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Tag: Grandparents

Fate, time, or: FaceTime

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 ben Alexander41 Comments

A gogyohka raised an only child across the ocean from loving grandparents never [not once!] imagining such a fate was awaiting my future children too

Posted in PoetryTagged Boops, Childhood, Creative Writing, Family, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Love, Mama, Parenthood, Poem, Poetry

Grandmother, or: Life’s meaning

June 5, 2021June 4, 2021 ben Alexander26 Comments

so much grandmother adoration mutual so much life's meaning

Posted in PoetryTagged Boops, Creative Writing, Family, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Haiku, Love, Mama, Poem, Poetry, Senryu

In loving memory of my Papa

Alexander Bogomolny z”l (1948-2018)

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