Long Grandfather Poems
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I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
grandfather, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Dragon StewOn an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
grandfather, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
grandfather, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
grandfather, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
grandfather, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
grandfather, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
grandfather, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
grandfather, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems 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 life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
grandfather, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
grandfather, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
grandfather, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
grandfather, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
grandfather, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 96 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Boundaries Regulations and FrustrationsDate: August 2041
Members of the Damian fraternity
Were relaxing in the backyard. The
Soon to be 4 year olds conducted
Themselves in their sandbox.
The older children picniced on
The grass. Amadeus DJ Damali
And Desharah sat...
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Categories:
grandfather, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young SolomonsDamian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be leaving today...
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Categories:
grandfather, adventure, birth, business, father son, women,
Form:
Alliteration
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Donald Pellegren born 6-4-1937 garment district slash Detroit hitman posing as a nice guy publisherDonald impersonating
a nice guy publisher right
after my accident traumatic
brain injury car bomb attack
he followed me to book stores
ice cream shops art museum
obsessed with my poetry my
manuscript i was writing...
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Categories:
grandfather, allah,
Form:
Ghazal
Federal Probe alerts all aboard greatlakes navy base The probe alerts for federal
employees identification machines
data including finger printing
system use for fraudulent
access to aviation government
buildings documents and data
to allow domestic terrorists access
identication machines still not
located be vigil when...
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Categories:
grandfather, allah,
Form:
Naat
MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKIOTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF
MOUNT CARMEL...
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Categories:
grandfather, allah,
Form:
Villanelle
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
grandfather, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
grandfather, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
grandfather, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
grandfather, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
A Night On a WharfA Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
grandfather, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Too bad your BX from behind bars threats are wastedMany blessings after all these years i got refunded for the days I worked 1997 I left a job at the BX i left in great standing actually they owed me six days pay by...
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Categories:
grandfather, allah,
Form:
Lento