Day Grandparents Poems

Every 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...

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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...

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A 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...

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A good man is hard to find, just as my Nana always said. That day, I witnessed tears in her eyes as she firmly stuffed...

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Mince Pies for sharing, I’m sure you’ll agree
Evergreen festive lights are a-glowing
Repeats aplenty, our Christmas TV
Recycling bins are all overflowing
Your decorations will brighten the door
Come...

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As we wait for the day
To start over anew
We watch the sunrise
Dry the morning dew.
You have a paper,
And I have a bowl
This drink has stained...

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Only three of us now who knew
both sets of our grandparents.
The three of us, 96, 94 and 88,
how much time have we left?
There are sepia...

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It was not early in the morning,
Didn't turn off the headlights even then,
All night long, piloting the freight train,
Both crews are on the verge of...

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One day I pray to meet
My children's children, with my mother's blue eyed glee
Seeing me

My deepest wish
Blessed to see my progeny
Love rich

My child
Hope to see...

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I ran across some photos the other day
hanging off an old branch on our family tree…
and as photos often do they awoke a memory in...

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My parents special wedding day
with beautiful flowers in May
I should not have been there
making grandparents swear
why did they want to name me Jay...

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I sit next to you, 

I have never seen such beauty in my life. 

My beautiful, darling wife, 

I have seen you stand in front...

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“I don’t like to give advice…but I will tell you what I know.” my grandpa used to say.
and much of the advice he never gave…I...

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Now I

"Now I lay me down to sleep."

We all know the prayer
that we should keep.
Grandma taught us
when we were small
so that we would remember, 
when...

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We are in Day One of the occupation, having survived the first night; however, in a surprise attack, they employed biological warfare and the defenses...

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