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Calls My NameThe orb calls to me, beckons breast beat,
blood in veins permeates, face red with heat,
as I asphyxiate, am dominated, reach climax.
Each time lustful, more powerful, sensual.
I crave this fix, my only reason to exist,
addicted to...
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Categories:
grandfather, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
Love Not BloodThe shadow cast by twilight's breath,
A tale transpire, of life and death.
A refuge boy, adrift and torn,
From distant lands, in agony borne.
To Italy's shores, he finds his way,
Where ancient mutters softly sway.
Betwixt the olive groves,...
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Categories:
boy, caregiving, family, grandfather,
Form: Epic
age is over-ratedAge is over rated
I went from cute and cuddly
To terribly two
In the flip of a calendar
From being inquisitive
To being nosey
From pre-teen
To A TEENAGER
Meandered
Through the military
Into construction
And against the Vegas spread
Married
And became a father
AGE
That sly bastard
Has...
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Categories:
age, grandfather, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...
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Categories:
grandfather, abuse, age, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
German Potato SaladThe grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate.
A real cheapskate.
One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book.
Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.”
It was written for a 7 year old child, and I was...
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Categories:
grandfather, memory,
Form: Free verse
granpas storiesgrandpa is the best story teller
we like it when he goes off book
I cannot quit yawning
But I want to miss nothing
because his tales are that good...
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Categories:
grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Schooldays OverThe 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. and by God
did he dig. there is a dignity
in breaking...
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Categories:
appreciation, grandfather, ireland, men,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Children's Poem VIIIChildren's Poems VII
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sailing to My Grandfather, for George Hurt
by Michael R. Burch
This distance between us
—this vast sea
of...
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Categories:
grandfather, child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
NumberedI am not the nightlight, nor am I the monster under my bed that my father would tell me to fear. I never feared the unknown, just reality. Daunting, inexplicable reality. Reality was the shadow...
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Categories:
angst, child abuse, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Ties that Bind~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
German
descendant
I am
ties
bind me
to
'Deutschland'
ethereal
threads...
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Categories:
family, grandfather, relationship,
Form: Monoku
A secret weddingThey carried on in secret,
pretending not to care,
then organised the wedding,
not one of the family were there,
mum cried in the kitchen,
the news was hard to bear,
dad had lost his temper,
his choice words hung in the...
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Categories:
family, father, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
My sweet precious Little OneSleep now and dream my preconscious sweet little one
For the gifted life and future is yours
To grow with vigour and splendidly blossom
Under the ripening life giving sun
For the summer of my youth
had bloomed...
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Categories:
grandfather, age, blessing, celebration, child,
Form: Free verse
PetalsI wonder if flowers feel themselves slowly dying
Bathing in the bright,
A rosy lemon violet smile,
How soon shall that wither and fall?
A blown Watercolour world,
Standing tall and striking,
How can the world be anything but
sweet...
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Categories:
death, feelings, grandfather, loss,
Form: Free verse
Bragging about Cute GranddaughterMy granddaughter is the cutest girl in Texas.
Maybe even in the whole southeast of the USA.
She was the most boastful grandma we met that day.
And we are all grandmas, with our hair of gray.
If I...
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Categories:
grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
ON THE DAY WHEN SHE WAS BORN
Growing up…as her family celebrated her birthday…it did not matter where…
She always noticed her grandpa seemed to be the happiest person there.
On her birthday he would dance and sing…his voice would fill the space…
He would...
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Categories:
granddaughter, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
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