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Details | Haiku | Chiming Summertime Grandfather clock Slowly adjusting

Details | Personification | Grandfather Yesterday my Grandfather died Today I found a quarter from 65'

Details | Haiku | My Grandfather Garrulous old man Who chattered like a magpie Is my grandfather.

Details | Haiku | Old Time New Time Oak grandfather clock Offers no words of wisdom To the new cell phone clock

Details | Senryu | Sunny Day Fades lurking clouds unfurl grandfather clock silent chimes hush moment broken 10/4/2021

Details | Light Verse | Grams My grandfather bitting grams My faher sending telegrams I'm now engaged in IT programmes!

Details | Free verse | Gone So Fast Grandfather It’s been So long For you to Go so fast Don’t worry For this world Won’t be your last

Details | Free verse | Grandfather in billowing pipe smoke he laughed like santa then went to heaven i was five posted on March 9, 2021

Details | Free verse | Advice Taken Grandfather I know You wanted The best for me So I will take your advice And leave alone The petulance and vice

Details | Tanka | Grandfather In sacred gardens, your heirloom roses ascend, the chipped-paint trellis— in yesterday’s reflections, where petals fell long ago

Details | Verse | Whitney2 -------- Grandfather Grandfather's Suitcase He left it, for me, she says. Inside it are his trilby and the books we used to read, and somehow, his scent of pipe. 9-5-2017

Details | Sijo | Lilies of Love Powers of language of flowers hold significance in my grief. Pink lily reminding me my grandfather found relief. Tiger lily reminding me my cousin's life was brief.

Details | Haiku | Iroquois Nation My great great great grandfather... a long time ago the people of the longhouse kept my ancestors 8/17/2018 * I have a bit of Native American in my background :)

Details | Acrostic | Grandfather Time Clicking ticks in 12 hours of seconds Long-cased box silently beckons Obediently, the pendulum swinging sings Cranking frank of old grandfathers hands Keeper keeps him pristine where he stands

Details | Rhyme | Ancestry Mama Mary taught me crochet Pa Kemp taught me sure to respect her Grandmother taught me how to cook foods that please Grandfather, who was her protector taught me things that.... I'm still learning.

Details | Epitaph | Grandfather Here lies the best Grandfather, One who was very considerate. Remembering him as a child, I would sit on his lap. He was a rare person indeed. He was a colonel in the Army. Also superlative of a gentelman. Here lies the best grandfather, May he rest in peace.

Details | Rhyme | Father Time Tick-Tock told my Grandfather clock I was chastised with a chime Knock-Knock down my door with a rock I was knocked down in my prime I was still in shock how He broke my lock How He stopped my time on a dime I will always regret, I will never forget that dreadful day I met Father Time

Details | Imagism | Fiery Spirits As the eagle glides through the air beautiful and free the spirits are calling "We are Free, We are free." The indians are dancing around the hot flaming fires of victory. By Julie Rene leek Published In Teen Voices National Magazine. In memory of my Grandfather Rennie Dittmer May he soar with the Eagles

Details | Rhyme | Time The clock , tick , tock, tick , tock. The grandfather clock Stood so perfectly on the ceramic wall. Time frozen, silent and still The time traveler passes by Thoughts flying, ideas circling, Fear manifesting, people panicking, Babies bowling, danger awaiting Mothers praying, children dying The monster arising, Heavens crying.

Details | Free verse | We Old Men Somewhere down the gravel path each carriage moves slowly and my great grandfather lumbers out, not yet ancient as I drag my hand across my eyes- these weary feet will also beg surprise in passersby, as the man keeps living, the unexpected soldier going in and out of Walmart coughing while the young close their eyes to pray.

Details | Rhyme | Time Gone Bye I sit in a corner, long discarded, In an attic, so no one can see. All the memories I hold, from stories long told, when sat on your grandfathers knee. so I sit and I wait in this corner, hope one day your memories will stir, remembering the stories your grandfather told, sat in this old rocking chair. 25/4/2023

Details | Free verse | Judgment Day There will come a cast iron rain in brown paper sackfuls carried by frail, dark men who never share your eye. And when that day comes, the skies will tremble, smiling into hairline cracks at the seams, awaiting the drum of an enormous wooden spoon, old as Grandfather Mountain and nimble as time leaping like a cut-glass trout in your still, hazel stream.

Details | Free verse | Black Tailed Deer in the strong heart society there is one known as the buffalo eye. do the sweat lodge ceremony to speak with the stone turtle. you will see the Lakota sun dance at first light with the canupa. All my relatives... walk the red road, listen to the black road. call to grandfather spotted eagle among the natural people, and red eagle will allow elk trail to use the fire of no end

Details | Light Verse | Grandfather To my grandfather with the golden soul Who sees through all the lies that are told By my side you have been offering nothing but Kindness and love To me you are my gaurdian angel There to pick me up in case I fall To my grandfather with the golden soul You are straight from the heavens above Offering me nothing more than kindness and love copyright2009 amanda vaughn

Details | Haiku | Secret Keepers Shhh...the sentinels whisper among themselves, there’s a human coming... Do not give away any secrets to them, they cannot keep secrets. Remember what we learned from old grandfather oak humans will gossip. Gaia trusts us all never divulge her secrets to human species. We are trees and we harbor religiously all knowledge entrusted.