Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A mother saw a little boy
A father saw a son
A daughter saw a daddy’s strength
That she could lean upon
A son’s eyes saw a trusted friend
A pal to look up to
Each member of our family
Saw a different you
But every time that our eyes met
As only lover’s can
I know that I’m the only one
Who really saw [...]
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry, Remembering Mother on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today as I went off to work on the bus
I started to think about Mother and us
Of the way that she’d died and her funeral when
We all went together and stood in the Crem
Then, as I remembered that horrible day
I started imagining what she would say
If she rose from her coffin and hovered above
To look [...]
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Innkeeper sat listening
To the shepherd as he spoke
He thought the story so bizarre
It surely was a joke
The shepherds told of angels,
Of stars and mighty kings
A baby born to rule the world
And other mystic things
He said the child was sent from God
To save the world from sin
That Princes, Pharaohs, Queens and Kings
Would bow their knee [...]
