Category Archives: children

A Poem for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Posted on 7 April, 2020 by PoetJanstie

~~~~~ “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” ~ John Donne (1572-1631) from Meditation XVII ~~~~~ My grandpa is quite old, … Continue reading →

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Pine Cone

Posted on 29 September, 2018 by PoetJanstie

… in a world beleaguered by well healed negligence …
… your unconscious prayer for a better world … Continue reading →

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A Sonnet for Leila

Posted on 6 March, 2017 by PoetJanstie

The narrow path that sometimes seems too longdim crescent moon in deeply dark night skyand have they ever made you feel the throngof voices on your head that ask you whybut never seem to show the way to bethe touch … Continue reading →

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Comment for Kole

Posted on 3 January, 2017 by PoetJanstie

Never expecting too much of life Is like preparing to be surprised. When all it throws at you is bad news, it comes good! Then you popped your head above the parapet to say Hello, it’s me, I’m here! Where’s … Continue reading →

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Little Big Man

Posted on 31 July, 2015 by PoetJanstie

(for Samuel Leon Anstie) This fragile earth, on which we so depend is strewn with evidence that life portends a choreography of happenstance. Your shoes were made for your own special dance. Then you appeared and shone the warmest light; … Continue reading →

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Elegy for Penny

Posted on 7 February, 2013 by PoetJanstie

It isn’t the loss of the shirt from my back, nor the house that’s levelled and gone. You couldn’t replace the air that we breath or the love, ’bout which there’s a song. Refrain But you gave me power and … Continue reading →

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Christmas Tree

Posted on 22 December, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Christmas tree O, Christmas tree, bring me a little magic so I will see where I can dwell in places far away and hear you tell the tales of yesterday. Christmas tree O, Christmas tree, bring hope of dreams as … Continue reading →

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Hypno-Vision

Posted on 10 October, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Conscious of a noise. Hypnopompic. There’s something or someone doing something familiar but very vague. No synapses connecting to reason. Feeling a thirst that puts the ‘P’ in pang the ‘D’ in desire the ‘G’ in good deep longing … Continue reading →

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Perfection

Posted on 10 October, 2011 by PoetJanstie

I walked and wandered, we talked, I sang, but also had to sit awhile for what seemed like an age. You’d had a surfeit at the bar you had leaked a bit from both ends… and seemed uncomfortable, unhappy, not … Continue reading →

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A Lion is Born

Posted on 5 October, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(For Leo) It was amid an Indian summer, deep in the season’s golden glow when we would normally expect the crisp and still of autumn’s chill, beckonning a hint of winter’s snow. For two days there had been no cloud. … Continue reading →