(23 December / Westminster)

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Memories

Remember
when the kids were small
remember
remember
wrong shoes on tiny feet
and parents struggling
to maintain their calm
lace time to their elbows
tick-tock their tongues
at feisty fledglings
ripping ribbons
shredding stitches
howling without tears -
remember
remember
when the kids were small?
Kookaburras seranaded us
from a Eucalyptus jungle -
remember?

April 1997

Submitted: Friday, August 24, 2007
Edited: Thursday, March 31, 2011

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  • john tiong chunghoo (1/27/2008 2:18:00 AM)

    yes, penny, your poems dance their way to people's heart. carry on.

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  • James Niles (9/1/2007 9:36:00 AM)

    You are magic memory, Penny Hemans, somewhere out of the recesses of ancient time.

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