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Best Grandparents Poems

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Premium Member October Skies
We are apples growing on our parent's tree, planted by our grandparents from the apples of our great-grandparents ~ author

October skies still reflect in your...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, anniversary, autumn, grandparents,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Don'T Throw Me Away
You look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still...

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Categories: grandparents, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Ballade
The Red Wheelbarrow
The old red wheelbarrow is still standing there
right next to my Grandfather’s fixed rocking chair.
Though neither has moved in a good many years
their presence revives...

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Categories: death, grandparents, happiness, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Special Rose
She sits and rocks, so gently back and forth
Her chin leaning heavily on her chest.
In her hands she cradles, one flat waxed rose
And sighs as...

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Categories: grandparents, lonely, love, old,
Form: Narrative
Grey Wind
**Dedicated to those who preceded us and gave their blood, sweat and tears, so we can have the luxuries they could not**


The wind whispers, the...

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Categories: father, grandparents, mother, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unconditional Love
Like the sun lights up the sky, 
A little girl when she was born, 
She snuggled right into our hearts
With heaven's sparkle in
Her eyes stole...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: granddaughter, grandparents, love, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angels Sing
Angels Sing

I hear them, 
all the time. 
When I pick up my child, 
and hold her close, 
her breath…
Harps; lovely,
faraway, 
and distant.

When I go to...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandparents, angel, christmas, confidence, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red Wheelbarrow
How I loved spending a week of the summer holidays with my grandparents. Gramps would come and pick me up in his old pick- up...

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Categories: childhood, garden, grandparents, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Blowing In the Wind
We’d gather on the old wooden porch
gramps would sit in his rocking chair
with wisps of smoke rising from his cigar

I’d snuggle up to gran 
on...

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Categories: grandparents, memory,
Form: Free verse
My Psw Promise
MY PSW PROMISE
When you first arrived -
Your health was then fading
Your whole world was changing
I promised that I’d see you through.
When you first arrived
Your kids...

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Categories: bereavement, caregiving, death, grandparents,
Form: Rhyme
Seed of Friendship-A Dedication
L-iving in a world of vast 
souls formed from 
another voided world,
E-ntering thru portals 
from their world to earth.
O-ozing spetacular smell 
and wail when the...

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Categories: grandparents, addiction, angel, care, change,
Form: Acrostic
A Very Wise Woman
I was one of many that had the priviledge
to live with my Grandparents.  The lessons
I learned from them will remain with me for
the rest...

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Categories: grandparents,
Form: I do not know?
New Future of the Internet
New Future Of The
Internet


Cable cost are up
too high
You turned to the
internet and so have
I

My Youtube channel
is the way to go
Now I can even make
video shows

I...

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Categories: business, career, film, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
A Poem- Dedicated To Nirvaan
oh nirvaan ! truly dearly you ,
how should i tell you,
how much i love you,
i am your uncle,
you’re my nephew,
thats not all i have to...

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© Rahul Gade  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: children, inspirationalparents, grandparents, parents,
Form: I do not know?
Grandad the Superhero
Grandad The Superhero

My grandad was a superhero,
You would not think it true,
For now he’s old and very slow,
And he only wears one shoe.

He used to...

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Categories: grandparents, 1st grade, child, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs