Grandmother Narrative Poems

She taught me the Lord's Prayer,
leading me to the knowledge of God.

Very accepting and non-judgmental,
my mother always supported and believed
in me. She never put me...

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The orbiting host of a forenoon sky claims a sunny day. They are attributed for the better part of each year, primarily affecting the island's...

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What is causing the very latest generational great divides in America?
The division is between the older generations: the Silent Generation,
the Baby Boomers and Generation X....

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Grandma died when I was 18 years old, on Christmas day. I never really got to know her well, since the family had pretty much...

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    The young mother died,
    before she could hold her newborn child
    Paternity was unknown
 ...

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In a time past there was a little girl,
and though quite sad she liked to swirl and twirl;
she lived with Grandma in an attic...

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YEW TREE LODGE - Story poem 

When I was young we had a local witch, or so they said.
Meg Reid at Yew Tree Lodge. That’s...

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Many years ago,
a simple kiss made her glow.
Love was everywhere,
sweet flowers filled the air.
That day there was no snow,
the warm sand covered a toe.
Her blue...

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My Grandmother's House!
That country-styled house of yesteryear has gone so fast now a sweet memory of times gone away from me, You could smell the...

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How did Esma ever get so beautiful? I asked her grandmother.
The rest of their family was as attractive as possum roadkill.
Just lucky I guess she...

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Lois stepped out of the cover of 1922
Go away! She told me. I am having a smoke.
Her confidence permeated the room.
She had her feet on...

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I stare at my sixty-eight-year-old grandmother in disbelief.
You got a parrot, Grandma?
She nods, pleased.
Do you have any idea how long a parrot lives?
I hope he...

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Don't know it's beginning;
but it was a house before
becoming a HOME. Concrete block
house with Four large rooms. Don't
know how that house departed; but
at its heyday,...

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great grandma Suzette loved cows,
her house was decorated in a variety of bovines.
Jersey cows, milk cows, angus cows, dairy cows,
her living room was filled with...

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My husband had a childhood friend named Bogey Higgins.
Bogey Higgins was there on a daily basis for him when he was four.
He appeared when his...

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