Come On In, The Senility Is Fine

People live forever in Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and Tampa, But you don't have to live forever to become a grampa. The entrance requirements for grampahood are comparatively mild, You only have to live until your child has a child. From that point on you start looking both ways over your shoulder, Because sometimes you feel thirty years younger and sometimes thirty years older. Now you begin to realize who it was that reached the height of imbecility, It was whoever said that grandparents have all the fun and none of

The Moose

For Grace Bulmer Bowers From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea twice a day and takes the herrings long rides,

Friendship

Friendship Friendship is love, Without friendship love means nothing! Without friendship love is empty… Without friendship love is boring...! Friendship means sharing… People learn to share from friendship, Share everything they have in life,

On The Amtrak From Boston To New York City

The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is over two hundred years old, ' as she points out the window past me into what she has been taught. I have learned little more about American history during my few days back East than what I expected and far less of what we should all know of the tribal stories

I Woke Up This Morning

I woke up this morning and I was mourning weary and broken my life burnin' down to ashes and smokin' and I frowned and looked around and I saw my bedroom cluttered with all those keepsakes from the seashore and the doll you sent from Vietnam and the dream catchers we made in mountain meadow years and years ago

Hugging The Jukebox

On an island the soft hue of memory, moss green, kerosene yellow, drifting, mingling in the Caribbean Sea, a six-year-old named Alfred learns all the words to all the songs on his grandparents’ jukebox, and sings them. To learn the words is not so hard. Many barmaids and teenagers have done as well. But to sing as Alfred sings— how can a giant whale live in the small pool of his chest?

Curriculum Vitae

1992 1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea. 2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into confetti. A loaf of bread cost a million marks. Of course I do not remember this. 3) Parents and grandparents hovered around me. The world I lived in had a soft voice and no claws.

! A Zimbabwean Asks A Question

O Great Spirit, You who in Your form of the Chapungu, the great eagle with sharper eye than any aeroplane, watches over us and knows all things; who even descends from your great circles of flight over our beautiful land of stone and earth and tree to show a child lost in the bush the way back to the village and to home, please show us, too, the way back home, to You.

Refrigerator, 1957

More like a vault -- you pull the handle out and on the shelves: not a lot, and what there is (a boiled potato in a bag, a chicken carcass under foil) looking dispirited, drained, mugged. This is not a place to go in hope or hunger. But, just to the right of the middle of the middle door shelf, on fire, a lit-from-within red, heart red, sexual red, wet neon red,

Sweet Family Of Divine Grace

Twisting back to time old memory we see, Love builds heaven at home love is the key. Sea of emotion floats in waves of joy light, Father is in first from left is root of us right. Bright future shines again by Divine's grace, Deep thought and meditation make bright face. Family, family, this world is family of love,

Life And Death.

I know, or I think I know, where I was born. New Plymouth, a city with two sprawling cemeteries, where I found my grandparents' gravestones at last, but they were covered in gray lichen and moss. The kindly sexton said she would spray the gravestones and I will go back to see them cleaned and clarified. My grandparents were always there for me. My grandfather taught me table manners, sternly.

Salut Au Monde

O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next! Each answering all--each sharing the earth with all. What widens within you, Walt Whitman? What waves and soils exuding? What climes? what persons and lands are here? Who are the infants? some playing, some slumbering?

Leaflets From My Life - My Father's First Letter On Life & Lotus

My dear father, Who was determined to educate me well, To the best of his ability. Remained throughout my life, A Guardian Angel! I was sixteen then, I was to travel with my Dad from Cochin to Coimbatore To graduate in English Literature. But fate intervened.

A Boy In Hope

There is a place called Hope, Arkansas Where a little boy grew up No one ever dreamed that one day His name would be on a special cup At first he was raised by grandparents They did the best they could To give this little boy all their love As all good grandparents would

Thank You, Mom

Thank You Mom-for holding me in your loving arms every time I cried. Thank You Mom-for changing my diaper and singing me to sleep. Thank You Mom-for holding my hand as you walked me onto the bus my first day of school. Thank You Mom-for trudging through the snow each winter to watch me perform in the school play. Thank You Mom-for cooking my favorite dinner the night I struck out to end the game. Thank You Mom-for calling to say "I love you" the night I slept over Aunt Stephanie's house.

! ! The Poet's Significant Other - For Mary And Todd

On the shelf above the crackling fire, the day’s work over, shadows swaying and flickering across the room, in the firelight’s glow; here is love abiding On the shelf above the crackling fire a few slim books, some of them poetry, some of them signed; open them and the world spills out tumbles laughing and crying, shouting like children home from school with stories;

The Child And The Mariner

A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that Jesus petted when a child; Their faith was never draped by Doubt: to them Death was a rainbow in Eternity, That promised everlasting brightness soon. An old seafaring man was he; a rough Old man, but kind; and hairy, like the nut Full of sweet milk. All day on shore he watched The winds for sailors' wives, and told what ships

Limerick- Keen Observation

My neighbor's little son is so smart In a write up on Grandparents, he wrote "They never seem to hurry, Any time, can tell a story Before sleep, they take their teeth and gums out"

A Brief Introduction To My Thoughts (I'M Smiling, Darling, Not Whining)

Hi. The name is Lou. Born in the land of the new moon, raised in the Pearl of the Orient. My Grandparents as my Parents, My Parents as my Grandparents. An outcast in the family, treated like dirt, seen as a microbe. Indie kid with an emo flare, Teenage Angst mixed with cofee,

(323) True Innocence

A precious child, my little grand-daughter, full of chuckles, love and great laughter. Filled with innocence through and through, with lots of hugs and kisses too. I know proud grandparents will all agree, the love we receive is precious and free. They have no motives, no deep held secrets. Holding on to us tight, cradled in our arms filling us with a calm of their innocent charms.