May Your Heart be Wild and Free
This week’s choice is in honour of my granddaughter Rosie, born this week. I wish her and her parents Tom and Charl a lifetime of love and happiness.
It Might Be Instamatic Flu
This week’s choice is “Sick” by Shel Silverstein, to mark the couple of days this week I’ve been feeling rotten. I’m feeling better now, thank goodness!
Warm and Snug Inside
This week’s choice is the lyrics to “Morningtown Ride” by Malvina Reynolds, and it is dedicated to dear Charlotte and Tom and their first child, due in November.
Our Teacher Never Does That
With the end of the school year comes a poem to celebrate teachers and the uphill struggle they face when standing in for another.
Seven Million Whys
This poem is chosen in honour of my nephew Matthew’s birthday which was yesterday. It is another by Rudyard Kipling: “I Keep Six Honest Serving Men”.
The True Gift Never Leaves
This week’s poem is chosen for friends who have welcomed a new baby into their family this week and for someone special to me who works with new mothers and mothers-to-be.
I Was Being Good (Honest)
A more cheerful choice this week as Brian Patten’s “Dear Mum” describes some mysterious happenings at home.
“Are We Nearly There Yet?”
This week’s poem continues the humorous theme as Ogden Nash gives us the benefit of his experiences of fatherhood especially as they relate to journeys by car.
The Children’s Hour
Today’s poems are about children in honour of my new nephew Harry Christopher Willing, and also for all my friends who are juggling their jobs, their children and their home life in these difficult times.