Rec | POETRY BY GRANDMA

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Grandma has been taking writing classes in her retirement and just had her first poetry booklet published! 👏🏼👏🏼 This poem is about the passing of a neighbour her retirement village...

@_webchat

Feb 15, 2024

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photograph your grandma as much as you can

Grandma passed away last week at 96, what a life! She loved wearing raver shades which made a pleasure to photograph.

@colornoise

Apr 18, 2024

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taking the long way home

I always take the winding two lane mountain road home from work, it’s 8 minutes longer and so much prettier than the interstate. I see longhorn cows, sheep, goats, fluorescent red sugar maples. Yesterday I took a trip to visit my grandmothers grave with my mother and my 101 year old grandpa. Over a century later, he still remembers every old road and scenic back way to get around, who lived in what house, where they worked, who were friends, enemies, and lovers. He told me stories about every nook and cranny in that tiny town nestled among the Blue Ridge. Building the church on the corner of the graveyard and using popcorn in the mortar which got so hot it popped. Exploring the flour mill with his friends which today is a miniature museum of the town history. How he and his fellow boy scouts used buckets and shovels to help fight the raging fire that spread across the mountain range. He showed me the railroad his father was a pipefitter on and the few blocks he walked to work, the corner their little dog would wait dutifully for his whistle to come running after hearing the work bell every evening. He sang me the song about catfish they used to sing while bathing in the calm river in the summer months, the same river that claimed the life of his brother in law. I miss the city and our friends, but I know we have so much time to make our own stories in the decades to come. I feel so blessed that I have him in my life and to be living again in my hometown to hear these stories and so many others. I am so grateful that he gets to spend time with my husband and celebrate the joining of our families. If you’re lucky enough to have a grandparent or any elder in your life, give them a call or pay them a visit and let them tell you stories, even the ones you’ve heard before. Ask questions about what it was like when they were your age and tell them how much you love them.

@worldonfire

Nov 2, 2024

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i dont necessarily recommend this

living with your grandmother for any parasocial bitch that could possibly gaf and knows about niche internet celebs like me:) i took the semester off because of my brain and im living w my grandmother in the city in the smallest state of the world. my grandmother is loud and asks me uncomfortable questions but Im going to blame it on her age and not get angry she has so little time they were talking abt alzeimhers meds at dinner and I really hope I don’t get it the man there was talking about his pastrami parties where they all get around the table and pick add the fresh peppery pastrami sizzling out of the oven and how his father used to make pastrami in Brooklyn and that he had a pastrami business anyway an elderly woman just explained to me her peace and acceptance towards her own death If I go I go she said thinking why some people can go and be all peace and noncommittal what luck and privilege! to sacrifice your body and time to ur kids and ur husband and ur work and still have enough to have a country and community that loves you to be seen as worth peace even in death