the Emotional Spectrum of Having Siblings

Having siblings is great - best friends that you grow up with. That said growing up with a brother and 3 sisters did introduce me to a broad emotional spectrum - everything from love, joy, laughter to envy, anger, resentment and sorrow. In many of my poems I mention the feelings though not the sibling - but remembering the motivation for writing these poems - it diffenately came from the source of my very close family

Why do we envy one another?

Jealous of the talents of our brother

Can we not look at ourselves?

To see the ways in which we can help

If we do this we will see

How much happier everyone will be

Tic ‘84

I pity you not

You took that step

The road you walk

Only leads to death

You had the choice

You turned your back

No you feel

What joy you lack

The load you carry

Is fear, distrust

Riches you have

It is worthless as rust

No happiness to buy

No peace to find

Contentment is lost

There is no more time

Complain not of your life

You walked that way

You could have knelt

Bowed down to pray

Tic ‘88

A façade, a farce

Is the face I show

My heart, my thoughts

Knows not where to go

I’m isolated, lonely

Wanting no one to see

I hide and I act

So no one will pity me

Tic ‘2001

Blank is my life

In a rut I have sunk

I am nobody’s wife

I am worthless, just junk

What good do I do?

Whom do I please?

My friends are so few

Just who would miss me?

The family is great

But I am locked-up inside

Who will break down the gate?

Where I am trying to hide

Tic ‘91

Memories From Our Past J

Memories of made of sight, smell and song

I hope this music brings happy ones along.

Our father enjoying the Bugs Bunny and Road Runner show

The rabbit torturing the singer with “Figaro”.

Our mother always waking us with a morning tune

Starting a day with song – It could not be ruined.

A Rose Garden before the Art Linkletter show,

Coca Cola commercials, Jungle Book song – the way to go.

You dressed in green for the Canadian centennial

Daddy driving us hither and yon – I remember it still.

The Rolf Harris show – songs from Down Under;

You were our ‘gypsy’ with the traveling gene.

“Fernando” - our father like songs from the modern scene?

Simon & Garfunkel – we’d sing on our traveling days

John Denver made you want to fly away.

Harold Cawston using “Dust in the Wind”

For a lecture on what life is if lived in sin.

Singing songs in our lives brought so much to enjoy

From Texas, Germany, the East, the world songs we employed 

To build our dreams, the closeness of our family love.

I wish you all the ‘star wishes’ from above

Tic 2010

(this one was written for my sisters birthday last year)

Someone’s upset

I wonder why

Do they reflect

The weeping sky?

You, who’s uptight,

There is a bright side

Clouds move from sight

Then sorrow will die

Tic 84

I go away

Far away

I disappear

With a tear

Of sorrow sad

Because I am bad

So I hide away

In my mind to stay

Boo hoo!!

What a flop

Cannot plant a crop

I am a sop

‘Thanks a lot!’

Tic ‘90

Think not of little tales

You like to spread yon hill and dale

For they bring but sorrow and grief

Hurting those of whom you speak

Though those stories may be true

They need not be told by you!

Someone might take the time

To drop around some silly line

About something you have done

Then you become the hurting one

When you want to spread what you have heard

Think of who may be hurt by those words

Tic ‘90

Joy is not something that just happens,

One has to take the time to create it.

Tic ‘82 (even in families)

What did you say?

You’re on your way

So this is good-bye

Time for feelings to die

But a lonely heart

Causes tears to start

They’ll mention your name

And your memory remains

Tic ‘85

Death we die

Weep we cry

Lost we lose

Despair we chose

Life we live

Love we give

Joy we laugh

Hope we grasp

Tic ‘90

I know that this is quite a few poems but 30+ years of writing gives one time to explore a large emotional spectrum :)

Tic ‘87