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Mine Impossible Self Educating Mission
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matthew harris
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grandmother, 12th grade, class, crush,
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A Tweak From Grandma
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M. L. Kiser
| Sijo |
appreciation, family, grandmother, grandparents,
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Grandma, the Giant Hearted
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Anthony Slausen
| Free verse |
grandmother,
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brief hospital stay
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Jaz Han
| Free verse |
grandmother, angst, care, childhood, death,
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Raindrop Tear
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Dear Heart
| Enclosed Rhyme |
grandmother, kiss, love,
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We All Got Out The Chalk
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Caren Krutsinger
| Rhyme |
grandmother, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
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CAPTURE A MEMORY
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Jim Yerman
| Verse |
family, grandmother, memory,
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Grandma
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Skylisha Vasquez
| Free verse |
grandmother,
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Prevailing Winds
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
earth, grandmother, health, language,
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untitled
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Jaz Han
| Elegy |
grandmother, death, eulogy, flower, funeral,
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A Grandmother's Hands
by Jan Pearce
My grandmother’s hands
Were many things to me.
They were the glue
That held our family together
When anguish threatened
To rip us apart.
They were the tools
That lovingly prepared
Years of...
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Categories:
grandmother, grandparents, love,
The Child In You
by Caren Krutsinger
Jumping, running, whirling, spinning, laughing.
They are tumbling now, down, the hill, into the leaf pile.
A handful of leaves are thrown high in the air.
The child...
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Categories:
grandchild, grandfather, grandmother, grandparents,
NIGHT TIME IMAGININGS
by Ann Gilmour
“Sleep well my dear there is nothing to fear
what you see in the daylight
is here in the dark night
you just cannot see it so clear”
Waking...
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Categories:
childhood, dream, grandmother, scary,
Oaths broken by time
by D.E.T Sol
Endlessly.... scribbling....
Of our illusion...
The tale myself mouths through tears....
The line that murders my psyche....
Is "Wait... we'll come across once more...once again"
The era's arrive aging thy...
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Categories:
grandmother, absence, cry, dark, death,
Grandma
by Twig Clark
Please don't kiss Grandma
With your wrinkled worn out skin
Your breath like stinking ashtrays
With an undertone of gin.
I really love you Grandma,
But when it's time to...
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childhood, family, funny, grandmother,
Loving DARE TO BE A MARY challenge: Men too
by Anil Deo
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Some poems write themselves
Maureen McGreavey excels in pithy poetry
So I do not love writing them, sometimes
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When the Holy Spirit showed me a contrast
Luke 1, a...
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Categories:
grandmother, bible, christian, devotion, discrimination,
Unsung Laborers Day Of Humanity
by Eric Nelson Manley Shelman
Unsung Laborers Day of Humanity!
Hail to the unsung laborers who labor every day for a year, and at least up to eighteen more years!
Hail to...
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Categories:
grandmother, appreciation, birth, celebration, child,
Parlor Chair
by Susan Rigo
There is a spot in my grandmother’s home
It is reserved for guests
Older aunts and uncles on a visit, the parish priest, old friends that grandma...
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grandmother,
RIP Grandmother
by Matt Forshay
She looks so frail and fragile.
Really she’s barely alive.
Ninety six years old and she still gives death a battle.
It makes me admire her never ending...
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grandmother, anxiety, death, deep, family,
Sundays
by brooke noble
I lived to be an old woman, and how I could tell
of the changes I've seen.
i stood upon a mountain of my most precious...
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age, change, death, grandmother,
AN ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN
by Ann Gilmour
An English country garden
So evocative of times gone by
Recalling all the many plants
Lovingly sown by Granny and I
Majestic Lupins and Hollyhocks
So tall...
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appreciation, flower, grandmother, nostalgia,
Grand
by eric ploscik
Seeing you without breath
Eyes closed
The beauty of spirit extinguished
Would have left me in shambles
Sent off the edge of that physical plane
Into the recesses and abyss...
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grandmother, tribute,
I BEQUEATH TO YOU MY TEDDY
by Ann Gilmour
I can hardly wait to meet you
To hold you and to greet you
As I wait for your arrival
My darling sweet Grandchild
My heart is overflowing
With such...
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grandmother, celebration, emotions, feelings, grandchild,
MISSING YOU
by JAN ALLISON
There isn’t a day that goes past
when mum doesn’t mention your name
Mum is an elderly lady now
yet she still refers to you as ‘mummy’
It’s...
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Categories:
grandmother, how i feel,
What If
by Dear Heart
What if,
my sister Suzanne had not died on that snowy winter day
it was so pretty with the snow falling down and the icicles on trees
I...
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Categories:
baby, death, father, grandmother,
Pshaw
by Rhona McFerran
“Pshaw!” My grandmother said
as she thumped and bumped about
her crowded kitchen
steam rising, having
heated conversation with herself
Rankled by my grandfather's
latest excuse for not helping
around the house
Thwack!...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, grandmother, humor,
Beatae Memoriae Of Blessed Memory
by Jo Jo Lou
I silently departed this world, leaving my family behind
Slipping silently away, making my exit perfectly timed
Alone in life and isolated in death
Reaching out for you,...
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Categories:
death, grandmother, spiritual,
Green Dream Whispering
by Gerald Dillenbeck
To avoid unnecessary oppressor and victim stuckness
in reiteratively dissonant looping
loopy voices,
To avoid interior and exterior terror climates
of self and other perpetual Lose to Lose
claustrophobic shut-down...
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Categories:
childhood, culture, grandmother, green,
Grandma s Cornbread
by Eve Roper
Grandma’s Cornbread
grandma grind the corn
oven warm
butter sweet cornbread
10/5/2018
Poetry Contest: Baker's Dozen
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy...
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grandmother,
Appreciated
by Phatt Matt
Hello from the other side
I Must have thought about you
a thousand times
They say time's supposed to heal you
I ain't done much of healing
Mama I...
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Categories:
death, deep, goodbye, grandmother,