Grandmother Now And Again Poems

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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You're so varicose vein,
Youth is gone again,
I suppose I'm still lucky,
I found my glasses, you see,
That's as good as it gets today,
Let's hear it for...

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Down to Sleep

Father cups his hand, 
I am inside. 
He breaths upon me, 
anew.

I am comforted. 
I am quiet of spirit. 
The world is on...

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Cake

The box sat on the cabinet, 
waiting for sunshine to come home...
from school. 

When she gets here, 
life will be renewed, 
my heart will dance,...

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Every morning before five
She was bustling around the kitchen
Creating her breakfast of biscuits
Gravy and sides of bacon or sausage
Eggs fried long enough to color
The yellow...

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ENSLAVE US AGAIN!!!
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How slavery unites men-
how chains made us friends.

How the Glossolalia of that tribe-
was learnt by this tribe.

How we shared the same breath-
and the...

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Take me home again
	to when I was a child
	walking down that dirt road to a distant house,
where I grew up
	under my grandmother’s watchful eyes.

Let me...

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Nana awakened from her nap with a smile,
She said ninety-five years is a whole lot of living.
I shook my head and smiled as I agreed.
She...

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Set child, listen to your elder's story                  ...

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I was just trying to remember the past
 trying to remember the good people
 and the bad people,
 that i came across on my way,

i...

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How’s That Again?

Actual newspaper headlines taken from 
http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/headlines.html

Poem constructed by Elton Camp

A headline writer had the following to say:
“Child’s Death Ruins Couple’s Holiday”

The image produced...

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