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Great Aunt Poems - Poems about Great Aunt


Premium Member joyless great aunt Heather
in the worst shape ever my great Aunt Heather usually under the weather good thoughts? Never. Resigned to gloom forever. no joy and not clever. Focuses on bad news and weather. I am sorry for Aunt Heather....

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Categories: great aunt, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Great Aunt Ada
Great Aunt Ada not thought of her for years she made me laugh till I cried real tears fascinated by her talk never wanting her to go her every sentence finished with like and that you know hidden under the table her delicious visiting days mentally counting each use of her phrase as she gossiped away about him and her and so and so just...

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Categories: great aunt, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Exotic Great Aunt Maude Dresses With Flair
Great Aunt Maude had a bejeweled flair With red and blue rhinestones in her hair Black fluffy coat resembling grizzly bear We could never outguess what she would wear Her glitzy outfits were worn with care Silver sequined gowns, shoulders often bare She entices old men on the town square All could easily be lured to her lair. Other ensembles could never compare Her...

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Categories: great aunt, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Great Aunt Edda and Me
Great Aunt Edda was super friendly when I first arrived. Hugging and kissing me, holding me a bit too long. I was pushing away, because her perfume was overwhelming. I could not breathe, thought I would die in a coma of smelly old woman. She held tight, with the grip of an alligator’s jaw. When we got home, I begged...

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Categories: great aunt, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Learning From Great Aunt Ruth
She opened her cantankerous mouth and out came the truth There was nothing not honest about my clever Aunt Ruth The whats-its and fruts-its were scared of her though. Especially terrified that she was way off in the know. She would not hesitate to give her opinions on zebras and milk. Her ideas were her own, and they did not...

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Categories: great aunt, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



The Great Aunt
Your parents gave me the news at Wilton's Music Hall a place of joy and drunkenness Laurel and Hardy, Hetty King, Marie Lloyd and now A Great Aunt. A figure of jest, jeers and laughter what fun, what fun. A great Aunt - fast track aging I shall buy a lavender shawl and another for you pink or blue. We shall wrap ourselves...

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Categories: great aunt, baby, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Listening To Great Great Aunt Tula
I want to know everything about you, I said. She began talking, until I was green in my head. I had opened up the floodgates of a woman who’d been dead. I was the first person in fifty years who had stupidly said Let me know everything. I am glad to hear about your life. Now I understood more why...

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Categories: great aunt, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Bawdy Great Aunt Norma Bea
She was the bawdiest gal, they said. Her eyes were green, her hair was red. There were rumors of course She rode nude on her pet horse But we never knew her, for she was long dead. You’re luckier for it, they told me. She lived to be age eighty-three She had a hankering For all kinds of pankering She was my Great-Aunt...

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Categories: great aunt, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Amos Great Aunt P's Magical Dog
My Great Great Aunt Prissy had a magical dog. She never needed friends but she did have a blog. Her acquaintances were thrilled with her pix Of a talking dog with costumes so thick She would put hilarious captions under the blog Stating the words came from her magical dog A border collie with a...

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Categories: great aunt, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Great Aunt
Sometimes my Aunt and Uncle would visit us I guess my Aunt was close to four hundred pounds If you care about staying in this old world Try not to be in her seat when she sits down! I knew that she'd be there when I got out of school When home I said, "Look Auntie at this A I...

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Categories: great aunt, emotions, family, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member What My Great Aunt Taught Me
She was my father's aunt which made her my great aunt. ...

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Categories: great aunt, family, relationship, religious,
Form: Narrative
I'M a Great Aunt
I just found out that I'm a great aunt, he was born just yesterday I need to see him, that's all I want. I haven't met him yet he's two months premature, I hope to have him in my life with friends and family, he'll truly endure. I can't wait to hold him in my loving arms, I hope when he grows up he'll be filled...

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Categories: great aunt, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

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