Remember <br />when the kids were small <br />remember <br />remember <br />wrong shoes on tiny feet <br />and parents struggling <br />to maintain their calm <br />lace time to their elbows <br />tick-tock their tongues <br />at feisty fledglings <br />ripping ribbons <br />shredding stitches <br />howling without tears - <br />remember <br />remember <br />when the kids were small? <br />Kookaburras seranaded us <br />from a Eucalyptus jungle - <br />remember? <br /> <br />April 1997<br /><br />Penny Hemans<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/memories-160/