by Nathan Ihemadu | Apr 15, 2009 | Poetry
Earth you’re filled up like a sardine can But to your avail I have a plan A plan to relieve you of your excruciating pain Reduce, Reuse, Recycle let me explain! Recycling is the first method I suggest And I think you’ll agree it might be the best The help of humans to...
by Nathan Ihemadu | Apr 15, 2009 | Poetry
Church and carols like jingle bells, Cakes, sweets and presents from the church Christmas sale, Running home to get fed like kings Those are a few of my favourite Christmas things! Potatoes and turkey covered with gravy that’s nice, Meatballs, salad and vegetables...
by Richard Hough | Apr 15, 2009 | Poetry
The old man hobbles down the familiar street, tapping to find his way, unnoticed by passers by. Behind his unseeing eyes he relives painful memories. They are as fresh to him as yesterday’s bread these images of Death exploding around him. He sees his comrades in arms...
by Jenny Morris | Apr 15, 2009 | Poetry
The flagstones are worn where she paces alone in darkness, at daybreak, her heart held by frost. She faces the truth that her son won’t come home. He fought for his faith and his life, and he lost. ‘I’ll manage,’ she says as she walks up and down and rocks in her arms...
by Beth Pritchard | Apr 15, 2009 | Poetry
Shiny buttons, clean uniforms, With fresh faced excitement they marched A brave new world waited They were heroes. The mud was everywhere This wasn’t what they had planned All shaken with fear They were heroes Cold coursed through them The smell too much to bear...
by Jenny Martin | Apr 15, 2009 | Poetry
Your Daddy’s off to his training, there’s a war on, you must not cry, they said when he left on a troop train. Training-war-train-do-not-cry baffled my three-year-old mind. Three years with a few brief encounters when he returned home on leave shrouded in battledress...
