{"id":150,"date":"2012-04-05T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2020-03-27T20:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:18:30","slug":"original-poems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/?page_id=150","title":{"rendered":"Original Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio autoplay=\"autoplay\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/04-Child-of-Mine.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio tag.<\/audio><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff; font-size: medium;\"><strong>The following poems were written by me&nbsp;for my daughter on her <strong>Birthdays<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff; font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff; font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/uploads\/media\/images\/cap_018.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">THE SWEETEST BABE<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">If God had said for me to choose<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The sweetest babe in heaven<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The one that had the nicest smile<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">And needed lots of lovin&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The one whose heart would grow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">To be the kindest one I knew<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">I could have searched all heaven Dear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">And would still have chosen you.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Copyright \u00a9 2001-2020 Craftingranny&#8217;s Craft and Sewing Room All rights Reserved.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">WHAT IS A DAUGHTER ?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">What is a daughter?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">So many things, I cannot say<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">She&#8217;s &#8221; Mom loan me a dollar just till payday&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">She&#8217;s dirty blue jeans, that are always too long<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">She&#8217;s an old folk guitar<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Singing a way out song.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">She&#8217;s smiles and dimples<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">And everything fine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">But most of all &#8230;She&#8217;s mine.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Copyright \u00a9 2001-2020 Craftingranny&#8217;s Craft and Sewing Room All rights Reserved.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">MY DAUGHTER, A BLESSING<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Each passing year reminds me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">How blessed I&#8217;ve always been<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">To have you for a daughter<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">And best of all my friend<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">You always seem to know<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The thoughtful things to do<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">And being kind just seems to come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Quite naturally to you.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">I look forward to the time we spend together<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">It means so very much you see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Just to have someone to talk to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Or share a laugh with me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Each night I ask the Lord to keep you in his care<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">And if upon my life&#8217;s page there are any blessings there<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">To send them every one to you<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">and all I have in store<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">For you see my darling daughter<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">That&#8217;s what I saved them for.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Copyright \u00a9 2001-2020 Craftingranny&#8217;s Craft and Sewing Room All rights Reserved.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">CHILDHOOD MEMORIES<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Each time your Birthday comes along<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The memories go rushing by<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Like the times we sang &#8220;Go home said the man in the moon&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">and &#8220;Rocky Mountain High&#8221;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">We knew that we weren&#8217;t perfect<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">but we really didn&#8217;t care.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">For who cared about perfection<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">When we knew the love was there.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">There were the pictures that you drew for me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">I treasure them yet today<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">All memories in which we shared<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">That time can never take away.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">So when at last the good Lord calls me home<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">And looks up my page of life to see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The things for which I am judged<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">both right and wrong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">and how it is I&#8217;ll spend eternity<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Tis then He&#8217;ll find my faults<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">a page will fill<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">and all the times I failed to do His will<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">But when he turns the page to see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">the good I had to do there will be but one great moment there<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">That&#8217;s the day that I had you.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Copyright \u00a9 2001-2020 Craftingranny&#8217;s Craft and Sewing Room All rights Reserved.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">WHEN SHE WAS 21<br \/>\nWell my darling, today you are 21<br \/>\nand it seems like yesterday when I looked around and saw that smiling face looking up to me,ran my fingers through those tousled curls and saw that beautiful smile that said to me &#8220;mommie I love you&#8221;. I&#8217;ve watched you grow from that small sweet child into a beautiful , loving, caring person. For which I thank the Lord, and I must admit there are still times when I would like to hold you in my arms and say to you, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll kiss the hurt and make it all better. The things of this world will go away.<br \/>\nBut your bigger than I am now, and now it&#8217;s me that&#8217;s looking up into that still beautiful face, that sees that still sweet smile, that says to me&#8221; Mother Dear I love you&#8221;.<br \/>\nI must let you know how proud I am of you and how much I love you too.<br \/>\nIn a few more days, you&#8217;ll be holding your own baby in your arms and you&#8217;ll be looking down into a small sweet face that says to you &#8221; mommie I love you&#8221;. And life&#8217;s cycle will begin again.<br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2001-2020 Craftingranny&#8217;s Craft and Sewing Room All rights Reserved.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<map id=\"Map\" name=\"Map\">\n<area coords=\"5,3,62,17\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"\/content\/print.asp?ArticleSource=14\" target=\"_blank\">\n<area coords=\"77,2,192,19\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"\/content\/send_to_friend.asp\">\n<area coords=\"204,2,292,18\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"\/content\/feedback.asp\">\n <\/map>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your browser does not support the audio tag. 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