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- Launch of BookShare
- Family Learning English Party
- The importance of reading with your child
- New Year, New Start January 2017
- Let’s Just Do It!
- To the Library we went. Quality time we spent…
- Not your average Friday!
- Come rain or snow, it’s off to the library we go…again!
- Make Time To Share A Book
- Inspirational Women of Our Time
- For Daughters
- Our Theatre Trip
- Family Learning visit Parliament
- 22nd May 2017
- Ahoy Captain!
- Teddy Bear Hospital
- Summer Fun at Balsall Heath Library!
- Summer Fun with Bright Sparks Science Day
- Parliament visits Balsall Heath!
- Mr Godsiff, MP visits St Paul’s Community Development Trust
- Snow Days!!!
- OH YES WE ARE!!
When did I forget to tell you?
To remind you. To ensure it was etched
You remembered to cross safely, drive slowly
To have good friends, to eat lunch, to sleep
You remembered to love, to care and be kind
To give thanks, to work hard, to live your dreams
to have fun and to live life to the full.
A concert? So excited.
Oh, What did I forget to tell you?
Keep your wallet, your phone safe. Enjoy yourself.
But oh, What did I forget to tell you?
Broken, shattered …..An innocence gone
Hafsha D Shaikh
Note: This poem was composed a day after the atrocity in Manchester.
The poem explores a mother’s grief. She recalls the advice to her child, and berates
herself for the advice she did not give.
The advice she did not think she had to give, to say out loud. The inference is that she did not remind her child to look out for the
unseen and thinkable dangers.
The poem ends suddenly.