Ray Mather Poems

The door flung open with an almighty bang
And into the class strode Beth and her gang
Giggling and gassing like a gaggle of geese;
A volley of sound destroying the peace.
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Spiders are my biggest fear,
I cannot stand it when they’re near.
I jump upon my bed and shout
Whenever spiders are about.
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What fun! It was great!
You should have seen her face!
She didn’t half look a mess...
There was egg and flour all over the place.
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Then
You were gone
Leaving only that
Space
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William!
Willie! !
Hey, Will! Stand still!
Why don’t you do as you’re told?
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Words
Words
Can mean so much
Yet so very little
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Someone I know
Dislikes me, think,
Presses me hard
For “Just one more drink...”
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Who’s a little beauty, then?
Cootchie! Cootchie! Coo!
Doesn’t she hold her head up well?
And doesn’t she look like you?
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And so we talked of this and that,
Of oven grease and cooking fat
And who spilt what upon the mat
And left that stain.
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Newborn baby steaming;
Brought suddenly to life,
He enters screaming.
Toddler, starts to walk,
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