- my appreciation of life...
- ladyelizabethhaslam@gmail.com
Poetry
January 30, 2013
If the world had the will to unite together Famine and starvation would be gone forever. If those who have, gave to those who have least, […]
February 6, 2013
The box of temptation lay open on the tray Dark shiny little baby bricks, in their little beds. The rich aroma wafting, urging me astray, Like […]
February 15, 2013
Today you were so kind and sweet. You kissed my black eye and licked my cracked lip. You were so sorry you knocked me off my […]
February 28, 2013
Don’t walk down to the sea of souls I will go alone. There I will see her who has gone astray Struggling moaning floundering around. Her […]
March 2, 2013
At last in Cyprus sanity has prevailed. The first round to win most votes, Anastasiades failed. But the second round he won, the electoral race; Today, […]
March 7, 2013
How come some men are incredibly surly? A pleasant remark met with acute acidity A smile you ask, the response, not hostile surely? But yes, he […]
March 7, 2013
All those wasted days and nights When I could have been with you. I dreamed of you and the years flew; We clung together under dappled […]
March 8, 2013
I’ve nothing to say to you now To end our affair I now know how. It’s all too late in the day, I’ve loved you for […]
March 23, 2013
Mummy wakes us up with a shout, ‘You’ll be late for school you must up and out’. I remember the cold, the ice inside the pane. […]
March 23, 2013
At last the carpet of Cyprus has been raised, And fat greedy maggots on display, Europe can now gaze. The church pays no taxes at all, […]
April 6, 2013
How can I not create in this space? Each brush stroke, human energy, radiating the place. A picture, a vase, a lamp, lovingly bought; A jigsaw, […]
April 10, 2013
You suggested I listen to Dylan or Cohen, To understand techniques of writing lyrics; I listened to those masters of music and feel sure I can […]
April 14, 2013
Listen to the birds in the sky They sing their songs for you and I. They swoop and duck and dive so high Performing in God’s […]
April 14, 2013
The smiling man, said, he’d make me rich Carry me away, from my grey niche. He charmed me , with his silver tongue, But weeks later, […]
April 22, 2013
You are one year old today. You can almost walk Amazing your crawl, So fast, you streak across the floor. You are a real trooper; Happy […]
May 22, 2013
How sad is the house across the street, With its dirty windows and crumbling paint. The trees and bushes and flowers are dead. The garden yearns […]
June 1, 2013
How can I ever forget you? You were my world, you had my heart You’re in my soul, we’ll never part. I see your face, wreathed […]
July 1, 2013
We said goodbye, before we said hello. Assuming judging guessing thinking too low, Killing the sweet green shoots of promise Our distorted senses telling us our […]
August 26, 2013
Felix, steals the cake with his little podgy hands. Then claims the dummy from the baby’s mouth in her pram, He knows everything that is, is […]
September 18, 2013
The crying child on the line gave warning Begging her mother against returning As her father was brandishing a knife, Promising to slice up in chunks […]