Grandfather Nostalgia Poems

While cleaning out my garage yesterday 
I FOUND A SHOVEL, BROKE, RUSTED AND OLD 
To think, that I had almost threw it away 
I couldn't,...

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Night bloomed into smoky waves
And silent memories
Dance in front of my closed eyes,
Allowing me no rest, no jump into slumber

The lyrics of the song playing...

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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...

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Dad

I can't believe
Your here old man
You made it through the rough..

I love your
Laugh and chuckle..
For me that is enough.

But boy you've had a lifetime
And crammed...

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I suppose everybody, at a certain age,
Wishes they talked to parents more,
Wished they learnt a few details of
The many generations  gone before.
Oh I traced...

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Grandfather's house, knocked to the ground - to dust:
The windows wept when the bulldozer came
Timeworn and dirty and wheezing black smoke,
Just like the drab mills...

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A legend.
A story.
Gold.
The fever.
My true love is finding,
History of true relics of the past.
My professor found an old map,
In his mother's belongings,
After her passing.
Laughing he...

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Wistful is the heart, silent the walls
    where the gambols of youth echoed.
A return tale’s sentimental journey
  inside the gates of...

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Christmas puts wonder and joy into my heart.
I turn five when I see bubble lights on a Christmas tree. 
I turn ten when I roll...

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THE SERGEANT MAJOR

I'll always remember Granpa Shreeve
No collar,braces and rolled up sleeves,
Leather buckled trouser belt;
Number forty-six with Gran he dwelt.

A curled up moustache,
His manner stiff...

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It has been staying with us under the same roof
In the down rack of the wardrobe, lying aloof
Unnoticed even by granny and quite obscure
But with...

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He's a techno-infant
  in old man's clothes
Old-fashioned tools
  are what he knows

A wizard with a hammer
  a genius with a saw
Makes a...

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in billowing pipe smoke
he laughed like santa
then went to heaven

i was five



posted on March 9, 2021...

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I remember sitting on my grand dad’s knee,
when he told me about the good old days.

How he courted my grandmother with glee,
He fell in love...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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