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“Queenhood” by Simon Armitage

Some beautiful words by the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, helping us to make sense of what is happening.

Transition

I wrote my poem The Handover during the pandemic expressing my concerns about the queen, and now it’s happened.

‘On Children’ by Khalil Gibran 1883-1931

For life goes not backwards nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Life Lessons from my German Teacher

Is my family Hamlet or King Lear?

This is one of my first ones that I wrote for AudaciArt magazine during the pandemic. I hope you like it but any comments would be appreciated. Make haste ere the plastic tubes on her face lose powerAnd force the last breath from her breast.Her subjects expect her everlasting quiet fear and domination to stay,KeepingContinue reading “The Handover – by Patricia Goldberg ©2020”