<whispers> Over here! World Poetry Day contest this way..

Haiku

Into winter sky
The light of our lantern ascends
Explodes into love

This just reminds me so much of one of those magic moments of childhood - it was my DS's birthday and my DGS and I sent up one of those sky lanterns into the dark sky, to his delight. Just before it extinguished it flared up and he looked up at me with such a smile that my heart felt it would burst.

Wow! Thanks!
I'll type in my epic then!
It's about the same length as the Ancient Mariner!
Ok?

Hush little baby,Granny's on the net
Trying to say how you're the best baby yet.
You stagger to her side and your face lights up with glee
And there's nothing half as nice as her grandchild on her knee.
Your arms around her neck and your head upon her chest - and she knows that you truly are the very ,very best.

I'll spare you

Big brown eyes that plead to me
Please give money, that I may live
Thin brown legs, that twist in pain
Must I beg for food again?

Big blue eyes that smile at me
Our children play in a land so fair
Healthy gay and strong are they
They learn at school and food they share

Think about the desert springs
From which no water gushes forth
The earth is barren,cracked and dry
The little children wail and cry
With hunger pains and twisted limbs

The contrast is too great I fear
All the young ones should be fed
Not just children of the west
All gods children should be dear
To us,whom fortunes have been blest
We should give that they might live.

Galen that is great.

To My Grandchildren

When I was young my Nan was fun but seemed so very old,
It paid to mind your Ps and Qs and do as you were told,
She passed on words of wisdom I remember to this day
But life was harder then and there was little time for play.

I wonder what she’d think about my modern granny’s life,
Mother, daughter, grandmother and not forgetting…..wife,
Laughing, crying, comforting, and needing to be strong
While helping you to learn respect and realise right from wrong.

If I’m not there beside you, you will have my love instead
To guide you through the challenges of stormy times ahead.
I want you to remember as you face life’s rocky ride
That those who’ve gone before you will be looking down with pride.

Vanity took hold of me when my granson was announced,
And all of a sudden my wrinkles seem more pronounced.
We all in retrospect can't see what's in our heart,
And my little button and I will never be apart.

cari does that mean the goal posts have moved and the 5 line rule has been abandoned now? Wish you'd decided that last Friday!! [rather put-out emoticon]

That's GN

Just seen [Cari's] previous post at 12.48 so it is true - bit early for complete concentration here in Oz! [still a bit miffed emoticon]

What's an ice cream got to do with it?

They used to have a poetry thread on Mumsnet. For homemade poetry. That was nice.

Cari with all these cravings, is there something we should know?

just wondered!

Well done all three of you!

Good Heavens!

Well done Gally. It is lovely. As are the other two.

Beautiful poems - congrats. Gally such lovely words you wrote. Has your daughter read it? What a special poem to have written about you.