Poems – Sapphire Sea

Watch “The Last Of Us Main Theme” on YouTube

I took up the guitar again after forty years during my vow of silence. And I really couldn’t have got through the pandemic alone without the cheerful accomplished music of Beatrix. Hope you like my poem below it references some issues of my complex PTSD as do many of my poems. There are more versesContinue reading “Watch “The Last Of Us Main Theme” on YouTube”

“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.

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”

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”