- my appreciation of life...
- ladyelizabethhaslam@gmail.com
verse poetry
January 20, 2013
You are gone I am in you I have gone too. I should have stayed, to be sure With gentleness they washed And dressed you in […]
January 20, 2013
People of power, leaders of lands, Listen well, as we are buried underground. Threatening clouds of evil are again swirling around, Can you not feel the […]
January 26, 2013
My cat left me a leaf at my bedroom door; It was big and bright the best I ever saw, Lovely to receive a present so […]
January 27, 2013
Is there something sinister in the air And has it always been there? As conflict in the globe daily grows Neighbours once friends now deadly foes, […]
January 27, 2013
Let us all rise up as one And pledge we wont kill, anyone. Our days of murdering, are at an end Our will to evil homage, […]
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 4, 2013
Lawrence is tall, with a hesitant gait, Younger than a child in a man’s form. His innocence and trust in others absolute, He is, as we […]
February 4, 2013
Smiling blue eyes asked me to dance. We floated up and away, Into a magical world, no place, no time And I felt so alive. Will […]
February 4, 2013
With no fanfare or warning at all, On this evening of dreams, Mother nature modestly displays, Her silk chiffon shawl of the sea. Streaks of soft […]
February 4, 2013
What inspires those to deface a wall, What is this anger to deform, Why, in their wake leave ugliness behind, For all to find. Will they […]
February 4, 2013
My home, with outstretched arms embracing all who call. The swallows, every year make their nests above the lanterns in the cloisters. They dart and swoop […]
February 4, 2013
I want to be buried next to Makarios’s grave; Up there in the hills where the breeze blows softly. I want to be visited by coach […]
February 4, 2013
Thinking of true friendships, troubled thoughts of others fade. Golden thoughts of friends, replaces this disquiet. To be immersed with loving smiles in my mind, To […]
February 4, 2013
Like a reed in the breeze, Her form, like a serpent sways, Her tousled red hair as flames cascade. The Irish dancer, dances the dance, of […]
February 4, 2013
With humility, Peter the Padre wears the cloth of God; Giving compassion and strength to the lonely worried soldier’s wife. He helps to decompress the soldiers […]
February 4, 2013
The Judge on the bench looks solemnly down, The weight of poor law upon him. He looks down on the worried young soldier before him, Both […]
February 4, 2013
See me as a soldier, trained and ready to go To serve my Queen and country and give my life as well. My uniform is made […]
February 4, 2013
Dinner is done, conversation ceases, Music strikes up, loudly insistently, Couples dance, hectically chaotically, Lone lady ponders on the rhythm of life. Lone lady listening at […]
February 4, 2013
The narrow road winds into a loop. The billowing white clouds of smoke, Are on my left. On my right, the dried up reservoir. The grass […]
February 4, 2013
I am not going there, down to dark depression’s lair. I want to feel the summer breeze in my hair, The wind on my face, the […]