Poems from the Heart

Well,

sorry it's been months since I posted. Got caught up in life. Everything is going great. I thought I would post my poems that I have written since they are about the most important things in my life and are ussually promted by a big event in my life.

Watching My Sister Fall in Love

Watching my sister fall in love
I’ve realized how little I know

Love is a thing hard to describe
It is sharing your life
Your stories, your friends
It is showing your faults
And not trying to hide

It is a glow, a change
A difference in your very being
It is trying your best to become
Better than you are

It is telling and sharing and laughing
Together
It is hope and a joy
It is commitment to each other

It is growing, it is striving
It is working together
It is recognizing how you change
One another

Watching my sister fall in love
I’ve realized how little I know

A sister is there to help you to grow
To lead and to guide
And sometimes to tell you no

A sister is there to comfort
To laugh with and cry with
And enjoy growing up with

A sister is there to show you the way
To set the example
That you always will follow

To create memories
Pure and sweet
In the high times
Or the low
A sister is there to dance with
To sing with
To imagine a world beyond our own
And make it true with

She helps to show you
That tears are okay
That laughter is medicine
And that fairy tales
Can be true

For that sister that
I have watched fall in love
I LOVE YOU!!!


Memories of You

Memories of you
When we were still young

Of our room during nap time
Voices quietly playing
Statues or dolls

Of playing elves
Of princesses
Ordering our poor servant
Kristi around

Of adventure and
Excitement
Exploring something new

Of growing up
Staying up late
And talking of dreams

Of dancing on the beach
Or in a thunderstorm
On our driveway



Of sweet voices
Singing me to sleep
At girl’s camp
Late one night

Of water fights
Getting soaked to
The skin

Or of being locked outside
And racing
To all the doors
To get in

Memories of toilet paper
Flying through the night
As you taught me
A new kind of art

Of the moon
Bathed in red
As we watched
An eclipse

Or of discussions
About what
Harry Potter would
Face next

These memories of you
Are bright shinning pillars
Showing me what
To do

Because these memories
Cherished and sweet
Are my way of
Remembering

Just why
I looked up to you

I wrote those two poems when Bri got engaged. I read them at her wedding reception.
This next one I worte in response to a question Brother Norton asked in Institute, he asked who taught us what we know about love

What I've learned about love

What I've learned about love
I've learned from my dad
who guided and counseled
and shown me the way

What I've learned about love
I've learned from my mom
who saw past the
faults mistakes and the flaws

What I've learned about love
I've learned from my brothers
who forgave and forgot
the things that I've done

What I've learned about love
I've learned from my sisters
who've shared in my joys
my pains and my griefs

What I've learned about love
I've learned from my teachers
who shared with me
their great knowledge and truths

What I've learned about love
I learned in school
from fellows reaching out
for caring and comfort

What I've learned about love
I learned from my Brother
who laid down His life
that all might live

What I've learned about love
I learned from my Father
who provided the plan
to lead me to Him

Finnally my last poem I wrote in response to a recent crisis concerning Koda. On monday I got out of school to find out that Koda had bit Matthew when Matthew tried to take an icecream container away from him that he had found. When dad had called the Humane Soceity to find out what to do they had told him that because Koda had bit he would have to be put down. This was written durring the hieght of that crisis. We learned the next day by calling our vet, animal control, and teh health department that the humane society was wrong. All that happens the first time they bite is a ten day quarentine(they have to stay in your house or backyard) to make sure they don't have Rabbis.

My best friend

You were the one
I came to with problems
Who listened to me
As only you could

You were the one
Who cuddled and snuggled
Deep into
All hours of the night

You were the one
Who loved me to bits
Who didn’t care
About looks or smell

You were the one
Who smiled without fail
When that was what
I needed the most

You were the one
Who was happy to wake up
Who grinned at the chance
To spend one more day with me

You were the one
Whose bark full of joy
Who would not be silenced
Whatever the neighbors said

You were the one
Who tore stuff to bits
Despite all protestations
And scoldings of NO!

You were the one
Joyful to see me
Grinning around corners
And saying catch me if you can

You were the one
Who taught me patience and love
Through all the midnight hours
Full of potty training trips

You were the one
Who taught me no mess
Is to big
To forget to laugh about it

You were the one
Who taught me how to comfort
As I saw you lying sick
In those first few months

You were the one
Who taught me to hold on tight
Because you were the one
To jump after the squirrels

You were the one
Who taught me to face my problems
As I watched you learn
To get over your fear of other dogs

You were the one
With that big puppy grin
That told me everything
Was going to be all right

You were the one
Who was ready to play
Fetch or tugtug… whichever
Just for the fun

You were the one
Who taught me
How to teach as I taught you
To sit, lay-down, and to stay

You are the one
That I will always remember
Because Koda You were always the one
-Tay tay