Never say that she is deadWe will not say that she is dead.
We have never said that she is dead.
We will never say that she is dead.
We’ll say she’s in heaven
We will say she passed away
We tell the children she went to God’s house
And became an angel on the way.
We say she’s gone
We say she died
But none...
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Categories:
death, funeral, goodbye, grandparents,
Form: Elegy
Make Memories or Score PointsGood times and fitness
In albums, so witnessed
Score nil on the test
That determines one’s ‘rest’.
It pays to boost odds
Through praises to G-d,
Kindness to a spouse
When inside the house;
Be noted Above
For doling out love
And enrich one’s ascent
On the charity spent.
The grandkids may place
On the mantle, your face
Then move on, past the shelf,
To make memories of self....
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Categories:
grandchild, grandparents,
Form: Rhyme
Neatness and GodlinessEvery picture I’ve seen of you as a child,
You wear your hair in plaits.
A stern middle parting and two dark brown braids
Falling down on each shoulder.
A maypole’s dream.
You would do your best to wash them when you could,
When shampoo was available,
Or even in the single, small bathroom.
You would vigorously scrub your face too
With...
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Categories:
bereavement, children, grandparents, poverty,
Form: Free verse
An Irish Love SongRed flowing hair, she waited long
in her arms, he did belong
why go to fight, she did not know
a bloody battle, the Somme, in flow
she waited long, with babe in arms
in her heart, it tears apart
they were so young and very poor
why war to fight, she wasn't sure.
would he come back, to her devote
so...
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Categories:
cry, grandparents, together,
Form: Rhyme
The Fair in My Heart-Ode to My Grandparents
I was just a girl of six or seven,
Stubborn, wild, yet touched by heaven.
Mornings woke with fairs in bloom,
Joy would dance in every room.
Only from Nani’s hands I’d eat,
Her love was warm, her touch was sweet.
We'd stroll through lanes with hearts so light,
The world felt safe, the sky so bright.
But if she left for work...
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Categories:
grandparents, blessing, candy, caregiving, childhood,
Form: Lyric
I Am From pt2I am from sitting in the front row church pew I never wanted to be in twice.
The genuine smiles in the photos on the memory board were oh-so-different from
The ones we plastered on at the American Legion and the Irish pub
There we gulped bottomless Shirley Temples and spent twenty dollars on darts.
All to distract ourselves...
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Categories:
death, funeral, grandmother, grandparents,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Visiting
He planned on moving out
This place that held the living dead
These halls that magnified the screams
His wristband said otherwise
Trapped here for life
Though it would be a temporary stay
In a way
You could tell from the state of his mind
And the stare of his eyes
That he didn't have to wait too much longer
To leave these haunted halls
He...
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Categories:
8th grade, devotion, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
CHOICESWe make our own choices
In life and no one's perfect
But when you decide to have kids
It's your responsibility not
The grandparents, the children now
Have excessive energy, don't listen
Throws tantrums, and have no
Discipline at all, because they're
Not taught, if you the parent
Can't control them what expect
From the grandparents, then you
want them to babysit Monday through
Friday, plus weekends...
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Categories:
feelings, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
SENIOR CITIZEN PERSPECTIVEA Senior Citizen any day
Blessed to wake up hooray
Through the aches and pain
Sometimes the need to complain
Memory sometimes in forget
Enjoyment of retirement blitz
Carefree sensation
Surrounded by family and Grandchildren
Forget the Nursing Home
Always a need to walk and talk
Enriched spirit
Wanting to enjoy and live
Breath of Life
Embracing refreshing flowers
Sometimes for hours
Oasis of their own
Rocking Chair moments
Reflecting on...
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Categories:
grandparents, america, appreciation, care, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful ladyBeautiful lady
She had her
daddy's eyes
She had her
Mom's smile.
She had her
grandpa's strength
She had her
Grandma's style.
What a beautiful lady
she would have
turned out to be.
Oh wait a minute,
she did,
that beautiful lady
was me.
...
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Categories:
grandparents, confidence, family, father daughter,
Form: Verse
Treats grandbaby differently than sondraconian dad
stubbornly immovable
until grandbaby
grandbaby request
cant be denied by papa
amazed baby dad...
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Categories:
grandparents,
Form: Senryu
For Granny or Me
Swear words, public nudity
Teen-aged crime and murder sprees
Abortion-on-demand, LGTQB
~ No place left for granny or me
...
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Categories:
grandparents, society, violence,
Form: Monorhyme
Aarohi in the Becoming of Agent AaroAarohi, it took me so long to meet
the tiger inside me.
It took me so long to let the sparrow inside me go.
Now that I can sing out like a thunderstorm,
I hope that you can hear
the determination you come from;
I hope you know that you are not a limitation.
You are the fearless agent prowling in the...
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Categories:
grandparents, baby, father, grandchild, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
Remembering my GrandparentsA good man is hard to find, just as my Nana always said. That day, I witnessed tears in her eyes as she firmly stuffed the monthly tithe into the envelope and headed to church that Sunday morning. Earlier, she had been rightfully screaming at my granddad for hours. She was furious with the old...
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Categories:
grandparents, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
What Hurts The MostWhat hurts more than the fact
I didn’t get to say goodbye
Is the fact
They’ll never see what I become....
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Categories:
death, grandparents, grief, growing
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Grandparents Poems
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