Category Archives: Poesie

Days of The Dead

  Ed: 17 November 2013 I did fear to speak of Death In this Time of Dying Though needs must   Turning inward The world dies outward Leaves curl and crumble   Brother Ian, Samhain Eve Highland Ancestors awaiting Pipes … Continue reading

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I Will Miss–Salamanca

I will miss the sunsets across the hills I never walked to the wild shoreline of Spain I never saw the smiles of young volunteers glowing orange the hugs and laughter with Laura and Leticia the conversatione with Bob and … Continue reading

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Great Aunt Alice: in Memoriam for My Friend Ann’s Aunt Who is being Remembered in a Special Service April 27th 2013 in Pennsylvania USA

Great Aunt Alice For Alice Lillian Carlson nee Retzlaff January 4, 1907-October 2, 2012 By Ann’s friend Leona Alice-Mae Graham   I felt I knew Ann’s Aunt Alice.   Through the years Her-stories came my way. I wish we’d met. … Continue reading

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International Women’s Day: rise up, never give up, we stand on our fore-mothers’ shoulders…

V-Day and W-Day meet in my mind we sing one song, a hymn to a future without violence to girls and women a joyful tune of tomorrow our species walks in wisdom, dances with wolves, runs with the cheetah we … Continue reading

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V-Day: Rising Here at Home

14 February 2013 Here At Home All is quiet On the one billionth doorstep But I can hear them in the distance Demanding freedom from violence Celebrating hope despite the danger The right to walk streets Without fear of rape … Continue reading

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Ageing, At Seventy, And Counting

…. having read Lynne Segal’s Making Trouble: Life and Politics, A Political Memoir (2007) Threescore and ten I can remember well: Within the volume of which time I have seen Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night Hath … Continue reading

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In Our Time

December 17, 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi triggers The Jasmine Revolution, The Arab Spring— but long before, in many places, others had planted seeds   A year on Protestors occupy Haymarket Square in nearby Norwich, Occupy London stands by Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley … Continue reading

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Black on Red

Blackbirds cluster on crabapples The black cat watches with yellow eyes The garden sighs softly as winter drops   In nearby Norwich the protestors occupy Haymarket Square; we drop in for a cuppa, Mandy and me. They are Us, Reborn, … Continue reading

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Remembering Mum

Two years ago yesterday You leapt into other dimensions True to your philosophical bent You chose when and how Just as the angel image of you returned Your white haloed hair you so kindly passed to me Striking full force … Continue reading

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As Syria Bleeds

Once again but always different As the fountains of Damascus flow red, as The People of Homs say No Once And For All To dictatorship, corrupt elites, military might of the few, evil incarnate Yes To self-determination, hope for better … Continue reading

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