hi if you have any poems that showcase the problems of parent child relationships in the eyes of a child could u please post them here or send them to me? greatly appreciated, thanks! (my email's saw_le_en@hotmail.com)

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thank you! :) i was so going mad with the stupid google results that turned nothing up... so i really appreciate this!

does anybody have the poem "before you were mine" by carol ann duffy? would love it if u could post or email it! stupid internet returns no searches at all.

Google found it easily:

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Before You Were Mine

I'm ten years away from the corner you laugh on
with your pals, Maggie McGeeney and Jean Duff.
The three of you bend from the waist, holding
each other, or your knees, and shriek at the pavement.
Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn.

I'm not here yet. The thought of me doesn't occur
in the ballroom with the thousand eyes, the fizzy, movie tomorrows
the right walk home could bring. I knew you would dance
like that. Before you were mine, your Ma stands at the close
with a hiding for the late one. You reckon it's worth it.

The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?
I remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics,
and now your ghost clatters toward me over George Square
till I see you, clear as scent, under the tree,
with its lights, and whose small bites on your neck, sweetheart?

Cha cha cha! You'd teach me the steps on the way home from Mass,
stamping stars from the wrong pavement. Even then
I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello, somewhere
in Scotland, before I was born. That glamorous love lasts
where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine.

thanx! ohhh cus i didnt put the inverted commas so they just gave me books written by carol ann duffy ><

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