Poems by Hope: Nonsense Rhymes, Some Thought Provoking, Some Humorous

By Hope Edwards Wills

I started to write what I call "None-sense Rhymes". This was mostly for my own enjoyment but there came a time when I sent my Aunt Marrianne Cox a couple of my Rhymes and I kept sending them as I wrote them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796090574

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Copyright © 2020 by Hope Edwards Wills.

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Rev. date: 11/03/2020

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CONTENTS

HOPE AND ALLEN

Allen And Me

Love-Like Connection

Time Flies

I Do Not Know

Family Divided

I Can’t Believe

Brian’s House

MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Childhood Memories

A Bull In A Pasture

Childhood Fears

I Remember

My Grandma

The Baby Cards

The Night Santa Came

The Old Barn

The Purse

The Runaway

The Witch

This Old House

Grandma Edwards

My Hero

Big Red Hill

MY FAMILLY AND FRIENDS

Here Comes Hope

No Clothes Horse

It’s Me

Dieting Blues

Frogs

Teddy Bear And Muffin

Dear Mama

Two Little Girls

Four Sisters

Our Little Minnie

Minnie Sings

STERLING ESTATES

Walking

The Clown

Getting Old

A Morning At The Park

RIVERVIEW TERRACE

Riverview Terrace

Our High Rise

Who’s The Boss?

The Comedian

Winter In The Highrise

Outside My Window

The Storm

The Library

Ice Skating Grandma

Ice Skating Grandma #2

Exercise Class

The Green Mile

Forever

Diversity

Names

Fred’s Day

Another’s Shoes

Game Day

Chair Bowling

More Games

Ronnie

Rocket Darts

Where’s The Rabbit

Where Did They Go?

Who Could It Be?

The Old Girl

MAPLE VILLAGE

Maple Village New Year

The Motley Crew

Silent Footsteps

Night Time Blues

Elvis

Little Green Tomato

Who Did It?

ON THE SERIOUS SIDE

The Orphan

The Indian

The Way West

Reluctant Star

Back In Time

NONSENSE RHYMES

The Crazy Year

What’s Gone Wrong

The Zoo

Grocery Converstion

Parrot Squabbles

Did You See?

I Wonder

Louie The Elephant

Grocery Store

What Diet

Holiday Meal

Food Contest

Animal School

Dreamland

Storybook Land

Return To Story Book Land

MY FRIENDS ON THE FARM

Animals Rule

A Helping Hand

Tyrant In The Hen House

Henrietta Wins Again

The Pup

Boy Named Sue

The Nickname

Gussy Goose

The Little Donkey

Harry And Friends

Looking For Peace

Gilbert Gander

Paula’s Valentine Hat

Gussy’s Valentine Gift

Contented Pig

Paula Watks

Unlovable Gussy

It’s Spring

Benny Bunny Meets New Friends

Harry Hound’s Day

Picnic Plans

Red, White And Blue

Snack Run

The Mystery

The Theft

County Fair

Thomas Has No Fear

Thomas Turkey

Ready For Fall In The Farmhouse

Ready For Fall In The Farmyard

Just A Dream

Pepper Stew

Bruno’s In Iove

The Big Snow

Winter In The Barn Yard

Winter Fun

Harry Hound’s Memories

Time To Eat

Christmas Caroling

Christmas Eve Plans

Gussy Wants To Sing

Miss Norma Comes To The Farm

Gilbert And Gussy

We Love Miss Norma

The Family Friends Versus The Motley Crew

Another Trantrum

A Friendly Conversation

Another Conversation

Barney’s Temper

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My name is Hope Wills and I started writing these poems about twenty years ago. My husband Allen has always loved my work and has always been my encouragement. I want to dedicate this book of poems to him and to my Aunt Marianne who has collected all my poems and has encouraged me to have them published.

NONSENSE RHYMES

Some thought provoking

Some humorous

BY HOPE EDWARDS WILLS

HOPE AND ALLEN

OUR LOVE STORY

Allen And Me

Two young teenagers met in the fall of 1963,

Before long, inseparable they would be.

Good times and bad times but each one knew in their hearts,

That they would never, ever part.

Time went on and a baby unplanned

Would get each family’s tempers fanned.

But a marriage did take place,

And the young couple did embrace

All the challenges of parenthood,

Sometimes hard, but mostly good.

The young couple decided to move away

To Michigan where they live today.

They raised their family on their own,

But neither one ever felt alone,

Because each one had the other

And the kids had their father and mother.

Time has passed, the kids have grown

Each with families of their own.

But the couple is still together you see

Just the way they said, long ago, it would always be.

HW

A true story.

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Love-Like Connection

Why is it that I can’t find love? a friend said to me.

Love is fine, I said, but like is the real key.

My mom loved me, there was no doubt of that, I know,

But she never liked me and she often told me so.

She would say I was lazy and stubborn and all I did was pout.

You are just like your dad, she would shout.

The love-like connection my mom and sister had

Lasted a lifetime and of that I am glad

Because they found the love-like bond that

stood the test of time so well

That my sister has many happy stories to tell.

Dad and I had the love-like bond that helped to strengthen us

When Mom was making such a fuss.

So, I told my friend when I looked for love, I first searched for like

And found the love-like connection with a boy on a bike.

Because love is often easy to find but like can be elusive.

The key is to find someone with both these things to give.

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Time Flies

It amazes me how fast time goes

Filled with so many joys and woes.

Where is the child, I was at ten?

She is still around now and then.

And the teenager who longed for a knight on a horse.

She really did find that knight of course.

Although he was more boy than knight

And rode a green bicycle and not a horse of white.

To her he was her best friend and she

Would marry him eventually.

Three children were born and more time passed

How could time go so fast?

During this time parents, relatives and friends were lost

At such a great emotional cost.

Now we are in the Golden Years

Contemplating a life of joy and tears.

And when the Golden Years begin to fade

We can feel good about most of the life choices we made

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I Do Not Know

Where is the baby, who would giggle and coo?

Every waking moment, to him, exciting and new.

Where did he go?

I do not know.

Where is that little boy of two?

Who would come crying at the slightest boo-boo.

Where did he go?

I do not know.

Where is that little boy I walked to school at the age of five?

Kicking and screaming, he thought the teacher would eat him alive.

Where did he go?

I do not know.

Where is that seven year old who wouldn’t

smile on picture day because he

Had two front teeth missing, he didn’t want anyone to see?

Where did he go?

I do not know.

Childhood spent each and every day

With not a care in the world, running out to play.

Where did he go?

I do not know.

At fifteen one afternoon coming in late he told me,

l helped a lady with old timers" who was

cold and lost. She really needed me,

you see."

Where did he go?

I do not know.

After graduation into the Navy he did go,

And we would miss him so.

Where did he go?

I do not know.

Years have passed. The boy is now a man

with children of his own and he

ls someone we very rarely see.

Where did he go?

I do not know.

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Family Divided

I wish my Mom would have loved my Dad.

Childhood memories make me sad.

Lines were drawn in our family,

And that is how it always would be.

I don’t know if others saw it that way,

But we lived it every day.

Mom and Vicky----Dad and me.

That was the division. Don’t you see?

Mom and Dad didn’t get along,

And they couldn’t fix what was wrong.

Mom made the rules in the family,

And my Dad, well, he

Would try at times to have a say,

But he would never get his way.

They did divorce eventually,

And we no more were a family.

Dad has been gone now for many years,

And I hope that in heaven he hears,

That I love him very much

And my heart he did touch.

Mom’s also gone and I hope she’s found peace.

Maybe now the drawn lines