Fractious Family



POETRY TOW TRUCK

http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/poetry-tow-truck-27-a-family-reunion-of-sorts/

asks us to deal with a Word Family

FRACTIOUS FAMILY

A family of fractious words; a fractious family;

Such as the one, here, on the stage, living familiarly.

Father looks quite testy, mother's at breaking point;

Obviously she is touchy; her world is out of joint.

Maria's looking petulant; it goes with her red hair.

Agnes is being captious, flinging her head about;

Martin's feeling cranky and just about to shout.

Austin is so irritable, his head is in his hands;

Father's the dominant figure; they must yeld to his commands.

It's not a pretty picture; it's a little bit absurd,

But at least I did what you asked me to with my own chosen word!

Fractious!

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SERENITY

On a pleasant Winter's day

All the world's at Warners Bay.

Cycling, fishing, trampolining,

Walking, lazing, simply preening.

Lake Macquarie spread before us;

All the sounds of sea-bird chorus.

Little children, laughing, running.

Older people sitting, sunning.

Picnics, ice-cream, thermos tea.

There's nowhere else we'd rather be.

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