My sons tower over me
making me feel like I have shrunk
the eldest shares stories of University
some I’d rather not hear
Spontaneous hugs envelop me
protective and loving
we smile over stories of their boyhood
adventures while walking to school
playing at Orcs in the woods
chasing waves on a North Sea beach
then travelling home soaked through
that time in the fountain…
I am grateful for the gifts of love and joy
that they bring me
many times unknowingly
am happy when the house
fills with the deep laughter of young men
Copyright © 2019 Kim Whysall-Hammond
The Cheesesellers Wife 
Loving sentiment … lovely! Cheers Jamie
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….and the house empties on 2nd September. Last Son off to Uni —be prepared for a blog full of saaaad poetry…..
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I do know what that is like and all three of them passed me barely out of puberty…
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I always thought of myself as tall…..sigh….
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My height never passed 5’2″ so they didn’t have to go far. However, the older two passed six feet long before high school. The third had some health issues and he never passed 5’10”. But considering the illness and the statistics on it, he did very well. He is the one the girls could never take their eyes off. He has the six-pack and everything that goes with it. He can scale a cliff faster than a mountain goat and is very into all those high energy, extreme sports. My little Welsh grandmother didn’t come up to my chin as a teenager. My Swedish grandmother was 6’2″ so I am a mongrel. ;)
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