When should you lift a shouting child?
When it's anxious and keen to see
Can you recall being a child?
Once that was you. Long ago, me
Lift a child shoulder-high, higher
Glad it's seen, put it down. Job done?
Better still, build a step, sell it
Share ways to lift with everyone
When we're parents, we're teachers
Both show the world our legacy
Two decades on - gurus, preachers
Gift words, gain immortality.
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Copyright Angela Lansbury 2023
Copying a couplet or single verse would be fair use if you credit the author and first book/website of publication.
Author Angela Lansbury's Biography
Angela Lansbury
is the author of how to books, comic poetry, a serious and humorous speaker,
a speech contest winner, contest judge and language trainer. Her maiden name is
her pen name. Early books include best-sellers Wedding Speeches & Toasts,
and Etiquette For Every Occasion. (Several worst sellers!) Poetry theme
books, on Lulu.com and Amazon, include Poetry Workbook, Writing Poetry For Fun
With Angela, Seriously Funny Poems, Quick Quotations. Latest book: Improve your English (A-Z of
alliteration and rhyme). She contributed
to prose anthologies Fear & Us, Authenticity & Us, Grief & Us
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