Oh' My wee Man...
Posted: Monday, 17 September 2007 |
My Wee man
Oh' My Wee Man.
my pride and joy,
Across the Machair you take your toy,
It must seem a hell of a distance down to the beach,
To build that sand castle out of tides reach.
How distance shrinks as we get older,
Shrunk by knowledge as we get bolder,
I鈥檝e told you twice to hurry up,
is this just part of growing up?
What鈥檚 the rush? Take your time,
You get on with your wee sand mine.
And when we walk back up the track,
I鈥檒l do a fathers best to cast my mind back,
My Dad seemed so tall, always a mile ahead,
there always seemed such a rush to get me tucked up in bed
For the joy of Winnie and laughing at Poo!
鈥淵es my wee man I love you too鈥濃
To the lessons I did learn on a very similar track,
Thoughts of my own toy tractor, sisal string always taut,
the lessons I have learnt and the rational behind thought.
These are the things that you are teaching me now,
Wait a minute lets climb a tree鈥!
A difficult task when you live on Tiree鈥..
Off the cuff poem........Off shore View, Miss you Finn, Miss you Aedan, Miss you Jack & yes I miss you too.
Oh' My Wee Man.
my pride and joy,
Across the Machair you take your toy,
It must seem a hell of a distance down to the beach,
To build that sand castle out of tides reach.
How distance shrinks as we get older,
Shrunk by knowledge as we get bolder,
I鈥檝e told you twice to hurry up,
is this just part of growing up?
What鈥檚 the rush? Take your time,
You get on with your wee sand mine.
And when we walk back up the track,
I鈥檒l do a fathers best to cast my mind back,
My Dad seemed so tall, always a mile ahead,
there always seemed such a rush to get me tucked up in bed
For the joy of Winnie and laughing at Poo!
鈥淵es my wee man I love you too鈥濃
To the lessons I did learn on a very similar track,
Thoughts of my own toy tractor, sisal string always taut,
the lessons I have learnt and the rational behind thought.
These are the things that you are teaching me now,
Wait a minute lets climb a tree鈥!
A difficult task when you live on Tiree鈥..
Off the cuff poem........Off shore View, Miss you Finn, Miss you Aedan, Miss you Jack & yes I miss you too.
Comments
MY all-American WEEMAN carries a bb gun, and a black lab puppy in the pocket of his camouflage jacket ... [kidding] ? # Charming picture. He's going to be a farmer, is he?
mjc from NM
really lovely and sentimental,its brought tears to my eyes
carol from having a sniff
Lovely photos again, and very touching sentiments. My heart goes out to you - away from your loved ones. Take care
Squidgy the Otter from Coll
I think he wants to be a marine biologist ? but no doubt he will be what he will be...without the BB
Off shore view from Currently Libya.
yes, thought so, you are a poet. Reminds me of holidays on Tiree when we all went onto 'Tiree Time', which suggested that 'manana' was far too urgent to contemplate.
estojo from Glasgow
What an amazing journey with deep rotted belief's, outstanding knowledge,and to see such amazing pictures just completes the story,told as it is, and gives us an insite to what is happening and what lies ahead.
Barbara from Poole Dorset
Picture and poem turned my thoughts and love to Daniel when he was as young and playing in the fields in Lopez Wa. - good memories - thank you.
Robina Browne from Pahoa, Hawaii
"muterings about life and distant shores...an off shore view"
A World wandering from my Tiree home
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