Posts Tagged ‘Everyday living’
Kids
Questions on the Text. Why do you think this poem says more about the parents than the children? Does it have a message about the parent-child relationship? How does the balance of subject matter in the verses help us to appreciate this message? Put yourself in the child’s position, choose three words to describe how…
Read MoreCount that day lost
If you sit down at set of sunAnd count the acts that you have done,And, counting, findOne self-denying deed, one wordThat eased the heart of him who heard, One glance most kindThat fell like sunshine where it went —Then you may count that day well spent. …
Read MoreTeen sons
Teen sons "I’m a mosher" he grunts "Is that why you don’t wash your hair? It looks glorious when it’s clean." "Huh", he says, "what do I care?" His brother is under the duvet we won’t see or hear from him ’til noon. There’s no point in asking when he’ll rise he turns over and…
Read MoreHome
How brightly glistening in the sunThe woodland ivy plays!While yonder beeches from their barksReflect his silver rays. That sun surveys a lovely sceneFrom softly smiling skies;And wildly through unnumbered treesThe wind of winter sighs: Now loud, it thunders o’er my head,And now in distance dies.But give me back my barren hillsWhere colder…
Read MoreRich and Poor
George Peterson has written this poignant poem showing the stark comparison between the ‘war’ of everyday struggles and, for some, the ‘war’ to simply survive each day. One man’s greed another man’s life One man’s lust another man’s life Political enemies neighbouring enemies War of words war of steel One Country’s…
Read MoreMoving on
Divested of my children, I have an empty nest. There is space within my home but constriction in my chest. There is quiet all around me, my home is clean and neat. Everything’s done that needs to be, yet things feel incomplete. I have an ocean of time for me, I can use…
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