The Visiting Aunts
This is a memory from my childhood, when I was about Nine years old.
The visiting Aunts have come through the door,
They haven't been here for six months or more,
Their presence is such an incredible bore,
Well I think so!
The visiting Aunts are so out of date,
I soon noticed that when they came through the gate,
Their dresses date back to nineteen-o-eight,
Well I think so!
The visiting Aunts have kisses that smother,
With whiskery chins as one will discover,
Each one is just as bad as the other,
Well I think so!
The visiting Aunts look all around our place,
Tutting and waving their hands, so the lace
Which encircles their wrists shakes a pace,
Why don't they go!
The visiting Aunts are staying to tea,
They're both very fat and will eat more than me,
There'll be nothing left, just you wait and see,
I told you so!
The visiting Aunts they gossip away,
About this and that and 'not in our day',
They never will listen to what others say,
I really feel low!
The visiting Aunts say it's a disgrace,
The way I'm allowed to get dirt on my face,
And go running around with an undone shoelace,
Well, I can't tie a bow!
The visiting Aunts have had 'forty winks',
Mother had said they will go soon, she thinks,
They're both motionless like a couple of sphinx,
Why don't they go!
The visiting Aunts are off down the lane,
Thank goodness they've gone now, they're really a pain, .
I hope that they never visit again,
Please, days go slow!
poem by Ernestine Northover
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Related quotes
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
quote by Donna Tartt
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Aunt Clarice
I have many aunts.
But not one named Clarice.
And I doubt very seriously,
If any of my aunts would change theirs...
To grant me my wish!
Unless...
One knew I've already written a poem,
Entitled...
My Aunt Clarice.
And they thought it to be beautifully written.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Demise Of My Horses
Demise of My Horses
I had been away for a few days,
visiting the aunts of Cascais,
and found my three stone horses gone.
Just cheerless holes
where they had been tethered.
Widening the road, they said
and for that beauty must go.
When a road is enlarged more
cars will fill the space until
the bigger road is too small and
they decide to build a motorway.
The other side of the road will be
impossible to cross and neighbours
will become strangers.
Sun or rain endlessly stunning my horses were
before turned into grit.
poem by Oskar Hansen
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Woman threads
Maternal aunts over maternal uncles,
Paternal aunts over paternal uncles,
Sisters over brothers command more affinity.
Relation threads through women routs
13.05.2000, Palakkad
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
quote by Francis Bacon
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
quote by Harold Brodkey
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The Suit
The Suit
After the surgery my son come visiting
he had brought a dark suit along, hung
it in my wardrobe, said he had brought
it along in case we went to a party.
A fortnight later he flew back home but
left the suit behind so he didn’t have
to bring one next time he came visiting.
poem by Oskar Hansen
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We Are Just Visiting
We are just visiting, this is not home,
we are always connected the source
we are not alone.
We are here to create God,
yes, I said it, I said it out loud.
God gave us free will and
we are body, mind and spirit,
so let’s bring them together and use it.
Since we are just visiting,
we should take better care,
care of planet Gaia while we are here?
Written By Christina Sunrise on January 30,2012
poem by Christina Sunrise
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A hundred aunts is not the same as one mother.
Sierra Leonean proverbs
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
quote by Robert Cormier
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Modern Dukes
Every time that I turn around
I just see the same old thing
Beg to try and to bring me back
To the place I couldn't keep
But I'm an asshole
Storm the castle
Burn the bridges
Down to the ground
Take no prisoners
We're just visiting
We don't care about anything
Thats the way these modern dukes will go
It's every man here for himself
Every time that I turn around
I just see the same old crap
Trucks are trying to grease the wheels
So that they can get laid back
But I'm an asshole
Storm the castle
Burn the bridges
Down to the ground
Take no prisoners
We're just visiting
We don't care about anything
That's the way these modern dukes will go
It's every man here for himself
I'm an asshole
Storm the castle
Burn the bridges
Down to the ground
Take no prisoners
We're just visiting
We don't care about anything
I'm an asshole
Storm the castle
Burn the bridges
Down to the ground
Take no prisoners
We're just visiting
We don't care about anything
That's the way these modern dukes will go
It's every man here for himself
song performed by by Weezer
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Fragments
I am the monarch of the Sea,
The ruler of the Queen's Navee,--
When at anchor here I ride,
My bosom swells with pride,
And I snap my fingers at a foeman's taunts.
And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts
His sisters and his cousins!
Whom he reckons by the dozens,
And his aunts!
'I am the lowliest tar
That sails the water.
And you, proud maiden, are
My captain's daughter.'
'Refrain, audacious tar.
Your suit from pressing;
Remember what you are,
And whom addressing.'
For I am called Little Buttercup,--dear Little Buttercup,
Though I never could tell why;
But still I'm called Buttercup,--poor Little Buttercup,
Sweet Little Buttercup I!
Fair moon, to thee I sing
Bright regent of the heavens;
Say, why is every thing
Either at sixes or at sevens!
