Best Grandad Poems

I, to the pasture's green could run, 
and fly a kite beside the sun,
but choose, I do, to linger still, 
among the dirt, what is my frill?

Low, be it may, to sink my feet, 
into the slimy, pungent peat, 
but with my grandad by my...

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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 soar across the sky,
Birdman was his name,
But now he can no longer fly,
It’s really such a shame.  

His cape...

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My grandad was there when I was little;
My grandad would always make me giggle;
Telling jokes, stories and tales, my grandads love has never failed.

In Alder Street or at the flat, my grandads love, it was just that.

The market stall, to buy and sell. I'd always...

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All avenues are amphibious arenas
Bubbles belch-burst, bitter Bacchanalian bombs
Clouds' cast-iron crescendo creates cold cantankerous caricatures
Drenched - darkness descending, daylight dying, disappearing duskwards
Every eye echoing every eye, emotional evidence enveloped
Fake furs, fashionable fools, firm friends fleeing flowing firmament
Garrulous girls giggle, grizzled gangsters get going, gravity gyroscopes...

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As I rush past the dastardly faces of those in pain,
I begin to ponder if it were possible to die here,
Surrounded by disease and loneliness the decrepit weep under those in control,
There daily dose of detrimental disruption,
The toxins streaming through their inadequate veins,
I slowly emerge...

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Ten stops down the line

That's where the place is 

The place I call mine.

Ten stops to go

'Till I get home and let today go.

An old lady sits opposite me

Smiles and says she's looking forward to a hot cup of tea.

This pleasure of her day makes...

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You know when you are growing up

The stages you go through

Make you the way you are

They help to make you...YOU

The people who you deal with

Whether family or your friends

Are very influential

And they're with you 'till the end

But little things they tell you

Might  get on...

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he worked on a farm ,he was as pleasent as a man could be ,he was very muchd 
cared and loved for by everyone and me ,i remember my grandad write back from 
when he first sat me upon his knee .my first bike i...

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Grandad was the best
He was better than the rest.
When he passed
My heart turned to glass.
Now he's up in heaven
I haven't seen him since I was eleven
Its so hard without him 
I don't understand how I'm coping.
I suppose it's for you grandad.
I Love You!
Weather he is...

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One day you dropped down dead,
Your heart stopped,
Dad says " you were the apple of his eye",
I wish I had known you,
My grandad,

Grandma never remarried,
You where her one true love,
You couldn't be replaced,
I often think of you,
Wondering what we would have done
My grandad,

Your together again...

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head cradled on folded arms
as a young boy I’d sit rapt 
in the tales told by an old man
as he drew pictures at our dinner table

no bragging, not at all 
just remembrances 
of arid deserts and tuscan sunsets
heaving seas and emptying bellies 

he saw the...

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Skirting church on Puig de Missa,
then down the slope towards the river,
St Eularia's Rui, with path that winds on to the sea.
Past the smelly goats, where poking little
fingers get nibbled, and goat-dribbled
through the fence. 

Billy stands high on outcast fridge and
watches babies butt their silly...

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Written on 7/27/2021
By Gail R DeBole
Updated on 8/17/2021

My granddad’s five-dollar bill in hand
Was blown by a breeze through farmland.
 Our dog, King, “saved the Abe”
Fetched the bill straight away
To return it to my grandad’s hand.


(True Story that happened in the 1960s)...

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For you were such a gentleman 
your smile sincere and true
For your hair was always in it's place
your funniness shone through

For the love you had of sport's
anything would do
football, tennis and many more
will always remind me of you

Your love of a great war film
Your love...

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Hallie
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you light up every room 
If I’m down you lift all my gloom
Your beautiful little face 
Would brighten up any place 
That...

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