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Jenny

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti The name Jenny has a great deal of significance in my family as there were, sadly all now gone, three (some Jean or Jennifer). And each one pretty formidable, in particular my ex mother in-law who was the spitting image of the looked after social worker in my city. This poemContinue reading “Jenny”

Kitchen Conversation

My Poems (2) Grandma yelled out ‘There’s tails in the pan’,And then it caught fire.So soon the draughty back playroomGot a new stove andBecame the hub of the house.But what of the old kitchen,Beneath the loft where I layFrozen with the large windows all around,Bodget and squashTransformed it into a bogAnd a store,For mother’s materialContinue reading “Kitchen Conversation”

Treasured Words

For Charlie Lord Please be with women or their children who have disabilities, Visual impairment, learning or physical disabilities, And especially those with mental health disorders, Surround and enfold them in your love, And help them to live life to the full Without fear or oppression. Help us to bring an end to discrimination againstContinue reading “Treasured Words”

For Charlie

My son always loved Annie Lennox, and she has such a soaring beautiful spirit, and that helped him with his autism and non-verbal learning disabiiites to learn about beautiful uplifting emotions and spirituality and expression of personality and identity. It may or may not have been until his eighteenth that he got to hear thisContinue reading “For Charlie”

War — Awesomengers

A poem by Mahesh Mali It isn’t just the impact on the human casualties at the time, but war is also a terrible contribution to global warming and desertification that wrecks the ecosystem. The impact of the wars in the first couple of decades of the new millennium will be felt for generations to comeContinue reading “War — Awesomengers”