Confusion Grandparents Poems

Unsettled Calm

Why am I writing this, 
when they say... 
really no one cares? 
I don't believe they are right. 
The more "they" try to prove...

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Day Dreams

I love to have daydreams, 
about the nighttime. 
I believe I can see it all 
clearer in the light. 
I am not afraid of...

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Deprived (sleep)

The small green light
on the radio dial... 
glares at me in the dark. 
It is like a lazar light show going off. 
I threw...

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Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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One group of activists decided to fight. 
To see family lose their sense of might. 
Three people involved in each battle. 
For the patients each...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Poems about Children II



On Looking into Curious George’s Mirrors
by Michael R. Burch

for Maya McManmon, granddaughter of the poet Jim McManmon

Maya was made in the image...

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Lessons
The compos compels our force and direction.
But still we stop where we start.
Eternal rotating, repeating mistakes and never learning to part
Ignoring the grief in their...

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Thief of Glory 
 
Faded flowers, 
dead on the table, 
no vase, no water, 
no blood, 
no sacrifice, 
of time, sweat, tears, 
years and fears....

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Christmas Past...

I would bake all night;
cookies, cakes, pies and the like. 
I would put things together, 
that had no instructions, 
at least in any language...
that...

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Be Sure

I have been let down before. 
Not once but many times. 
Let us be honest, 
nearly always. 

Perhaps you will be different, 
perhaps you...

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Your Sweet Face

The first thing I see
looking at me, 
are your eyes.
Like the deep of space, 
grabbing my soul, 
and sending it outward, 
beyond. 
Where...

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Rebecca

Daughter of The King. 
Your namesake blessed a nation, 
be proud. 
You began life, 
ahead of most. 
Already you were glorified, 
held high by your...

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Mush-mellows and Cream

Sweet cream and butter, 
sugar, milk and eggs, 
the treat to eat, 
and no one knows, 
the secret. 

“Mush” is a funny plant,...

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Batteries

Included with your purchase, 
items of importance, 
things you might
have forgotten, 
at the last minute. 
Gifts that have…
no marked down price, 
no lesser quality, 
and...

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