Wearing cowgirl hat,
Holding her grandfather's hand
-overlooking dam.
Copyright 2010
Showing posts with label Grandparents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grandparents. Show all posts
Monday, June 21, 2010
Saturday, April 11, 2009
NaPoWriMo Poem #11
Games with Grandpa
By Edward S. Gault
I don’t know when his wife died
I was always told it was long before I was born.
He always seemed so ancient
His skin lined with the years he had lived.
Brown spots mottled his scalp
And blended into what hair he had left.
The important thing was not to be lured
Into thinking he was senile,
That would have been a grave mistake.
For example, in chess,
He would take your King, then your Queen,
Before you knew they were gone.
Game over!
Then he was a checker shark.
He had ways of jumping over all
Our pieces-in one move
In Dominoes we didn’t stand a chance.
The man had a century on us all,
Even after all the Cigars.
That must have been his secret,
The cigars.
Copyright@2009
By Edward S. Gault
I don’t know when his wife died
I was always told it was long before I was born.
He always seemed so ancient
His skin lined with the years he had lived.
Brown spots mottled his scalp
And blended into what hair he had left.
The important thing was not to be lured
Into thinking he was senile,
That would have been a grave mistake.
For example, in chess,
He would take your King, then your Queen,
Before you knew they were gone.
Game over!
Then he was a checker shark.
He had ways of jumping over all
Our pieces-in one move
In Dominoes we didn’t stand a chance.
The man had a century on us all,
Even after all the Cigars.
That must have been his secret,
The cigars.
Copyright@2009
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Fun And Games
Old men play poker,Drinking beer and smoke cigars
-talk of grandchildren.
Copyright 2008
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