How are you supposed to act When there is a death in the family Do you just stop and break down Or do you keep on going Do you stop and call To your family and friends Or do you writee down some lines To remember them by This is the question That I’m facing [...]

He said She was his life, Soon they became husband and wife, every thing was perfect, Happy as could be, Great life and a happy family…, The days got shorter and the nights got longer every night together their love grew stronger. Even though they fought, They used every thing they were tought, No matter [...]

My family I love them dearly But they are: Loud Obnoxious Annoying Deaf Blind Cranky Controlling Demanding Spineless Embarrassing And through it all They are my family That loves me Through all my negative attributes So for this I love them My family I love them dearly But they are: Loud Obnoxious Annoying Deaf Blind [...]

Every Christmas we celebrate the same thing Thinking snow and gifts have to always be there Until I realized a new thought to bring That there is much more than care I hope that one-day on Christmas Eve In the year two thousand and forty I’ll be fifty of age not to leave And in [...]

sweet house of memories how precious you are what year is it again no matter porch framed in flowers the bench swing beckons come sit a while stay inside family welcomes smiling in black and white photographs are everywhere everywhere the smell of bread drifts in not by bread alone? four generations I know were [...]

Hinemoa, Tui, Maina, All of them were born together; They are quite an extra special Set of babies–wax and leather. Every day they took an airing; Mummy made them each a bonnet; Two were cherry, one was yellow With a bow of ribbon on it. Really, sometimes we would slap them, For if ever we [...]

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple’s a rose, And the pear is, and so’s The plum, I suppose. The dear only know What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose– But were always a rose. This poem was written/submitted [...]

My banks are all furnished with rags, So thick, even Freddy can’t thin ‘em; I’ve torn up my old money-bags, Having little or nought to put in ‘em. My tradesman are smashing by dozens, But this is all nothing, they say; For bankrupts, since Adam, are cousins, So, it’s all in the family way. My [...]

On he goes, the little one, Bud of the universe, Pediment of life. Setting off somewhere, apparently. Whither away, brisk egg? His mother deposited him on the soil as if he were no more than droppings, And now he scuffles tinily past her as if she were an old rusty tin. A mere obstacle, He [...]

We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather recklessly with funds carefully gathered since grandfather’s time for the purchase of a steam monkey. We had either, by this time, the choice of an electric or gas monkey. The steam monkey is no longer being made, said the monkey merchant. But the family always planned on a [...]