Grandmother Perspective Poems

Breaking news 
the land of the free is now broken 
Our Divided States of America
is turning third-world 
Who let the government 
place their destructive hands...

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THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE OF MY LIFE

Ahhh… I had performed so many characters in my life.
A mother, then a single mother with all its encumbrances
of being...

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Prayers,
sometimes lightly lyrical,
slyly satirical,
self-conscious,
ego-
and anthro-chosen folk
transcendently 
yet personally
individually woke,
and sometimes full embodied
passions in Praise Him!
shout out

Echo in-
voking round resonance
with all Earth's eternal 
regenerating lively
lovely resilience.

Prayers
express...

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i remember
being by the pool
i was no more than ten
my grandmother
was enjoying herself
chatting and laughing
suddenly
i caught
myself thinking

it will be nice
to get to that age
and not...

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The world had caved in on me once again and I counted the pressure

looked outside and felt sad unbalanced restless and torn from myself

Wild winds...

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Sitting in the living room on a rather
chilly winters evening, reading the life
journal of a daughter whose parents, 
Pakistani and Kashmiri both dead when
she was...

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The thought of life on another planet
Held no appeal for Grandma Janet
  But the COVID lockdown
  Made Grandma fret and frown
Masks banned there?...

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WHO AM I 

                     ...

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Thank her, thank her
thank her
She'll say for what
She'll wait for you
anwser
You'll say
Thank you very much
You'll try to find conversation
and work your mind to
speak
You'll say
Ah dah,...

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Have you ever considered
the many cases
where family albums
show strangers' faces?

Some of those faces
may well be your own
standing off in the background
apart and unknown

But don't take...

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acrostic, three quatrains

G - Great women of the Bible I will share,
R - Ruth and Rahab, two women who would wear 
A - ancestry in...

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I HUNG THESE CURTAINS,

I LIVED HERE ONCE,

I'M CERTAIN,

THE FLOORS WERE WAXED,

THE DISHES SHINED,

I RESIDED HERE,

HAPPILY,

FOR QUITE SOME TIME.



MY SOUL SLEEPS UNDER THE WINDOW'S PANE,

THE SINK...

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Why are there stars, Grandma?
     Well, darling. At night, God gets tired
     And before sitting to relax
...

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My grandmother knew me.
My identical twin sister and I would
Stay with her for a week in the summer.
My twin loved cooking, baking, cleaning.
All the boring...

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I always hoped I would grow up to be like you
I felt your arms around me and looked up to you
You were my hero, my...

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