An “Advice For New Parents” Limerick

I am no expert on parenting. I have thirty nine years of experience and I know that it is a continuous education, they will always be your babies and John Lennon couldn’t have been any more right – ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.

Memory’s wisdom smiles

In a blue suit that I hated
I threw a flower to the wood
And felt the chill of March around me
By that deep hole where I stood
Fifteen years I’d known him
But his shell was now below
Wondered how I’d manage then
As at the time I didn’t know

Create

Poem by Wendy Norman

It’s warm inside with muted song
My mama purrs this is where you belong
I float and twirl not a care in this world
You dream of me to be unfurled

I cannot see but float and twist
Swooshing waves of fluid to resist
I hear your heart pounding deep
My life depends on this drum beat

Little Light

With all the potential
For becoming spoiled,
Pure at heart she has stayed

A “Raising Children” Limerick

I just had the joyous pleasure of spending a week with my daughter and celebrating her thirty second birthday with her. Though I talk to her several times a week, I had not seen her for two years due to scheduling conflicts and limits on vacation days, etc.

Boy

Boy
Set adrift
In an ocean
Hair and thoughts of flotsam and jetsam,

Boy
Wrapped in olive swaths of silk
Espresso eyes full of woe
A mouth that cannot keep pace
With a mind that has no limits