today when I see my grandchild, I want some fun.
I want hugs and kisses,...
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Categories:
age, america, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
She Cared
Her hands were forever moving, occupied with work
Leaving trails of memories across my heart
Whispering hope to my spirit
Silencing my worries and fears
Lighting the way for serenity
To color my thoughts in hues of lavender lace
Tracing out...
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Categories:
family, grandmother, love,
Form: Free verse
Jan Allison
Amusing and entertaining leaving you in rolling laughter with humorous poetry; a gentle soft soul, nutty and charming. Quote by: Poet
"Just thinkin", will it be the year;
"A gift to last a lifetime" appear.
"New...
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Categories:
grandmother,
Form: Acrostic
my treasure of grandma
the day my grandma died I was called by my uncle
to come to the nursing home and told take whatever you want
the rest is going for donation . . .
I stood...
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Categories:
granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Verse
Green ApplesGreen Apples
Lovely…
not yet ripe,
sweet fruit from grandma’s…
most favorite tree.
She planted it…
just for me.
When I was born,
my mama died.
It was a hard time…
for papa.
He could not understand…
how one angel,
must...
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Categories:
grandmother, angel, cancer, courage, grandchild,
Form: Free verse
Grandmother SpiderShe insists on her own way; having to have control of all situations.
Actually stole me from my mother, and insisted on raising me her way.
I disengaged from her diabolical controlling web twenty years ago.
Other family...
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Categories:
grandmother,
Form: Prose Poetry
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