Writing Me Up

Writings by me, for me. Forgive me.

Tag: Family

  • All Gone Now

    All Gone Now

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    Still Here In The Heart happy and smiling old family photographs they are all gone now Photo by Brett Jordan on Pexels.com

  • Goodbye Little Brother

    Goodbye Little Brother

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    Time Just Slips Away We burned my little brother yesterday. It was almost appropriate that he went up that chimney after all those hookey fags. That was what killed him, (the smoking, not the burning). We gave him a good send off. He would have enjoyed it, the silly song at the funeral, the words…

  • The Gone One

    The Gone One

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    Gone But Not Forgotten the sun shines brightly how I wish he could see it I wish he was here Photo by Download a pic Donate a buck! ^ on Pexels.com

  • A Good Man Gone

    A Good Man Gone

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    A Brother Like No Other he was a good man the brother I lost today just the best of us

  • The End Of The Road

    The End Of The Road

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    It Is In Sight yours is a hard road one thing you can be sure of I will walk with you You and me and the big C

  • Here In My Heart

    Here In My Heart

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    Where You Will Always Be you cannot leave me you are still a part of of me right here in my heart Photo by Valentine Angel Fernandez on Pexels.com

  • The Last Goodbye

    The Last Goodbye

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    Bless Them All watching them all die mother, sister, and brother it almost killed me Photo by Pavel Danilyuk on Pexels.com

  • Here And Gone

    Here And Gone

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    Her Memory Lives On grandmother’s birthday it comes around every year though she is long gone

  • And Afterwards

    And Afterwards

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    Coming Down after the wedding there was a blank sense of loss it began to rain

  • Where The Heart Is

    Where The Heart Is

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    Not Here Or There it is a small house nothing fancy or special it is just a home

  • Our Toni

    Our Toni

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    A Sister Missed She was a nightmare, our Toni. Fiery red hair and a temper just as hot, like her passion. A daughter and a sister and a lover and a wife and a mother most of all, she was always too much: too loud, too rude, too drunk, too wild and wonderful. I sometimes…

  • We Who Loved Her

    We Who Loved Her

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    We Will Remember Her she is still smiling there, in the old photograph my dead sweet sister

  • Wearing Your Genes

    Wearing Your Genes

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    They Fit You So Well our parent trappings those undeniable genes we must wear them well

  • For My Mother

    For My Mother

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    And Every Other Mother Mothering Sunday Without kissing your mother Is a missing day

  • A Big Small Word

    A Big Small Word

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    But Love Is Bigger son, I said to him that small word still fills me up it is his birthday

  • The Man Child

    The Man Child

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    A Son Shines a kiss for a son a grown man, settled, bearded and yet still my child Father And Son – Cat Stevens

  • Depending On You

    Depending On You

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    To Pull The Family Through such a stupid thing a maudlin song from childhood still gets to me now Clarence Carter – Patches

  • Your Birthday Dawns

    Your Birthday Dawns

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    Hope It’s A Good One Suzie D, oh Suzie D a birthday wish to you from me a wish for smiles and happiness and lots of luck and all the best I wish for you a day of fun a good day in the Spanish sun I wish for all your family a day spent…

  • June In Spain

    June In Spain

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    Happy Birthday To A Lovely Lady I have an aunt who lives in Spain, in Nerja, where it rarely rains. She lives there in the warming sun and even now she has her fun with naughty daughter Suzy D and friends and other family. She was a peach when she was young, is pretty still…

  • She Would And She Is

    She Would And She Is

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    And Always Will Be she would have been too old today she would have had a party she would have cooked something she would have wanted a fuss she would not have tidied up she would want your attention she would have sulked if ignored she would have had a meltdown she would have had…

  • Son Of My Father

    Son Of My Father

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    We Are All Who We Are every father’s day I wonder if my son knows how much I love him What is the history of Father’s Day and why do we celebrate it?

  • Kith And Kin Can Kill With Kisses

    Kith And Kin Can Kill With Kisses

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    The Goodbye Kiss Leaves Hurt On Lips the deepest of wounds those that hurt the heart and mind are of flesh and blood

  • A Bitter Sweet Happy Birthday

    A Bitter Sweet Happy Birthday

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    The Missing Ones We Miss The Most a birthday party family get together all those who remain

  • Relatively Little Was Said

    Relatively Little Was Said

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    What We Don’t Say family meeting so much light chitter-chatter so much left unsaid

  • Love Is All You Need

    Love Is All You Need

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    These Are The Ties That Bind what is family? random genes thrown together held in place by love