Today I am Thirty
A child gawky and scared.
Puny and tousled head
Stockings and ribbons gay
Were the style of the day
Then one sees a growing girl
Caught in the maddening whirl
Finishing the town grade school
Where they teach the golden rule
Adolescent time draws nigh
My – how time does fly
Soon I’ll have my span of years
Bathed in sunshine and sad tears
A woman happy – then sad
Some times good, some times bad
A woman thankful, indeed.
To have good friends – in need
Today I am thirty and wise
Thirty! Young maturity sighs
Thirty seems so old – so dear
The turning point is here.
Thirty is the prime of life
Time to overcome all strife
After all is said and done
Thirty is so very young.
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When It's Time for Lights Out
When it’s time for lights out
Children have all said goodnight.
Seems like the nights silence shouts
Is everyone all right?
Now is the time you rest
Lay your cares aside.
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Tired Shoes
When all is quiet and asleep
I take a look around
The family is in slumber deep
And no one makes a sound.
And then what’s this I find
A bunch of tired shoes I see
It seems they just don’t mind
Where their shoes will be
One reposes by the radio
It seems very fast asleep
It seems it cannot go
For it’s all over in a heap
Some are scattered in the hall
They are black, brown, and dun
These tired shoes so very small
I love and treasure every one.
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The Cactus
A cactus in a lonely spot,
On pleasure bent one day,
Pulled up his roots from out the sand
And slowly walked away.
He visited his cactus friends
And thought his journey fine;
So he kept on traveling
Now, he’s a porcupine!
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Why
Sometimes I wonder why
I miss you so
Sometimes I often cry
After you go
Why does it happen to me?
Why am I the one
Why don’t you let me be
Go and have your fun.
Why suffer all along?
Why grieve each day thru?
Why does it seem wrong
Yes? Everything we do.
Why don’t we just forget
Let bygones be bygones
Act like we’ve never met,
Heal our hurts with songs
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Two Friends
There are two people fine;
A Mr and Mrs I know,
I’m glad they’re fren’s O mine –
Yes – Henry and Ruth Matrow.
They are friends indeed;
They are people grand.
And their friends “in need”
They’ll give a helping hand.
They’ve been wed twenty years.
And they have one son,
Of course there’s been tears
Mixed in with their fun.
And in all kinds of weather
“If God’s will be done”
Let them live together
And always be as one.
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Fall
Mother nature has spilled
Her paint box again,
The colors have filled
The horizon like rain.
The leaves are like a rainbow,
They’re beautiful indeed
As they flutter and flow
Gracefully down to earth
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Memory
I had one small glimpse of
heaven through an opening
in the sky;
One tiny peek at paradise
to fashion my heart’s
dream by.
Perhaps if you had seen
it too, it might have
opened wide & showered
all its blessings through
or let us pass inside...
But you didn’t and I guess
I mustn’t really mind it
while one can lose a
paradise, there must be
two to find it;
(one & one make two but
two alone make heaven)
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Memories
I often wonder why it seems
That time and memory flies,
Yet they come back in dreams;
Each time I close my eyes.
Some I’d like to forget;
Cause they hurt me so.
But why does a regret
Make me feel so low?
The memories that I adore;
Are cheerful and sweet too.
I wish I could have more
For they are all of you.
So let me dream a while
And live in memory, gone;
For each one brings a smile
That lasts till another dawn.
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I Have a Different Feeling Today
I have a different feeling today
I find myself lost in thought
My nature has had many moods
One minute I’m sad, next I’m gay
Then I think of what I bought
Yesterday – all the rich foods
Maybe these have got me down
Everything seems to disagree
Things that were right seem wrong
Not even a trip to town
Would seem much fun to me
Don’t seem to appreciate a song
Now here is the reason why
I’ve cried and my mind has tarried
Wonder why moms are so queer
My son has waved us goodbye
And gone off and got married
And got me a daughter dear.
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