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Grandmother Elegy Poems

These Grandmother Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Grandmother. These are the best examples of Elegy Grandmother poems written by international poets.


Grocery Store Grief
I look to my right
And there’s a bin of stuffed animals just like the one you bought me
I look to my left
And there’s your favorite...

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Categories: 9th grade, death, funeral,



Elegy to Lost Love
She still comes to me.  
The past opens the door, and I’m flooded.  
I’m drenched with memories of years gone by,  
Strung...

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Categories: elegy, emotions, grandmother, lost love,

Premium Member Elegy to Grams
It's been forever since you went —
To the other side in a heartbeat —
To return the life you've been lent,
Towards the edge of the stellar...

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© I.A. Ryd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grandmother, loss, sad,

Missing Grandma
"The loss of a grandmother is a reminder that life is fleeting. But it is also a reminder that love is eternal."  ~ Gabriel...

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Categories: grandmother, loss, nostalgia,

Premium Member Appalachian Homecoming
You were born here,
Blue Ridge foothills,
spirits of Cherokee in 
Appalachia's olden heart and veins.
Scots-Irish influence of beloved
bluegrass,
moonshine of the drinking kind.

Your parents weren't the responsible
type,
as...

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Categories: 6th grade, 7th grade,



Premium Member The Silver Ship To Heaven- Loss of Family Member


Roberta lived on this earth for so many years!
Was a great mother, wife, and grandmother, too.
A long and fulfilling life with joy, completion and no...

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Categories: death, emotions, family, heaven,

Goodnight My Beloved Grandma
Goodnight My Beloved Grandma (for Elizabeth Ugoeze Nwadinobi)


By Izunna Okafor


As an ocean bleeds unbounded
Troubling the sons it founded
In pathing the ways with tracks
Tears have bathed...

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Categories: death,

Threnody For Alfreda
The celestial light is about to go and escapes;
As dawn enters, and cover it with darkness.
She was able to finish mysteries, with less air to...

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Categories: 8th grade, 9th grade,

Premium Member Eulogy Tribute To My Dear Sister Raven
As the ravens fed Prophet Elijah by the brook
you brought gentle words to nourish our souls.

Like the paintings of Monet, Van Gogh and Degas
Your creative...

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Categories: bereavement, cry, death of

Premium Member Death's Cold Hand
Easter brings back sad memories. 
My mother died on Good Friday.
She was a bible scholar and quoted
Jesus's words every day to us kids.
I remember her...

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Categories: death, grandmother, loss, mother,

Untitled
I can’t ever know what flowers they gave her,
on that brittle coffin,
Because those flowers belonged in the garden she made,
(That after they let grow wild...

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© Jay Yeats  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, eulogy, flower, funeral,

A Life Worth Fighting For Tribute To Dr Angela Farr Griffin
We've all arrived at the point of our 
homecoming and have come to realize
That life can be a stumbling block or
a stepping stone towards the...

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Categories: dedication,

Two Sides of Death
Death was dreaded. 
Rehearsed. 
Experienced. 
Dreaded more. 

Being told, 
Silence. 
Empty. 
Frozen. 

Death. 
The day arrived. 
Surreal. 
Nothing. 

The bond was broken, 
The memories ended,...

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Categories: care, death, eulogy, family,

Premium Member Tribute
It began with her dear husband Yudi
The first Nathan we'd ever met--
  His friendly smile, his charming wit
  Helped my wife and me...

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Categories: friend, grandmother, love, mother,

Sonnet Xxxi Tribute To Grandma
First of all, Grandma left us.
Now Grandma’s gone to be with the Lord
But thank God I know better.

O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where...

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Categories: absence, bereavement, conflict, death,


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