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A Keeper's View

When you first passed through them

All butterflies and sparkling eyes,

Bouncing bundles of boundless potential

In sharp creases and glistening shoes,

You will barely have noticed, the silent sentries

Marking the boundary between your worlds

Of heavenly refuge and interminable imprisonment.

Back and forth for years, growing as you go

Like a tide, eac...

Saturday 25th May 2013 9:45 am

SKOOL DAZE

At our school we wore red ties and big, blue, woolly sweaters.

Groaning, frowning, learning all those numbers, saints and letters.

The nuns were big and ruthless and they loved to swish the cane.

The summer skies were always blue, it never seemed to rain.

I had a cat sewn in my bag - I couldn’t read my name -

till some wise wit made fun of it – I n...

Friday 26th April 2013 7:16 pm