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Grandfather Haibun Poems

These Grandfather Haibun poems are examples of Haibun poems about Grandfather. These are the best examples of Haibun Grandfather poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Wilted Daffodils
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Last fall we faithfully planted daffodil bulbs in our tree beds, waiting patiently for their arrival in early spring. Then in spring, the daffodils, golden...

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Categories: flower, seasons,



Premium Member Where Cardinals Fly
We crept down a meandering country road, gravel crackling underneath our tires. The countryside stretched before us like a great quilt of golden, brown, and...

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Categories: memory,

Premium Member This Old House
The old house, built in 1895, was the best of weathered antiques having hugged North Rogers Street from days of horses to days of horse-powered...

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Categories: home, memory,

Premium Member Memories and Ghosts
In the two days since my arrival, Granddad and I exchanged only a few predictable, cursory words.

“You sleep okay?” Granddad asked.

Although his silent house had...

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Categories: family, grandfather, memory, silence,

Premium Member Catching Lightning Bugs
When I was a little girl, Granddad and I spent many summer evenings together sipping lemonade and swinging back and forth on his vintage metal...

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Categories: grandfather, insect, magic, night,



Pocket Knife
My grandfather made a gift of his pocket knife. It wasn’t in his will or anything, he just quietly took my hand, put the silver...

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© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandfather, memory,

Premium Member Memories
I've grown old with grace, but a memory of walking side by side holding each other's hand nourishing closeness and intimacy sparks.
   His...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost, love,

Premium Member The Guardian
He pours through my soul, like silky hot chocolate; I dream of loving smiles and a golden heart.  A guardian spirit whose voice I’ve...

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Categories: appreciation, family, grandparents, inspirational,

Premium Member Fisherman's Pride
I catch myself roaming around our cottage by the bay this July--- the glare of sun toasting shells along the coast. My mind wanders on...

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Categories: fishing, grandfather, summer,

Premium Member A Songbird Climbs

In breaths of morning dawn the generations before would drift through my mind. A legacy of gold and silver in depths of the dawning rise...

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Categories: family, farm, grandfather, love,

The Order of the Black Cage
Nineteen eighty-four was a year of forgotten memories. Somewhere in the United States a secret society was started called The Order of the Black Cage....

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abuse, courage, discrimination, mystery,

The Network Nibble
It was the year 4250 and a very nice day. Grine who was well tanned and with long, dark flowing hair had just left his...

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Categories: computer, education, food, friendship,

Clean and Clear
Shortly after studying consciousness for a few years, It dawned on me why going with my grandfather to clean our pasture spring was such a strong...

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Categories: analogy, spring, water,

Premium Member Eulogy In My Heart
Out in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows...

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Categories: beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,


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