Singing water running swiftly
Flowing downward to the valley
Spraying off intrusive stone
Cataract plunging to the bottom
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An extract from a poem written for my grandchildren to Brahms Lullaby
Sleep; little mice sleep
Mother will watch over you
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Policemen kindly stay away
Unless of course you wish to pay.
Hey ho mother runs a knocking shop.
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Four years on the dole
Four years in the queue
The shops full of goods I can’t buy
Or bring myself to steal
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When mother Eve
Lay with proto man
To beget us all
Did either consider
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The grass dried up and blew away
the ground is cracked and bare
we can't get renewal on our loan
who'd be a winging farmer.
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'Get him out, ' Mum said
ten am on Sunday and it's time
three nephews and two nieces
never needed much urging
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i Mother, Mother shining bright
how did you stand the terrors of the night
pressed down to fit a symmetry.
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Four tens of years plus one
Doh Ray to Me and go
Oblivious to all but inner tune
Through minefields on the way
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TURUTURU MOKAI PA*
Liam now four
Plays happily by the stream
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