You often need bright birthday cards for friends
And cards to show care for close family
Searching's fun, or can drive you round the bend
You can personalise with poetry
What can I make, a big card or small cake
The answer to that question is not hard
Last year I made myself a photo cake
Sometimes I make personal books or cards
Our darling likes sport, goes with her spouse to ski
In ice cold snow winter or melting spring
Won't economise, books the best hotel
Likes silver ear-rings, or diamond rings
She won't waste, sells second-hand, and won't shirk
While others read books she busily cooks
Daytime, evenings, Sundays she'll plan her work
Buy big events, hats and designer hooks
She walks out to parks, strolls, looks about
But equally she's happy staying in
Loves to eat well, thinks that diets are hell
Only in theory wants to be slim
She's travelled wide, both near and far
She can swim, float, or sunbathe on a boat
She's multi-skilled, drives and parks a big car
Rarely needs sickness pills or antidotes
Keen restaurant owners rush to meet her
They make a fuss of the fussy eater
She checks the contents of every dish
Then her favourite choice is the choicest fish
She's had her share of the world's joys and ills
Counts out strawberries and vitamin pills
She'll phone her parents, video her brother
Her daughter thinks she's the world's best mother
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Copyright Angela Lansbury September 2024
I found that all couplets was doggerel, the rhyme sounded predictable and forces I moved every third line after the first line so the rhyming scheme changed from aabb to abab. That sounded much better.
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