- my appreciation of life...
- ladyelizabethhaslam@gmail.com
verse poetry
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 […]
October 31, 2013
Don’t tell me you love me, For I will tell you, I love you. Then you will disappear from view; Gone to another, who you say, […]
October 31, 2013
We said goodby, before we said hello. Assuming judging guessing thinking too low, Killing the sweet green shoots of promise Our distorted senses telling us our […]
October 31, 2013
A true knight of the highest order With gentle manners and kind candour His eyes twinkle in mischievous merriment At something thought or said or meant. […]