Nostalgia Mum Poems

No healthy oils
but beef dripping kept
solid in a white enamel 
can with a lid
in a cupboard under
the oven. Reused until
too dark and heavy 
with sediments,...

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Oh what a day in the old, 
The African sun rises, shining bold, 
Father leaves at 5am, to tap palm wine, 
Mother goes to the...

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Thinking of years gone by of my mum
a real friend to me, a real support
always there in my stammering struggle
what would I have done without...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Blimey it’s hot
Though moan I must not
As to see the sun high up above
Evokes wonderful memories of summers gone by
Of weeks in the sunshine and...

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Tired,	
Monday-Friday I have to stay up and wired,
Though sleep is what my heart truly desires,
Through my work I’ll continue to perspire,
For there’s no way to...

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I have a little brother 
And his name is Lee 
I was only 2 years old 
When he joined our family 

As kids we got...

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When I was yet a tiny kid
I cried and yelled and threw tantrums
And to close this noise lid
A story was told me by my mum...

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Grizzled drama

 
A cold dry early autumn enters in the only window
The kingdom of muse does not let me feel loneliness 
as the pain to...

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You used to come home from school 
grab two-handfuls of wooden building blocks 
and take one brooding look at the Lego cities 
I’d carefully constructed....

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Making up dance routines to the top twenty,                 ...

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Birds chirping on a Sunday..
Mother humming and kitchen..
sounds in the background.
It sounds like she's taking
her time making her dish.
Soft chopping,quiet thudding
and gentle mixing sounds. 
Her...

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