Long Grandbaby Poems

How the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter 
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm 
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising 
five children including my granddaughter only four...

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We could speak together,
Decry rabid violence of chronically stressed kids
and young adults acting like kids,
apparently regardless of income or race;
perhaps not of enculturation.

Feeling claustrophobic,
anxious about an unpromising competitive future,
drowning in inch-deep and narrow boxed-in mentoring...

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Dear Laura…

I have an inclination that when you read this down the road you will have lived a long healthy and happy life. These things I pray for you.

I pray for guidance when your daughter...

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Wearing Daddy's boots & cowboy hat & not much in between
Why, Momma, ain't she just about the prettiest baby you've ever seen?
I'm sure wishing she was talking, reading her mind is quite a trick
And she's...

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My friend had a Christmas gift
He wanted to give me;
He shushed it was a secret
And I couldn't see.

It's awful not knowing
What a present is:
It's like getting stuck
In a cryptogrammic quiz.

He laughed
When I begged for a...

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She was surprised to see her father
Then her parents eagerly planned her future
He was college
Mom wanted marriage
They argued for hours
It was the longest she was her mother n father
No one ask her what she wanted
It...

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I'm busy with my children
                              ...

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I Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen am a grandma.
Going crazy with worry about my grandbaby.
He keeps getting a rash so, to the doctor we dash.
Many times—
One day he looks better, maybe.
The next it is worse add fever...

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I walk  in the pathetic pages of a used tired book
Crushed by the heavy leaves that lied to me
The older I become, the angrier I see
orange, red, yellow peeling 
Panting, painting, pelting poems
against a...

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Hello!
Yes, I got your number from my sister.
She got it from the bulletin board at the “Stop, Shop and Save-a-lot”
I’m calling about the ad for “cleaning lady needed”
     I have a...

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You are not yet born but I love you so,
excited for your arrival in ech day that you grow.
I look forward to meeting you for the very first time,
happy to have you sweet grandbaby of...

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Mother wore an ample apron
to cover her clean dress.
She'd tell you that's what it was for
if you asked her, I would guess.

But that apron had more uses
than I could even count.
It brought in eggs and...

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wind wisps dark locks
from her brow
green eyes gaze 
across 
saguaro spiked slopes 
over 
sticks and stucco 
where once was a river 
and corn grew tall
her mama's native blood
her dad's rugged heart
she belongs to this land
pushed...

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In a corner of the town, stands a building of antiques.
Not an ordinary building but one that percepts the imagination;
sense datum begins and a scene takes place.

I am transpose to my great grandmother days.
I see...

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They talked about their great grandbaby as if she was a movie star.
I was sick of smiling at her pictures, and I could not walk very far.
They would chase me down the sidewalk to see...

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Her Mom named her Ashley but I call her Pootie.
Because in my eyes she's a real cutie.

When she was born I looked into her eyes.
I said she's a beauty and then started to cry.

She was...

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Mamma wore an ample apron
To cover her clean dress.
She’d  tell you that’s what it was for 
If you’d asked her, I would guess.

But that apron had more uses 
Than I could even count.
It brought...

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Larry cut off his tractor to give Donna his full attention.
She had never wanted to be in the cab with him before.
He concentrated on the feel of her warm body next to his.
It was not...

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Happy

A friend asked the other day,
Are you happy in everyway.
I stood there and thought for a while,
And all I could do was give her a smile. 

Then I told her with my head held high,
that...

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