Grandma Years Ago

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)



I have laid my head,
Right by the window
Lying in my bed;
Grandma years ago.

Where grandma would pray
In her rocking chair,
Every single day,
Every single prayer.

With those beads that's why
In her rocking chair,
Forty-eight years I
Remember her there.

Prayer Divine Mercy,
Grandson is praying.
Grandma I can see,
Rosary praying.

About this poem

48 years later I'm praying there in that place of my grandmother

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Written on February 24, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 24, 2024

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Scheme abab cDcd eDed fgfg
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 332
Words 71
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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