Nana Poems - Poems about Nana

I never noticed your age, creeping up but never reflected in your face. Your voice still warms and soothes me. "Nana's here!" Was my war cry, and now my children's. I'm not jealous, more of...Read the rest...

She promised we would see again, The trailing night was a restrain. She wanted to see me some years ago, Couldn’t see her even to say hello. Raging hearts were yet to be pacified, Her late coming wasn't yet justified. She...Read the rest...

In sharing my thoughts about Nana... Where do I even begin? Her smile that lit up every room? Her sparkle? Her mischievous grin? Her rib cracking hugs have been mentioned a lot By the friends who she mutually adored. Many felt...Read the rest...

You used to say that pizza always sucks once you’ve had your last slice you’d grab the best sneer to mimic all those moments we couldn’t box in would have your forehead slipping into eternity by stroking the surface of...Read the rest...

i don't feel like i belong here ill never get used to this world or maybe this world will never get used to me i was birthed from a generation of misunderstood women screaming in each others ears, conveying...Read the rest...

My Grandmother’s Baking Pans I remember peering through Nana’s broken window countless times on my way to St. Augustine’s Girls’ School in St. George. But that day felt different. As I watched the black birds pecking...Read the rest...

When I became a nana, On this date, ten years ago, There were so many things I didn’t Know I didn’t know. Like how I’d feel to hold my grandson, Singing him to sleep, Or how my love for him would...Read the rest...

A V.I.P, Our Queen you see. There will never be anyone else quite like her. Always dressed in her Absolute best, nothing more and nothing less. Her absolute favourite was M&S. Not a hair out of place, or...Read the rest...

One eye was green, the other one brown, with a mouth that never knew a frown. If her world was turned upside down, she always knew she would turn it around. My Nana.. A better hostess there couldn't be. She accomodated...Read the rest...

Schools are closed for Veterans’ Day So Henry, here at home, Requested that he have a chance To write my daily poem. He commandeered my notebook And began to neatly write, Resulting in a poem so cool It filled me with delight. He...Read the rest...

Have you ever seen bullfrog green jump across a Lilly pad? Did you ever see gold moth bathing in a moonshine bath? Do you watch as teal raindrops bless and baptize the stream? Will you hear the wood...Read the rest...

When you meet another person and your lives are intertwined you don’t think much about the memories that person will leave behind… You’re too busy enjoying this roller coaster of life you’re riding on to think what your...Read the rest...

Never met my Nana... She died before my birth Always wished to meet her, And all that she was worth. The most beautiful woman I’ve ever viewed in snaps, Undeniably strong and for so long Through the worst mishaps I believe she knew...Read the rest...

Relationships with grandkids Are controlled by mom and dad And time with them fulfills a dream I didn’t know I had. For hours that we spend are not Like any other time – Exhausting, yes, but precious And delightfully sublime. Yet...Read the rest...

I'm in the decade before the decade she left the world, and my world.... The world did not mark it, the world did not miss her (any more than it will miss me) but my world does--my world of sun-gold...Read the rest...