Extract from a poem written for a wedding:
Let's be happy for Rowan and Simon,
At the start of a joyful new life,
For their health and their happiness always,
And new ventures as husband and wife.
And today is the day that we're thinking
Of their friendship that's lasted for years,
For the curries they've shared in their thousands-
'Til they've almost come out of their ears!.....
Extract lines to celebrate Jenny and Mike's engagement:
Before I met you
I was empty.
All shriveled up
Like a withered balloon.
Now you fill me
Full of light.
And I bounce skywards,
Complete.
Opening lines for Winnie's funeral, from her husband Val:
Today on the day of your funeral,
I remember the first day we met,
When the past turned in to our future,
And we never looked back in regret.
You were my hope and my joy and my nesting,
And my living and breathing and resting….
Extract lines when the relationship was difficult!
Sun shines,
But does it shine?
It seemed to shine,
When you were mine.
Wind howls,
Howling gale,
Can it work,
Or will it fail?
Frost burns,
Burning frost.
Is it true...
That all is lost?
Extract lines from a nonsense poem for a child's birthday:
There were two jolly ladies who lived on the moor,
In a squeaky old farmhouse with a creaky old door,
One was called Milly, the other was Win,
They had a pink spotty pig and a dog with a chin.
They were happy and cheery and never got weary,
They called one another 'my deary deary'.....
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