"Snakes-and-Families and Happy Ladders.
And Easy Hobbi-Games for Little Engineers,
complete with instructions.
Oh, easy for Leonardo!"
by Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
Welsh poet, writer, and reader
My Haiku for the Family
I'll try to write a
Haiku for the Family
Once upon a time
The mother, the dad
Two big kids, three little kids,
Then a new baby
Sunflowers in Kansas
Then Idaho, home of spuds
Show us Missouri
Few Acres, our farm
We could walk safely to school
Ah, the American Dream
"A little sparrow
Could not fall unnoticed Lord
By thee." Our first prayer
On to St. Louis
For a subdivision life
We passed through the Arch
(not the golden ones)
Gateway to the west Across
the Wide Missouri
Our oldest brother
A hero in Viet Nam
Plus, he wrote haiku . . .
That made sense to me
About our favorite sandwich
Titled "The Salmon":
"Bravely leaping falls
For love. They'll never call you
Chicken of the Sea" . . .
In a white notebook
Left behind when he grew up
But I cherished it
Big sister could sing
Took us everywhere with her
She loved the Beatles
When she was younger
She called us "grills and kids"
Her words for girls and boys
If I was sick, she
Held my head when I threw up
Always there for me
Us four little kids
Little sister and brother
Twin brother and me
Born a Gemini
With a real twin, my brother
What's the connection?
"Love ya like a sis"
She wrote that to make me laugh
Well, we are sisters
The Little Baby
Jesus of our family
We adored him so
Childhood Games: Happy
Families, Snakes and Ladders
Monopoly Life
Why me, Oh Goddess?
Naturally curly, frizzy
What big hair you have
Ready to grow up
We each pick a way to go
What would we find there?
Boyfriend in high school
Touching but not forever
Time to walk away
Boyfriend in college
Oops, that was a big mistake
How to extricate?
Finished school at last
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
The Ideal Husband
Inordinately
Realistic, said the quiz, yet
A true romantic
Remember that dream
A gentleman and scholar
From far far away?
Santa once brought me
Boy Doll with a big blond head
Then my two real boys
Looked just like that doll
But animated, not ours
They have their own plans
Another passage
Mid-life-crisis-empty-nest
Now it all makes sense
What keeps you going?
Obligation, holidays
Curiosity
Every day a new surprise!
SIX KIDS NOW
MY - NESS
"My parents, my husband, my brother, my sister . . .
I delight in being here on earth
For one more moment, with them, here on earth,
To celebrate our tiny, tiny my-ness."
Polish poet, translator, Nobel Prize Winner
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