The Handover – by Patricia Goldberg ©2020

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”

A WORK IN PROGRESS – METALLURGY

Looking again at some of my poems I am sorry to have burdened you with such raw material. As you know the queen has been reigning for seventy years which is quite a remarkable feat and I felt a poem bubbling up inside for this special time. Here is my contribution and it is veryContinue reading “A WORK IN PROGRESS – METALLURGY”

The Girl with the Louding Voice

by Abi Dare Review In my book group this week we were reading this and it was my choice to listen to it as an audio book. I am so pleased that I did. It is a very inspiring story of why not to give up and how to endure the most terrible things andContinue reading “The Girl with the Louding Voice”

La Fin de la Nuit Pour L’Enfant

From Les Misérables, Part I, Book 1, chapter 10, by Victor Hugo L’Eveque en Présence d’une Lumière A transfiguration at a deathbed that leads the bishop to be a good and holy disciple.  “Le Conventional, -Quant á Louis XVI j’ai dit non . . . . J’ai voté la fin du tyran.  C’est à direContinue reading “La Fin de la Nuit Pour L’Enfant”

The Colour Turquoise

– My Poems (3) Hot long days and water fights, We three young graces Playing chasing games With the French girls in their bustiers Bound firmly in place with multiple straps. Why me? Aqua. Girl guides’ blouses bursting out all over. He couldn’t be trusted with a map on the moor. And the swans swamContinue reading “The Colour Turquoise”