Only on week days when the sunshines
Do I chat to my Evelyn about all times
She has mouthfuls of honey and yogurt
Reading new words in her school book.

What is it to stop and watch the day break
Misty on window frames, dewey in grass
To see a young life take a step into this day
Secure in her treasures the drawing she made.

Love Grandma **

It wasn’t always that you loved me
Sitting on the floor with crossed legs
But now when the tide left driftings
You came to me with your words
And I remembered even in the sky
You wrote my name with stars.

Love Grandma Mary xxxx

‘I am an ideas babe’
That’s what my granddaughter said
She is just five.

Love Grandma xxxxx

Reading to her Ducks and Swans
Remembering our morning chats
Somehow we had grown together
Sharing our likes and questioning.

This child radiated such intensity
I felt her spirit entering my spirit
Yet I knew by ten she would have
Outstripped my imaginative life
Would there still be love to hold.

Love Grandma Mary x

The birds came to visit
Early in the morning
Waiting by the dolphin
And porridge bowl.

There was a Peacock
An Eagle and two Pelicans
A Perigine Falcan, a Macaw
And a nest of baby Birds.

Evelyn ate her breakfast
Read her phonic words
And talked to Grandma
It was a sunny day today.

Love Mary x

Floaty in your flowery dress
Its layered skirts spill out
And climb you do
The wooden slide
Under the ancient tree.

Your feet do add a child’s dance
Strapped sandals in the sun
And all the while your sister plays
Beating her own trunk song
A dream time for the young.

Love Grandma Mary  x

Brave little ducks
Swimming in the water
Brave little ducks
Doing what they oughta.

Along came a swan
A black necked swan
And the little duck
Went quack quack.

Love Grandma xxo

Your learning to read my Evelyn
Its not easy at first
Starting are phonics to find
Then sight words behind
One must look and say
To end the day
And pictures help
The words be spelt
With memorial
Prédiction
A dog and a mat
And sleepy cat.

Love Mary **

Why have your teeth fallen out
And your hair turned grey?,
Said the child with golden locks
And an inquisitive tongue
Which swept around words
And tasted thoughts
Like a juicy vitamin pill.

Her Grandma who was old
But had a mind which curled
Like the scraps of a ponytail
Explained that this is how age is
Changing one like a chameleon
To a different state
They smiled together.


Love Grandma Mary x

When you tumble out of bed
Knickers round your head
You begin to float around
And the ladybird falls down
Onto a floor of soft brown.

Love Mary x

The wonders of a morning
Is watching Evelyn dress
She does it as slow as a feather
Falling from a great Oak tree.

Each item of clothing lifted
From the floor where it rested
Pants, socks t-shirt, pinafore,
Cardigan, shoes, coat.

The show complete
The child ready for school
Shows her shells
From her small collection
Ammonite, cowie, conch and
Waves goodbye.

Love Maryxxx

A little girl sat at breakfast eating
Her cheerios with a straw
She commented about all things
In her upsy downsy voice
The world seemed so colourful
As she smiled at her sock animals
And the plastic mammoth by her plate.

She was nearly always late for school
As there was just too much to say
But daddy and her usually made it
Evelyn loved school but was equally
Happy at home with her family
She drew beautifully images of animals
From a television programme, it helped,
They were so friendly with big eyes.
She was an unusual four year old.

Love Grandma  Mary ***

The little girl with the mop of hair
Floated onto her chair to eat from
Her dolphin bowl the milky cereal
And chewey red vitamin pill.

It was still dull outside and the room
Grey colour. She had to get dressed
For school. Put on her school items.
It took a long time to get ready.

Evelyn talked all through breakfast
So the Cheerios went down slowly
Then to the dressing task for school
Off came her pyjamas with a kick
On went knickers , socks and shirt
Next grey pinafore and red cardigan
She was ready only shoes and coat
A pink light coat as it was Springtime
Warm and blossoms on the trees.

Daddy held hands with Evelyn
As they passed the swing park
The sheds and fields on the way to school
And they talked about all the things
They could imagine about this new day.

Love Grandma xxxx