This poem is about what personal growth reveals: A NEW BEGINNING I read some wise words today, that made me sit up and take heed; I realised with a blinding flash, I’d neglected a person in need. Somehow and someplace in time, I decided that they weren’t deserving;...
Speedy, sharp sound bites half-heart grabs, fuzzy pictures news too fast to heed. Speed is all today. There is no time for thinking peace is all but lost. Sighing of the sea Salt in the breeze, breaking foam. Oh! For the ocean! A ball of fur with closed eyes. My cat...
leaving leaving the slices of sunshine on the windowsill and where the early breeze breathes leaves and earth through thin curtains and the magpies yodel calling for mince and the rattle of cups in the sink and leaving the place where she used to read in the late...
After a very uneasy sleepless night due to the lions moving closer to the camp and roaring incessantly until shortly before dawn, we hurriedly packed up with one eye on the job and one eye on the surrounding bush. We had no firearms for protection so we needed to be...
A Sad Song a Long Way from Home Alone in a Paris apartment, thinking of you and listening to Jim Reeves crooning a sad song, I drift back to a place I used to know so well: a place that exiles, refugees, immigrants, soldiers in wartime, prisoners and people cast out...
