If you have a moment then please take a look at this new page where you can find the links to my blog posts with my own poetry in. I write about issues such as my difficult childhood, and my feelings about the late Queen’s possible demise in the pandemic amongst others.
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They’re Late Again – the Taxes
The Deil’s awaugh, the Deil’s awaugh,The Deil’s awaugh wi’ th’ excise man.(Robert Burns 1759-1796) I first heard this tune as we were sitting in a tin can, rattling along in the dark. Robert Burns’ famous song being roared at the tops of their voices by a bunch of overgrown boy scouts. Possibly Runrig fans tooContinue reading “They’re Late Again – the Taxes”
‘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?
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”
Sapphire Sea 