Grandmother History Poems

PolyTheistic birds chirp
and caw inviting
attracting
co-investing
warmly co-operative round 0 sounds

Resounds of monotheistic predative 1 scares
staring songs of YangStrong polarity
rigid
unbending
turgid
urgent need
want
passion

PolyTheistic remanding
ecofeminist systemic 
matriarchal flow,
exflowation
extroversion
exhalation

Inhaling information
implantation
enlightening pregnant...

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Bloody moonlight, carcass and crow's. 
Rigid creatures,created from night shadows. 
Teeth that are shrewd, creeping like an harrow. 
Dyed rosemary, widespread whispers. 
Marching band,roaches on...

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Spirits wander in and wander out
met usually with a painful shout
They give me chills but also wonder
are they real or tales from dark under?

This story...

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Outspoken mom to eight
Ornery little boys
Omelets for dinner
Only drank rye whiskey
Orchids, her private love~
Old letters in the hand
Of my great grandmother.

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Bac N tha day
Grand gran M would say
Boy B for y'all sit down
Better wash em hands
Go down to the creek N way them hanzs
Wash them...

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What a wonderment for her to be alive my Grandma's Grandma
Just look at her hands these are grandma's little hands the hands where she needed...

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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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My Name is Paul & I am a Young Black Male

My Grandmother's Father was from Great Britain, his Family came to the New World to...

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Yesterday

We 
that can remember
keep-alive
those that have been forgotten,
in the small room,
the place in our hearts,
where God 
plants the best flowers,
and no tears…
fall....

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Great grandmother Rosa
Grandmother Maryrose
And Mother Roseann 
Daughter April Rose
Granddaughter Kayla Rose
Granddaughter Ella Rose 
Love all my Roses
//  ¦¦  \\
//   ¦¦ ...

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Like lack of preventive health care,
far more love is lost
through passive neglect
than active abuse.

And so it is
perhaps a negative corollary
we, most of us,
have failed to...

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Call me small, petite, skinny and/or tiny as these names have aired 
during my life on repeat.  I wonder if my size is just...

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HEBREW ,
Who are you
I am the truth
The man, the woman, the child you hid
The story you change
The lie you told
The Queen you raped
The King you...

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If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something  captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing and...

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My grandmother sure liked a good story,
so did her mother, and her mother Flori;
    who settled in New France,
   ...

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