Tag: lessons

• Sleeping Bear

  

  I am a sleeping bear with the richest hide of tan, Try and wake me if you dare, But none too many can. You can poke and you can tease; I may grumble, I may moan, But in a deep passivity I have made my humble home. A bear unlike my kin, Yes indeed I…

  Serena Malcolm

  30 October, 2015

  Other

  Analogy, Bear, Breaking point, Buttons, Don’t poke the bear, emotions, feelings, lessons, Limits, metaphors, poem, poetry

• First Love

  

  You held my hand when I was young, I looked up and saw more than my father, I saw the first man I would ever love, And the mould for each man thereafter. You showed me the beauty of strength when it’s blended with a gentle core, How to appreciate all that I have, While still pushing…

  Serena Malcolm

  21 June, 2015

  Love

  daughter, family, Father, future, lessons, life lessons, love, poem, poetry, relationships, teacher

• Example

  

  My Daddy hitted a man, There was lots of blood and I sawed that when daddy hitted the man, the man went to sleep on the floor, And daddy had on that face, Like the one when he hitted my mum and she cried and cried and cried and kept asking him what she had done,…

  Serena Malcolm

  23 May, 2015

  Other

  abuse, bad example, childhood, children, control, domestic abuse, domestic violence, emotion, emulation, examples, Father, food for thought, lessons, life, life lessons, Parenting, parents, poem, poetry, role models, setting examples, son, thought-provoking

• Geek to Geek

  

  Don’t let anyone tread on your dreams; They’re each graciously worthy of light, Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t; Because you can, just as long as you fight. Stop doubting what lives in your heart; It knows so much more than your mind, Stop thinking that emotion is weakness; There’s great strength in…

  Serena Malcolm

  1 May, 2014

  Inspire

  advice, dreams, future, inspire, lessons, poetry, teenagers, wisdom