Auntie Poems

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
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Through every nook and every cranny
The wind blew in on poor old Granny
Around her knees, into each ear
(And up nose as well, I fear)
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Sitting in front of the fire, Auntie Flo's reciting a story,
it's one about her first Christmas as a newly wed,
the same one she broadcasts every year,
but no one is listening.
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On the fair green hills of Rio
There grows a fearful stain:
The poor who come to Rio
And can't go home again.
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Dirty game

Blaring voice and strong signal came
Message from boy aging 9 for playing game
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Father and Mother, and Me,
Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
And every one else is They.
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It is time for me to go, mother; I am going.
When in the paling darkness of the lonely dawn you stretch out
your arms for your baby in the bed, I shall say, "Baby is not
here!"-mother, I am going.
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My Uncle’s
old blue van

gone to seed now
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A Girl’s Reverie

Mother says, ‘Be in no hurry,
Marriage oft means care and worry.’
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Hi, when you are near towards us
In this amazing horizon,
Light has scattered in the atmosphere,
Your original face is creamed
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CRÚISCÍN...CÍSTÍN BAISE
(LITTLE JUG...LITTLE PALM CAKE*)

Auntie Mary’s
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My daddy calls me Will-dog.
PaPa calls me chief.
I’m always baby brother
to my sister - oh, good grief!
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He wouldn’t come out
of the closet

though she shouted
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You have suffered auntie long enough,
You were brave strong and tough.
The battle you fought was long and hard,
But it’s okay auntie let go and let God.
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The younger sister
Of the second wife
Of my dear friend
Of forty-five years
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O God - or may I call you Lord? –
I remember when I was a child,
You were my best friend, one who knew me
better than I knew myself;
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MY muvver's ist the nicest one
'At ever lived wiz folks;
She lets you have ze mostes' fun,
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I remembered I'd promised my Aunt Adele before she died
that I'd get in touch with her family in Oz
just to put matters to rest, since they'd not spoken for years
since she upped and went off with this Pom
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You have suffered auntie long enough, You were brave strong and tough.
The battle you fought was long and hard, But it's okay auntie let go and let God.
It has hurt all of us when you left that day, It left me broken hearted with nothing to say.
I don't want to be selfish say please don't leave,
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With Auntie(Warwickshire)

We drove - only to have a look at you - just the few miles down the Fosse Way to the farm where you'd been born but, with our cheque book at the ready, we knew you'd be hard to resist. Named you then and there after Gerald Durrell's TV pet - ‘Roger' seemed a perfect fit. So, after your Mummy Sunshine's farewell lick (your Daddy being out working sheep)
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The Present, is simple and easy
but chosen with much care

they are so bewildered
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I know of some guy in my hood,
In the streets he had an outlandish legacy,
When he was tripping hard everyone understood,
The drugs he did were no child's play,
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(i)

The sun quite often
jumps over the mountain
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Dear MONA REGINA, A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY….

R-regrets she constantly has
E-end of all are the disappointments her side
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I ain't preaching, dear girl
'cause I know you, you'll curl
either your lips or your eyebrow
but, I only wanna congratulate you,
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ALL MY LIFE, I´VE WANTED OUT.
Do you know what it means to me?
It is something that life´s all about,
it is something that helps me be.

Oh, how hard it is in our climate,
which is the grey of the fog of distrust.
I´am taking some cakes to my auntie
through a forest of all kinds of lust.

There I meet some nymphs and some gnomes,
young girls of indecent ways
as well as some stricter aromas -
stern ladies of former days.

Old auntie - she eats what I´ve brought,
and this time no Wolf comes around.
Fragile flowers reside in my thoughts,
and my love is a borderless ground.

ALL MY LIFE, I´VE WANTED OUT.
Do you know what it means to me?
This, my love, is what nature´s about,
and it finally makes us see.
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Bob's my Auntie now
And Auntie Jayne is John
My sister, Fred, is such a cow
My brother's still called Ron,
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You know you're an auntie
when your heart fill with joy
you know you're her auntie
when she only fell comfortably
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