My Children Poems

Whose normal – your normal or my normal I ask her.
She is shocked.
Believing we all have the same normal.

My children roller skated in the house, I tell her.
They had swings in the basement. We had pink goats.
My normal might not...Read More

My children are growing up fast,
I remember as if it were only yesterday that I was able to hold every one of them in my arms.
Holidays and birthdays have come and gone.
Years passing by slipping thru my finger tips.
Like the...Read More

crumbling amber papyrus
whispers underfoot
mother where are you

Skeletal bone veins
stretching out alone
where have my children gone...Read More

Born alone,
A lonely life,
Perhaps
Lonely at death
despite the family.
Cost of living is so high 
That you are loved
For what you can give
Not for what 
you might take.
My wish list
Does not include 
Items of physical 
pleasures, 
but such things
As love, laughter
and affection.
I...Read More

I'm shopping for Santa.
He's not good with money.
He'll use up my credit
and laugh like it's funny.

He's broken my spirit
and says it's for good.
For the gift that keeps giving
he says that I should.

But it isn't my money
he comes for each year.
When...Read More

So, man evolved from an ape
Then took over Earth’s landscape.
Soon was head of the food chain
All others treated with distain
 
Man went on to rule the Earth
But soon became more than his worth
So was destroyed by floods and war
And forgot...Read More

I used to make fun of my dad’s age…saying with loving youthful vigor
“How come you’re getting shorter but your ears and nose are so much bigger?”

Oh, Dad would try to make a witty comeback…but usually it would bomb.
(makes me wonder...Read More

They’re one thing today and another tomorrow
There must be a book about life I could borrow
The pages within it, I’m hoping could teach
How I’ve got four children... but that’s one of each

Our Daisy and Sue play with little Bob’s toys
And...Read More

The future  waits
  somewhere off on the sidelines.
Others came here
  that seems so long ago
  when the future was assured
but now...
  where is this world going?
Hold on to those dreams
  the impossibility becoming possible
it...Read More

Just yesterday
I was crying
Leaving home for the 1st grade
7th, 10th, 12th
Just yesterday
I threw that cap in the air
Bright eyed
Facing the world

Wow, who is that girl
My wife
The mother of my children
Just yesterday
Our babies were born
Responsibilities
Doing what had to be done
For my...Read More

THROUGH A WILDERNESS OF GRASSY PLAINS,  
WHERE WAR TOOK PLACE 
IN A WORLD OF PAINS. 

  OUR COUNTRY MEN, OUR FATHERS, SONS & FRIENDS, 
 SENT TO BATTLE IN WAR, 
& WHICH BECAME,
THEIR EACH DEATHLY ENDS. 

THEY WHOM...Read More

Mr fly
wold you
like to pull my
arms off
I think we deserve
Mr rabbit
here
put glue in
each eyeballs too
Rare best served
am i
i whispered to the herd
Mr pig came quickly
must of overheard
Mr chicken couldn't give a 
At last protect my children cluck cluck
Mr dog handed...Read More

“I Never Danced The Tango”


I have more than a few
Regrets in life…

I wish I’d loved my children…
Much more,
Much longer,
Much stronger.

I would wish to be
Much wiser,
Much gentler,
Much more compassionate.

I have worked on my failings
With some success, 
And forgave myself
For what I...Read More

Unneeded invites for Thanksgiving Day,
Drafts packed table orbs family buffet,
All arranged for this harmonious time,
Relations grace this exalted pastime.

Year after year, the newborns multiply,
Added tables, chairs, and appended rooms,
Through Heaven's wings, beloved souls now fly,
Shifts to calm talks, those gone...Read More

I was brought up quite religiously…
I was taught heaven was somewhere in the sky.
Where if a person was good down here on Earth, 
there was a place for them on high.

A place where we will walk among the softness of...Read More

Odin:
The crimes of the father 
Reach out to the son you yourself has agreed to that 
Old as you are.
Loki: 
Then you Odin are truly cursed
Even more so than me
And I had never agreed to that when it came
To any...Read More

Loki:
Sigyn and Angrboda know their wyrd well
Even the far seeing eye of odin 
Does even the all seeing eye have its faults?
The curse of knowledge or forgetfulness perhaps 
Angrboda is born of the blood of the volva 
She knows well...Read More

Loki:Short is your victory: for fenris, my son,
will rip your jaws and rule a new world.
Come, let us end it! Ages we've waited,
we who were old when the worlds were still young."
My child hela,shall lead an army of the dead...Read More

I no longer desire to be your slave 
I no longer desire to see your body 
I no longer desire heart break 
I no longer desire sensual passion 

I no longer ignore my emotions 
I no longer ignore my children...Read More

Christmas Cookies Cut like Ice

You brought presents for the kids. 
They hesitated at the door, I watched. 
I had to ask myself, why?
I could not help it. 
(…)

You brought a broken doll in a fancy dress, 
A train without track....Read More

Mr fly
wold you
like to pull my
arms off
I think we deserve
Mr rabbit
here
put glue in
each eyeballs too
Rare best served
am i
i whispered to the herd
Mr pig came quickly
must of overheard
Mr chicken couldn't give a 
At last protect my children cluck cluck
Mr dog handed...Read More

Keep in mind
That now, everything is fine 
Theres no grudge or anger on this end 
For I had asked the lord to repent
Not just for me but, for you too
Because thou shall not know what thou do

I have put the...Read More

Winter rhapsody, the snowflakes  ascending slowly,.
Reaching the rooftops and houses.

Winter rhapsody, pedestrians in their winter clothes,
Warm  caps  snowsuits ,coats and boots,

Winter rhapsody, a horse drawn sleigh riding through the pioneer village,
You could hear the jingle bells.

Winter rhapsody...Read More

The Shift 
(Shifty)

The man is evil. 
You know who I am talking about. 
He has put America, under the bus. 
He is using our money, to take down… us. 
How is that okay?

The world has changed. 
People in control that...Read More

The Drop

I put tissue in my purse.
Lens cleaners for glasses,
a half handful of suckers.
a kid’s book, colors and even…
a doll,  and small train set.

I am not new at my post. 
I am a mother and my children made it,...Read More