Category Archives: Love

As If…

Posted on 1 February, 2012 by PoetJanstie

He was muttering as if he was trying to describe a vision he couldn’t share with her; with anyone. It was of something he’d never seen before this moment; a moment when she saw a look on his face that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Death, emotion, Free Verse, Hope, Love, melancholy, poem, poetry, sadness | 17 Comments

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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Posted in children, emotion, family, Hope, Love, poem, poetry, Religious | 2 Comments

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 →

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Posted in age, children, environment, family, Hope, Love, nature, poem, poetry, wisdom | 8 Comments

Rose Petal

Posted on 30 June, 2011 by PoetJanstie

You came to me from rose vermilion red; so rude and flushed with health you seemed to be. I was surprised when I discerned instead your disposition was no longer free; that, whilst you were so moist and soft, I … Continue reading →

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Posted in conservation, Hope, Love, nature, nostalgia, poem, poetry, political, sadness, Sonnet, wisdom | Tagged Conservation, Nature | 11 Comments

Sixty

Posted on 13 June, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Imagine if you will one day in nineteen fifty one a babe was born, a girl, and a special life begun. When she was two, but why would anyone resist the apple of her doting father’s eye and her mother’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in age, anniversary, conservation, family, fun, green, Love, nature, poem, poetry, story | 7 Comments

Jessica Tenth of May

Posted on 10 May, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Jessica Tenth of May, we love you dear. We love the very day that you were born; a time of year when you can always hear bird song echo spring across the lawn. The time of year that follows, after … Continue reading →

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An Easter Message from Good Friday, Good Fortune?

Posted on 24 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Easter is a time, in the Christian calendar, that celebrates sacrifice, but most important of all, forgiveness. I didn’t plan to write this article, it just came to me, prompted by some unlikely sources. It has given me another interesting … Continue reading →

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STOP PRESS – a little recognition!

Posted on 19 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

One of my poems, “Was That The Day“, was shortlisted in the Marriott Love Poems competition, which was run in March 2011. It wasn’t among the winners, alas, but encouraging all the same: a little tiny piece of recognition (for … Continue reading →

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Big Comfy Cushion

Posted on 24 February, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(for Sophie) Every morning you get up to greet me at the door and, like an automaton, pad off to where your breakfast bowl has been; habit borne of sixteen years of life. In this house you’ve ruled our every … Continue reading →

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All These Years

Posted on 14 February, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Of all the years we have been together there isn’t a single one in doubt but there is one certain thing the year we’re in right now is best of all, my life bears out there is a truth of … Continue reading →