Work Grandparents Poems

Inquiring of my grandparents to explain love,
Teasing grandpa said, "Togetherness alone pays."

I asked him, what's kept you together all these years?
"Tethers do not work, the...

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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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One Dollar

When I was a kid, 
I worked for every dime I got. 
I folded papers, 
I took out the trash, 
I did dishes, 
washed...

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Za Za Zoom, Za Da Zing: Gen Zoomers
Ba Da Boom, Da Bing: Baby Boomers
Tech awakens in Baby Zoomers
Their Zoom nature being late bloomers

Digital video stays...

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I just finished flipping the calendar to March
I keep a paper one hanging on my kitchen wall 
despite everything being digital 
I’m old school some...

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When being little was your super power
adored by grandparents who had gifts of love
always asking do you want more food more money
whatever could not be...

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Poem for Grandma and Pappy's Internment

Picking june-bugs off of roses
Watering lilies by the dozen
Spreading mulch in the heat of the day
Watching a storm roll in...

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It was going to be the best Christmas of the most spectacular, magnificent Christmases in the world.Certainly, the best one we had ever seen, for...

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This lucky youngster definitely got an ample helping of “love” whenever he visited his grandparents on their farm.

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SWEET MEMORIES OF MY EARLY CHILDHOOD

              How Sweet To The Heart Are...

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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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Dark -thirty

I don't know what time it is. 
I know work ended, 
at least the place I get paid, 
to do the things they need...

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Truth Matters

Deplorable. 
That is what I am. 
That is okay with me. 
I work hard, 
Have a family. 
I support my wife, 
and my own...

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Pineapple Delight

Today is the first day, 
The rest will all just follow, 
and sometimes get in the way. 
There will be good times, 
bad times,...

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Like a New Day

Every day is, the same...
and not. 
I long to go to work. 
I have lost my mind?
What a crazy statement.

I used to...

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