Follow your dream

Follow your dream
wherever it leads
don't be distracted
by less worthy needs...

Shelter it, nourish it,
help it to grow
Let your heart hold it down deep
where dreams go.

Follow your dream
pursue it with haste
Life is too precious,
too fleeting to waste...

Be faithful, be loyal,
then all your life through
the dreams that you follow
will keep coming true.

Written by Larry Chugges - not me. I'm hopeless at poetry. Dad's the poet in our family. He writes a poem for every grandchild's birthday and its reading forms a large part of the enjoyment and traditions of our family. Once he wrote this poem when I was wondering what we should call baby number four.

NAME CALLING

'What's in a name', old Shakespeare said.
'A rose seen in a garden bed
would smell as sweet upon your nose
if called a weed and not a rose.'

But name a child if you are able
with a careful chosen label
one it can display with pride
(Not one it wants to change and hide).

If by chance you had a girlie
You may choose to call it Shirley
Kate or Mary-Ann sounds nice
Judy, Jill or Eurydice.

A boy will need a lot of thought
perhaps you'll name him for some sport
Like Norman, Bradman or by golly
Even after our King Wally!

'What's in a name' so said the Bard.
Parents have to think quite hard.
Just put the names into a hat
pull one out ... and call him that!

He signs his work: Grannles 1990.

For son number four's 19th birthday, he wrote:

Recession Blues

The finance experts will confess
The world is in an awful mess
Recession that we can't ignore
Stock Exchanges through the floor.

We're down the drain, there is no doubt
Who can we get to help us out?
Cash is short and banks are busted
Politicians can't be trusted.

Then someone said, 'Now, here's a name
David Marley knows the game
Economics he is good at,
Formulae and stuff like that.'

He'll set us on a course that's best.
Because he passed his recent test.
At nineteen he's a finance smarty
Enough of that ... Let's have a party !!!

Grannles 13/9/09.