Short Grandmothers Poems

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Premium Member Innocent and Softer Time

meadow larks melodic songs
uplift the most hardened hearts
reminding us of grandmothers
hollyhocks, and bleeding hearts
an innocent and softer time.


Wildlife 34

Wildlife 34

A talented musical linnet,
Played tunes on her grandmothers spinet,
But once, at a loss,
She said "Who gives a toss!"
"It's fun playing music, Well i'nnit?"
© Tim Riding  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

I Am Half and Half

My Great Grandmothers Funeral in England
Her name: Martha Franklin 

I am half and half
Half of my roots come from England
The other half American

Blending them together I am Eng-Glow-Amer
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.

Festival of Light

Crackers in sky form sparkles, loud
As firework forms a fog of smoke
Houses gleam, with ribbons of light
Grandmothers chant prayers in temples
Endless firecrackers outside, even after midnight

Premium Member A Tweak From Grandma

An old fountain pen; restored to its former glory. Parchment awaits its clothing of poetry; my grandmothers words appear; not mine. Another ancestral visit; she’s tweaking me.
Form: Sijo


Premium Member Jester

Jokes in her wheelhouse
Enthusiasm oozing out of her pores
She entertains children and grandmothers
The laughter runs up and down the walls
Excitement because she will be back today
Restoring our faith in joy and love
joy

Premium Member Bohemian Woman

Bohemian women have creative, loving, whimsical ways
Floating with delight and joy through most of their days
Most do not take seriously injuries or meannesses of others
These women make the utmost best moms and grandmothers
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member WAR

old men deciding
sending young to die
grandmothers crying
destroying families
killing people’s dreams

devastation
terrible horrors
sanctioned murders
innocents die

no one wins
upheaval
strife and stress

skirmish
battle

war
war

Tick Tick Tick Boom! ! ! !

I run in the park but time seems like I'm trapped in the 
Old grnd father clock in my grandmothers house.
Tick Tick Tick BOOM !

It seems like love can't find it's way to my heart
But this emptyness is as slow as I can see.
Tick Tick Tick BOOM !
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Grandmothers Prayer

Dear God
as i kneel hear and pray
help me lead them in a way
though there expectations may fall
let there hearts stand tall
for that is their connection
to go in the right direction
though the path may seem troubled
they will always find their way
Amen

Grandmothers

The sweetest things I've ever known
Is both of my grandmothers' love
I'm still their baby though I'm grown
To hear their voice would be enough

To count the times I think of you
Would be seventy times seven
When it is my dream come true
I'm seeing you both in Heaven
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member spider tattoo on his forehead

He is seventeen
Wears his hair long, in a ponytail, it does not look clean.
There are piercings in his lip and his ears.
He wears a spider tattoo on his forehead.
His mother is horrified.
His father is having a fit.
Both grandmothers laugh at them.
Loving their grandson no matter how he looks.

Premium Member hillbilly hoe down

hllbilly hoe down
hard piece of straw in each mouth
bibbed overall dance

banjos and fiddles
potluck of fancy desserts
arkansas ham hocks

hound dogs on the porch
homemade corn liquor from gramps
square dancing parents

loud bluegrass music
pink taffy pull for the kids
toothless grandmothers
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The Yarn

The yarn slips through fingers
gracefully, gratefully, 
unformed realities arrive 
and meld with each twist.

Minds remember hearts
grandmothers teach grand children
life from the start.

Crochet hooks and yarn
make squares , building blocks
for blankets and pot holder.
Building blocks of life.

Eap-Grandmothers

eap-GRANDMOTHERS

A grandmother loves grandsons:

in the womb, at childbirth

and the times sad or with mirth

by the soul without girth 

in the love, with no dearth

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
     January 12, 2010


Inspired by Poetry Soup member contest:  RHYME TIME 	
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Form: List

Paint Your Nails

Paint your finger and toe nails.
So pretty, it makes you feel.
So completely womanized. Working
Or playing, saying I'm not lurking
In the world of being plain Jane.
Feeling good about myself it makes,
Just as it does, putting on my face.
Grandmothers did just this before me.
Pretty women, themselves being free.
Form: Rhyme

Happy Mothers Day

On this beautiful Sunday morning
To all the mothers and grandmothers
From each and every land

Mothers are all made special
In each and every way

So I'm sending you a teddy bear
And A boutique of roses

On this special mothers day

From Me & My Family
Wishing You A Very Special
Mothers day

On this Sunday Morning

Grandmothers Recipe

Remember the recipes you gave to me?
Of dreams and hopes and reveries?
Of April orchards by the sea?
Red apples under the harvest moon
June bugs on petals of sunflower sisters
Bending together in the whispering breeze
leafy arms,prickly kisses
Lady bugs flying home?
     I need you more than ever
don't  lay your hands down  now
Hold them out to me.
Form:

Premium Member Deranged Gnome

Deranged gnome is fancied up for Halloween
He is wearing goblin colors, said my cousin, Sheen.
He looks frightening, I said. Is he a little mean?
A temper on this guy, I actually have never seen.

If he goes outside to trick-or-treat.
Will we hear children screaming on the street?
He looks like he is ready to eat
Pets, grandmothers, and a child’s feet.
Form: Rhyme

I Have Seen

I have seen the government promise
I have seen babies raped
I have seen headless men lying on the road
I have seen mothers battered for daughter's pregnancy
I have seen old men dead on the road from hunger
I have seen grandmothers dead in a flooded house
I have seen mothers hacked by machetes by sons
I have seen and lost hope in people 
I have seen life
Form: Bio

Human

I’m not a whole person, I don’t think I ever was
I’m a master at losing;
Cause I’ve never won
Robbed of a mother, and a father imprisoned
A grandfather angry, at any chance given -
With few that loved me, or who showed it I guess
There was only one woman, who strayed from the rest
Offering me love, a grandmothers touch
My personal savior;
The end of a bet

Premium Member grandmothers hands

the back of my hands are spotted
with brownish red splotches and dashes
they are as wrinkly as a Chinese dog
blue veins are popping up in ugliness
so this is why old women wear gloves!
the same reason they wear scarves around their turkey necks
I was never prepared to get this old
did not realize it was a possibility
until I began wearing my grandmother’s hands
age

Poetry On a Lower East Side Morning

Awakening from "Slavery in Egypt"
I head downstairs to check my e - mail 
and eat a free breakfast 
My stomach satisfied 
I pick up a pen and write an ode 
Poetry grows on the fabled Lower East Side 
Where my grandparents came 
when they fled attacking Cossacks 
and took flight to the USA
and one of my grandmothers 
was in the Emma Lazarus club
Take that, Trump!
Form: Verse

To Grandmother

A Grandmothers love is hard 
To explain

It is made up of joy sacrifice
And pain

A Grandmothers love is patient
And forgiving

And each moment with her
Makes life worth living

A Grandmothers love turns a
House into a home

And her beauty shines like a
Precious stone

A Grandmothers love will
Always touch your soul

A love so gentle Gods gift
To behold
Form: Rhyme

Human

I’m not a whole person, I don’t think I ever was

I’m a master at losing;

Cause I’ve never won

Robbed of a mother, and a father imprisoned

A grandfather angry, at any chance given -

With few who loved me, or who showed it I guess

There was only one woman, who strayed from the rest

Offering me love, a grandmothers touch

My personal savior;

The end of a bet
Form: Rhyme

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