Category Archives: emotion

Anti-dystopoem

Posted on 24 August, 2020 by PoetJanstie

(for G Jamie Dedes) United we stand, divided we fall. Together we rise. Alone, we hear only the call from sirens of an alternative kind of destiny, where attention seeking soldiers of fortune, their collegial architects and faceless shadows construct … Continue reading →

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Lost Gardeners

Posted on 21 March, 2020 by PoetJanstie

There was such hustle and bustle where now reflective calm. In the thunderbox room nearby the melon yard haunting echoes of silent voices once green fingers that pressed a trigger for King and country, gently call from an early grave, … 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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Sunday

Posted on 28 January, 2018 by PoetJanstie

Walking home from church. Like seeing the sun rise over the week ahead, mind full of penitence, a righteous child, wrapped in reverential warmth and a sense of duty fulfilled. That place of comfort, as short lived as chocolate, such … Continue reading →

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Underneath The Stairs

Posted on 15 October, 2017 by PoetJanstie

And how their days would start at dawn
to sounds of clacking feet.
Underneath the stairs they’d run,
their serving paths to beat. Continue reading →

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The Honeymoon’s Over

Posted on 3 August, 2017 by PoetJanstie

Spring’s promise of high summer has passed, the lush greens gone, and now less vibrant. Parched. Stale somehow. Disappointing. The promise so much sweeter than reality; the heady warmth; sun filled days and mirage haze the balmy heat, hot naked … Continue reading →

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Big Questions

Posted on 31 July, 2017 by PoetJanstie

They could not see the end of their noses the end of the last century the end of infantry and cavalry of Boys Own battles and yet they stand today in ceremony, the successors and descendants of those, who may … 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 in 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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A Ritual for Peace

Posted on 11 November, 2016 by PoetJanstie

If there were ever worthier cause than this, then tell me please. To start and think how each and every step we take will mark the ground. Enduring footprints, howsoever small, one day will rise in thousands, coalesce into a … Continue reading →

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