a page of life

Looking at people on my Fb page
I see faces that have vanished
This year and the other years
But unless you delete them
They live on in the realm
Of imagination and become
Beacons of yesterday’s lights
- a memory book of your life -!

40 years ago

An unsure wench

Forty years hence

Gave birth to her first

A beautiful boy

Who was not her toy

But an absolute joy

The boy shot up fast

Time flew did not last

A bud who did burst

Into a great man

Not truly a ham

A dude giving a damn

About his family here

Creating a life where

Sharene and their kids

Were his second to none

His Aussie brood shone

Like his eyes undone

Proud parents of Dave

Wishing you a shave

Of life and joys lit

A gold chandelier

A true cavalier

Hurrah for you dear

Aussie revisited

Six times I have been a visitor
to a place many call home and hearth
Six times of family events
of grand and smaller affairs
three kids arriving - weddings
birthdays and holidays
a death after a meeting of minds
winter - summer spring and autumn
lives parallel to everyone else
upsides downsides just
here where I feel at home
yet this is not mine but
everyday's anybody's living
could happen to somebody
with an open inquisitive mind.
Seventh time coming up
to one who loves unwaveringly

Generation gap

When I was your age
then....
do kids pay attention
nah
maybe when I am dead
then
do kids pay attention
too late
what did grandma say?

Hurt feelings

Screaming kids - arguing
trivial stuff - tiny objections
but they are healthy and alive

So does it matter if they kill
each other - seemingly?

Somehow sibling rivalry
will survive this too

Yet the adults get upset
and they are steaming
much longer than the kids

They have moved on
whereas the adults linger

Cold haiku

White wintry tree stems
Shimmering blue icicles
Portray earth’s design