When I walked into work today
I switched on the radio and it started to play
Ave Maria
It took me straight back to that time
When a memory was made that will always be mine
You, me and Cath went into town
Our mission to buy my own wedding gown
I wasn’t keen about the whole thing
But the music comes on [...]
Archive for the ‘Family Poetry’ Category
Ave Maria
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The World Of Remembrance
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry, Remembering Mother on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The world of remembrance
A world set apart
A world we first visit with tears
The cost of admission is one broken heart
How painful that world first appears
The world of remembrance
A world of recall
A world full of people who care
With portals of love that are open to all
Built on the memories we share
The world of remembrance
A world full [...]
Sidney Armstrong copyright Catherine Turner
Posted in 1, Family Poetry, Poetry, Tales From Banjo Bay on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The little town of Banjo Bay sits proudly in the cove,
Welcoming her sons home from their toil,
Her harbor filled with laughter, her streets bedecked with love,
A place for growing up and growing old.
The morning sun shines down upon the busy little forge,
Sidney Armstrong at the anvil stands,
The mighty bellows suck and blow, the fiery furnace [...]
The First Time That I Met Her by Glenn Williams
Posted in 1, Family Poetry, Poetry on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I walked around a corner
and there she was,
a prisoner.
Bound in chains invisible
not physical, ethereal.
Yet strong like all deception,
trapped with false devotion.
A prisoner, I left her
and she became my jailer.
Bound to her forever
with love of purest nature,
I turned around a corner
the first time that I met her.
You by Catherine Turner
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 [...]
Thoughts on a Funeral by Catherine Turner
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 [...]
The Innkeeper’s Tale by Catherine Turner
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 [...]
Bloody Hell by Chris Williams
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I want to see my mother’s eyes of blue
I want to see some happy memories too
But though I try and try with all my might
all I ever see is red and white
I want to smell the hops and see the green
I want to conjure up what childhoods mean
but every time I shut my eyes up [...]
Looking Forward by Glenn Williams
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although your age in months
Is but a meagre minus three
I’m writing this to let you know
You mean the world to me
Just thinking of the joy you’ll bring
In all the years to come
Replaces all my winter moans
With glorious summer sun
I want to introduce myself
I’m your Uncle G
And tell you that you’ll always have
A friend right here [...]
Roots and Wings by Chris Williams
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Be their someone to depend on
Make them safe at home
Let them go whenever they need to
Let them search and roam
Love them to the nth degree
Smother them with care
Set them free to soar like angels
Who knows how they’ll fare
Love them for their faults and weakness
Praise them for their skills
You will learn from their endeavour
This is no [...]
