Moon Grandson Poems

When I became a nana,
On this date, ten years ago,
There were so many things I didn’t
Know I didn’t know.

Like how I’d feel to hold my...

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We pass the fire sticks near the police cars,
lit.
Bright round moon shine, that’s it.
The fit,
from the tall and small,
still they’d rather walk then sit
with grandpa...

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Welcome Home
Welcome to Earth
Where nobody is perfect
And nothing is always correct.

Welcome Home
Welcome to Earth
Where people laugh and talk
Where people cry and walk
Where people hate and...

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Face Time
By Franklin Price
02/22/2022

In the middle of last evening, my cell phone began to shrill
I answered, there was baby Dean, being held by Auntie Lil
Technology...

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The inspiration for this partially true piece was my older brother, Joe, and his 2 grandkids (circa 1994) - 


I can clearly see the moon,...

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My grandson has his first loose tooth
And he is so excited
As I am, if you want the truth,
For we are both united

In knowing it’s a...

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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 Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his...

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Sunset
by Michael R. Burch
								
This poem is dedicated to my grandfather, George Edwin Hurt, who died April 4, 1998.

Between the prophecies of morning
and twilight’s revelations of...

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miracle of a moon rock
in a glass case
somewhere on earth

ordinary in 2019
as my grandson shrugs

i marvel as i wait
in 1969
at the age of eight
for Armstrong’s...

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Max is coming to spend the night.  I am over the moon about it, him being my grandson.
We have tried this two or three...

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Walk with me , Grandson

Come walk with me and I’ll share with you
The wonders of the world to see
The rising sun in a time called...

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With sidewalk chalk, I drew a sun
Which Henry had requested
To match the clouds and moon and stars
I'd already invested.

But, "Make a sad sun" was his...

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Walk with me , Grandson

Walk with me and I'll share with you 
the wonders of the world
the rising sun in a time called day
and a...

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The moon shines so beautifully in her misery
Grace the world with thousand ribbons of silver rays.

There was a young man,
A pleasure slumber seeker
Eyes bares love...

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