Long Grandmothers Poems
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Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
grandmothers, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
grandmothers, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
The Angry Black WomanShe stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
grandmothers, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
Laundering Her AccountsNew England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...
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Categories:
grandmothers, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Ending In a Deadly Minor KeySo here's my question for this dawning day,
like a WinWin ruminating message in a bottle
floating through a LoseLose climate sea
felt still foggy from last night,
some mysterious how now;
One of many
health related strategic WinLose issues
tuning out...
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Categories:
grandmothers, anger, anti bullying, dark, fear, green, grief,
Form:
Political Verse
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
grandmothers, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 138 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: New Triplet ADDITIONSDate: May 2050
Damian returned home early morning
Back from another visit with Dolly. Still
Early misty May morning another
Dawning. 2050! The newborns triplets were
Sleeping. Damian was peeping. He would
Have to travel the...
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Categories:
grandmothers, beach, child,
Form:
Alliteration
Restoring Inside JusticeHealing Win/Lose EgoNomial Intent
We belong together
Through all kinds of colonizing corporate weather,
We belong creolizing together.
So sings my mitochondrial DNA
when I listen deeply
to all prior matriarchal regenerations
speaking in still
soft
timeless win/win voices
Especially about polycultural outcome...
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Categories:
grandmothers, culture, education, grandmother, health, integrity, language, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Just a Tree - a RequiemSomeone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter,
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for a very short time
and just a little…
You see.
Your transparent...
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Categories:
grandmothers, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity, murder, natural disasters,
Form:
Free verse
Search For MysticpowersMy inside mystic still searches
for my strongest and best
omnipotently higher all-embracing Power
of unchanging monotheistic Truth
and Beauty.
My outside voices
still long for deeper Power
through widely multicultural EnLightenment
of changing
flowing spanentheism
in-between Earth's ecological Nature face
and my own ego-identity's theological...
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Categories:
grandmothers, community, culture, health, integrity, wisdom, woman, words,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist KindUnquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)
STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
- standing with legs...
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Categories:
grandmothers, beautiful, crush, cute love, desire, humor, men,
Form:
Free verse
She Believes In Lavender MoonsIntroduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the...
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Categories:
grandmothers, faith, growth, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Biography Mark Hurlin SheltonMark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...
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Categories:
grandmothers,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Herstory from Battlefields to LaboratoriesHerstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Beneath stardust's scattered gleam,
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.
Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a chorus harmonizing,
...In this vast, of an eternal fold.
I am...
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Categories:
grandmothers, freedom, girl, history, literature, march, rights, women,
Form:
Narrative
Elsabob Comes To the ForestThe forest had enjoyed a magical transformation.
Dusk had ushered in the firefly brigade.
They lit up the pond area like tiny LED lights.
I could see they were excitedly motioning to the faeries.
Although I do not speak...
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Categories:
grandmothers, animal, fairy, fantasy, friend, friendship, nature, tree,
Form:
Narrative
the grand masked ballWe’re in Paris, staying with my Grandmère (Grandmother) for a few days around Mother’s day.
Peter (my bf) is getting to know my Grandmère. They’ve started to relax and enjoy each other. This time, when they...
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Categories:
grandmothers, boyfriend, fun, grandmother, mothers day, paris, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 56 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Polly EquationAugust 11 2032
It was the Day after Damian's
39th birthday. The Seven were
Now a year old. They slept in
Two big beds welded together.
It still appeared as one big
Crib because of the railings.
The...
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Categories:
grandmothers, adventure, allusion, child, devotion, emotions, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Eighth Grade EnglishBack in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions
Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable
multicultures invoking poetry
flowing soulfully
provoking gospel primal anthems
Of StraightWhite Man...
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Categories:
grandmothers, culture, earth day, grandmother, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
A Little Share of the Comments from my Peers!Hi sharing a few of the comments coming onto my page will post more in later days ---! Love Always from Joyce Faure to your reading space God bless you very well also in...
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Categories:
grandmothers, appreciation, beautiful, care, career, dedication, faith, friend,
Form:
Bio
Short StoryThe first time I saw my father I was a year and 8 months old. He had returned home for a short respite before shipping out to England to prepare for the invasion. It...
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Categories:
grandmothers, father, world war ii,
Form:
Narrative
I Heard the Wise WordsI HEARD THE WISE WORDS
The day wise words were spoken
It was over near the beaten path;
Where I first heard them uttered.
“Beware of the fool in his folly
Who may be clever in presenting his story;
Only for...
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Categories:
grandmothers, life, voice, wisdom, words,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Year AgoAbout a year ago,
as the COVID pandemic
seemed to subside,
then swell,
happily ebb
and yet impatiently flow
Again,
about a year ago
I was noticing cold autumn nights
bringing first frost
to my metal windowframes
and skeletal post-surgery-tired back
and neglected aging heart.
Outside corner unit...
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Categories:
grandmothers, appreciation, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, introspection,
Form:
Political Verse
I Heard the Wise WordsI HEARD THE WISE WORDS
The day wise words were spoken
It was over near the beaten path;
Where I first heard them uttered.
“Beware of the fool in his folly
Who may be clever in presenting his story;
Only for...
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Categories:
grandmothers, judgement, perspective, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
SequestrationI never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator.
But I’ve graduated from the torment.
My...
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Categories:
grandmothers, death, loneliness, longing, pain, political, repetition, sick,
Form:
Free verse
WitchesETHREE
Witch
Sneering
Bubbly
A pimply nose
To be feared by all
So Halloween friendly
More terrifying than ghosts
Placing eye of newt in cauldrons
Pure evil in our fantasy books
Horribly foul and mean in faerie tales.
A frozen heart places children in ovens
Crones of...
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Categories:
grandmothers, perspective,
Form:
Etheree