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”
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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”
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”
The Colour Turquoise
– My Poems (3) Hot long days and water fights,We three young gracesPlaying chasing gamesWith the French girls in their bustiersBound firmly in place with multiple straps.Why me?Acqua.Girl guides’ blouses bursting out all over.He couldn’t be trusted with a map on the moor.And the swans swam onAs the Chelsea pensionersIn their crimson coatsOverlooked the EtonContinue reading “The Colour Turquoise”
MY POEMS (1)
White shoes click clacking. Rosie and I snaking our way through the indigo gloom,Two verdant escorts in tow.We separate. I was one of those kids who had to recite and learn poems as a party piece for the grownups. It became a self-fulling prophecy that my life has been filled with the tapestry of poems.Continue reading “MY POEMS (1)”