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit
That he is an Englishman.
poem by Louisa May Alcott
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Are You Content?
I CALL on those that call me son,
Grandson, or great-grandson,
On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,
To judge what I have done.
Have I, that put it into words,
Spoilt what old loins have sent?
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge,
I cannot, but I am not content.
He that in Sligo at Drumcliff
Set up the old stone Cross,
That red-headed rector in County Down,
A good man on a horse,
Sandymount Corbets, that notable man
Old William pollexfen,
The smuggler Middleton, Butlers far back,
Half legendary men.
Infirm and aged I might stay
In some good company,
I who have always hated work,
Smiling at the sea,
Or demonstrate in my own life
What Robert Browning meant
By an old hunter talking with Gods;
But I am not content.
poem by William Butler Yeats
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Be a nephew or a niece.
The uncles and the aunts once dear to you,
Now old, might pass their last days at their homes.
You must visit them and spend time with them.
Nephews and nieces would repeat it to you.
15.03.2012
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Many Aunts, many Eames, many kin, and few friends.
Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy on a worldwide tour
Visiting cities and knocking on every door
Visiting hills and dales
In his wake torrential rain and gales
No intention to wreak devastation
Yet he and his family are feared by all nations
Leaving helpless, animals and humans alike
Destroying cars, homes and your precious bike
Sandy follows his sister Katrina
casting ashore boats and ships from the sea and marina
when he departs to places unknown
victims shuffle in disbelief..still in their dressing gown.
poem by Brian Roy Skyers
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I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
quote by Robin Tunney
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Who's Groove
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never, robo why, robo clever
Robo hi, robo ho in the sky, robo no
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never, robo why, robo clever
Robo hi, robo ho in the sky, robo no
Waiting for the robo
I'm a universal hobo
I'm a skinny little creature
Will he turn into a feature
Only visiting the planet
That i'm pushing to a circle
Only robo makes me rub it all (?)
The walls where it begun (?)
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Nothing to hide
No reason to stay
Breathless at the end of my run
It all ends where it begun
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never, robo why, robo clever
Robo hi, robo ho in the sky, robo no
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never
Waiting for the robo
I'm a universal hobo
I'm a skinny little creature
Will he turn into a feature
Only visiting the planet
That i'm pushing to a circle
Only robo makes me rub it all (?)
The walls where it begun (?)
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Whatever makes me run?
Has anybody ever seen the end?
Here is where it begun
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Nothing to hide
No reason to stay
Breathless at the end of my run
It all ends where it begun
song performed by by Yello
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Who's Gone
Robo who, Robo gone, Robo what, Robo one
Robo where, Robo never, Robo why, Robo clever
Robo hi, Robo ho in the sky, Robo no
Robo who, Robo gone, Robo what, Robo one
Robo where, Robo never, Robo why, Robo clever
Robo hi, Robo ho in the sky, Robo no
Waiting for the Robo
I'm a universal hobo
I'm a skinny little creature
Will he turn into a feature
Only visiting the planet
That I'm pushing to a circle
Only Robo makes me rub it all (?)
The walls where it begun (?)
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Nothing to hide
No reason to stay
Breathless at the end of my run
It all ends where it begun
Robo who, Robo gone, Robo what, Robo one
Robo where, Robo never, Robo why, Robo clever
Robo hi, Robo ho in the sky, Robo no
Robo who, Robo gone, Robo what, Robo one
Robo where, Robo never
Waiting for the Robo
I'm a universal hobo
I'm a skinny little creature
Will he turn into a feature
Only visiting the planet
That I'm pushing to a circle
Only Robo makes me rub it all (?)
The walls where it begun (?)
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Whatever makes me run?
Has anybody ever seen the end?
Here is where it begun
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Nothing to hide
No reason to stay
Breathless at the end of my run
It all ends where it begun
song performed by by Yello
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Who's Groove
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never, robo why, robo clever
Robo hi, robo ho in the sky, robo no
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never, robo why, robo clever
Robo hi, robo ho in the sky, robo no
Waiting for the robo
I'm a universal hobo
I'm a skinny little creature
Will he turn into a feature
Only visiting the planet
That i'm pushing to a circle
Only robo makes me rub it all (?)
The walls where it begun (?)
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Nothing to hide
No reason to stay
Breathless at the end of my run
It all ends where it begun
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never, robo why, robo clever
Robo hi, robo ho in the sky, robo no
Robo who, robo gone, robo what, robo one
Robo where, robo never
Waiting for the robo
I'm a universal hobo
I'm a skinny little creature
Will he turn into a feature
Only visiting the planet
That i'm pushing to a circle
Only robo makes me rub it all (?)
The walls where it begun (?)
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Whatever makes me run?
Has anybody ever seen the end?
Here is where it begun
Visiting your planet
For a few thousand days
Nothing to hide
No reason to stay
Breathless at the end of my run
It all ends where it begun
song performed by by Yello
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