Best Grandchild Poems
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to start your life anew.
Where e'er you go remember you're my family.
My roots run very deep into the earthly soil.
My centered...
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Categories:
birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
To My GranddaughterI look and ponder, watch you grow in haste
Explore with wonder, new experience taste
No fear encountered as you learn the ropes
Your sails adjusting, full with winds of hope.
But there are moments when the seeds of doubt
Without much warning spread and start to sprout
Then...
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Categories:
grandchild, light, trust,
Form:
Sonnet
Nana's HandsThrough the years they worked their spells
From drawers and cupboards, taking things
That through them, thus, were given wings
And changed to sweetness meant for kings
...
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Categories:
appreciation, food, grandchild, grandmother,
Form:
Rhyme
Loving HelenaThe chair is her home, her universe now
It is all that her many years will allow
Helena’s elegant beauty once shone
Now her mind wanders a world of its own
Age has changed her body but not her heart
Many great stories she’d always impart
To the wide-eyed grandchild she...
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Categories:
family, peopleme, grandchild, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Grandpa*GRANDMA WAITS IN THE GARDEN*
Hi grandpa, it's me again!
Your dentures sit in an open glass above the nightstand
Remember the tears grandma sang before she pass?
The way she looked into your eyes,
Moments before she said goodbye
Grandpa, I found a note from grandma,
She will always...
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Categories:
beautiful, care, death, grandchild,
Form:
Free verse
Dead To Me Means More Alive Than EverBefore I die, I want my grandchildren to know these things.
Believe in yourself and be your own best friend.
No one else can keep your secrets like you can.
And if you do not believe in yourself, it will be difficult for others to.
I want my grandchildren...
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Categories:
grandchild, grandmother,
Form:
Narrative
The Apple Doesn'T Fall Far From the TreeYou can see him now, dirty as a horse
that slipped in the mud, planting petunias
with that infamous shamrock thumb
(Irish from his Pop Appendage from his Mum)
stopping every now - and again -
to breathe deep that fragrance
rich with pheromone nostalgia
just like...
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Categories:
grandchild, adventure, crazy, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
I Love You, Old ManI once had knew a man
Who became older than a dead man
A tired soul, he was.
Looked like he'd never seen a bed
And
His gray hair resembled a cloudy day,
With fog, and his swollen eyes...
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Categories:
age, dad, emotions, grandchild,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer's ChildI lived my best in season of the sun,
those yellow, mellow days when cares are flung
to June’s warm breeze, and childhood is begun,
a field to wander in, and all is young!
I lived my zenith in the summer heat.
Ah, zephyr of sublime and untried heights!
Blue sky,...
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Categories:
life, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
BrodyBrody
I bought two new books for you today my sweet boy.
The Wizard of Oz and the Jungle book should bring joy.
I'm very proud of how wonderfully you read.
As an English scholar, I know you will succeed.
I see your picture in the morning when I rise
As...
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Categories:
grandchild, 2nd grade, books, boy,
Form:
Couplet
FriendsMan loves friends
Babies have toys as friends
Children have peer groups as friends
Young men like making friends
Friends can become spouses
Entrepreneurs have ambitions and dreams
as friends
Stars are friends of the moon
The splendid glow is the friend of sunset
The shore is the friend of the sea
We are...
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Categories:
africa, friend, grandchild, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Empty NestsThose happy, golden years, the children growing up...
great days of joy, some tears, sweet nectar in our cup.
So blessed the three of them had come to fill our life;
each one a special gem...years spent with little strife.
...
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Categories:
children, grandchild, memory,
Form:
Couplet
A Mothers Last Goodbye“Good-bye my daughter dear,” she said
As tears welled up in her eyes
“It’s time for me to go to sleep
This must be no surprise
The good Lord knows my battles
And my health is ailing still
He’s given me so many blessings
I’ve passed them to you in my will
I’m...
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Categories:
grandchild, death, mother, me, love,
Form:
Narrative
Grandma HappyFootsteps on stairs,
little feet pounding, running,
child faces peeking round the kitchen door,
expectancy alive, dancing in their eyes.
They know that love is always here
waiting just for them.
Each one thinks he is favorite;
in his or her own way, it is true.
Each is...
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Categories:
grandchild, grandmother, happiness, happy,
Form:
Free verse
Random Acts of KarmaThe mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him a brand-new fifty-dollar bill. He hadn't seen his granddaughter in...
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Categories:
grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse