Category Archives: parenting

all is right

Posted on October 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

covers are filled
with tired children
pillows hold heads
with dreams in flight
beds are carrying
their precious cargo
gently through
a peaceful night
set adrift
on sleep’s vast ocean
all are well
and all is right

jwturner
10.10.10

lost

Posted on January 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

just when i think i can see
when i think i’ve caught a glimpse
of a familiar landmark
a clue to where i should turn next
it’s disappears
it simply vanishes
into the shadows of doubt
that surround me in your absence

i look around for a friendly face
someone i could trust to guide me
but everyone feels like a stranger
even the image in the mirror
stares back at me, like a child
and the children riding with me
are simply counting the days
till you return

i’m lost without you

jwturner
1/9/2010

my solemn spot

Posted on April 7, 2008 | 7 comments

I found a spot
where the kids are not.
The time I’ve got
is not a lot.
But on this pot
a moment’s bought
to sit and jot
a passing thought
before I’m caught
before this spot
my solemn spot
is brought to not
by chance or plot
by a screaming horde
of tiny tots.

jwturner
4/6/2008

written entirely in the bathroom

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Posted in children, humor, parenting, Poetry

breakfast laughter

Posted on June 22, 2007 | 7 comments

woke from sleeping
youngest leading
morning greeting
coffee’s beeping
mouths need feeding
family seating
smiles are leaping
laughter seeping
joy in heaping
hands are sweeping
clock is creaping
times like these
are fast and fleeting

jwturner
6/22/2007

listening to the kids laugh at breakfast

8:10-8:16 am

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Posted in children, parenting, Poetry