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Grandfather Work Poems

These Grandfather Work poems are examples of Work poems about Grandfather. These are the best examples of Work Grandfather poems written by international poets.


Schooldays Over
The auld fella’s auld fella left the tech
after Ripening for sixteen summers.

Camden-Wagon-Gravity landed a
shovel and a pick at his lonely boots.

‘DIG’. he knew that Language....

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Categories: work, appreciation, grandfather, ireland, men,



Premium Member Three Legged Table
As a child, 
I loved to watch Grandpa build. 
His basement workshop, 
was filled with tools. 
Tools hanging on every wall, 
wood neatly stacked in...

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Categories: work, child, fun, grandfather, love,

Premium Member An Old Shovel
I remember when Grandpa used me everyday,                  ...

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Categories: work, grandfather, old, remember, sky,

Premium Member Senior Production Manager
Senior Production Manager
(Retired at Fifty-six)
Miracle Man
7/14/2023

I never settled for being just equal to the rest,
for that would have made me average at best.
I always went...

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Categories: career, retirement, work,

Premium Member A Tough Taskmaster
Thomas Lawson,
A Tough Taskmaster
Haiku by: Miracle Man
4/9/2023 

My grandfather said,
“never heard of anyone
dying from hard work”.         ...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farm, work,



His Work Tools
His work tools
In a box
My keepsake

The story
He told me
Days gone past

I relate
Even words
Unspoken


January 27, 2023.
Tricube Poetry Contest,
Sara Kendrick....

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Categories: work, grandfather, poetry,

Work In Progress 4
The 2nd reason the eldest remained exempt is someone had to see him as something other than a monster.To testify to his humanity.The remainder sans...

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Categories: work, cinderella, dance,

Work In Progress 3
Your not going to believe this but I forgot that Jeanne Rosemary comes before Robert Earl.Probably because I am mad at her for not trying...

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Categories: work, discrimination, french,

Premium Member Self Improvement
Self Improvement
Haiku: by Miracle Man
12/14/2021

How to get ahead,
means wake up, get up, lace up,
be dependable.


My Grandfather once said
he’d never heard of anyone dying from hard...

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Categories: jobs, work,

The Little Things
There is no match for the little things 
Honest to God
Nothing can bring me more joy 
Than those little things 

A whiff of a scent...

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© Shreya Ln  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: work, god, grandfather, joy, memory,

Premium Member Dragon Stew
On an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose...

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Categories: work, 4th grade, 5th grade,

Premium Member Lessons From Life When Simple
Lessons From Life When Simple
(From my Grandfather)
By: Miracle Man
1/9/2021

My grandparents lived on the farm and had ten children.
This was a time when large families we’re...

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Categories: life, truth, work,

Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Smoke
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts...

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Categories: work, kid, poetry, poets, teen,

Premium Member Tough Times At the North Pole
Tough times have fallen on the North Pole
   COVID-19's shrunk employer payrolls

So, the good Lord's invoked the grandfather clause
   To increase...

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Categories: work, christmas, god, grandfather, money,

Premium Member The Old Scribe
his tired eyes yet sparkled with the love of his craft
a love steeped in awe and fear of its impact
the hunched shoulders hovered o'er each...

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Categories: work, grandfather, grandson, love, words,


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