Category Archives: poetry

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

Looking South

Posted on 27 September, 2011 by PoetJanstie

If you stand in the wind and allow it to bend you so you flex and withstand it, don’t let it uproot you, then you’ll find it can’t hurt you in spite of extraordinary pain. If your instinct for flight … Continue reading →

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Posted in courage, experience, Heroes, Hope, Injury, poem, poetry, War | 5 Comments

Grasslands

Posted on 28 August, 2011 by PoetJanstie

A poem inspired by two people: Rumi – ancient poet extraordinaire Craig – Grassland Scientist and almost poet, but nonetheless extraordinaire and a photo… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I see you there, underneath the sky, that huge and glorious high. And in-between, a … Continue reading →

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Posted in age, environment, green, nature, poem, poetry, science, wisdom | 12 Comments

Twenty Nine

Posted on 15 August, 2011 by PoetJanstie

It Started It is just twenty-nine short years ago, a conflict over sovereign soil; a war we had been forced to join, and what is more we knew him through his brother. So we know how close we were to … Continue reading →

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Posted in age, courage, Heroes, Hope, melancholy, poem, poetry, sadness, story, War | Tagged Battles, Soldiers, War | 21 Comments

You Rock

Posted on 1 August, 2011 by PoetJanstie

Unlike the rose, whose life is all too short; whose beauty, transient, strikes the heart with olfactory refrain, intoxicating ache, to caress my right brain with melancholic pang, you… you resist the tides, whose rhythms, trying to change, never seem … Continue reading →

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Posted in age, cosmos, environment, Free Verse, melancholy, nature, poem, poetry, wisdom, Wonder | 4 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

Limerick Eight

Posted on 14 May, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(A tribute to Edward Lear) A man who loved to write verse was a neologist, notably terse to demonstrate that an owl and a cat did some things that were rather perverse © 2011 John Anstie (view the author’s commentary … Continue reading →

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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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Listen with Mother (Nature)

Posted on 27 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(for the Birds in my life) Neither birder nor a twitcher, me, I’m listening now to nature’s voice, and one who makes it like a breeze, as she observes and listens, makes her choice, identifying birdsong in the trees, by … Continue reading →