Category Archives: poetry

The Festival

Posted on 22 July, 2019 by PoetJanstie

In a field somewhere, full of stars, enchantment you could almost hug, cupped in hands, with sparkle and dust, you can carry it off in your pocket. It’s magic, so catch some you must. Catch a glimpse of follies too … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Folk, Free Verse, Music, Pleasure, poem, poetry, recreation, Roots | Tagged Folk, Music, stars | 2 Comments

Last Year

Posted on 9 May, 2019 by PoetJanstie

(Same River, New Waters …) Last year passed me the golden glove You know, the one with a fist of iron. She wanted no more of it. Nor I. Those glossy, glittering, glistening, shining products of a golden age … Continue reading →

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Posted in poetry | Tagged Consumption, Debt, Economy, Materialism, Poem, Poetry | 3 Comments

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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Posted in 100TPC, children, Free Verse, Hope, Love, poem, poetry, Wonder | 5 Comments

Blackbird

Posted on 18 August, 2018 by PoetJanstie

Your gold-rimmed, mystic, all-seeing eye that asks of us the question … why you’re first to rise, not we in time to hear your cry. A share of this full Earth is how, you feed your Spring-time pride. An earthworm … Continue reading →

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Posted in animals, Ballad, conservation, Global Warming, green, nature, poem, poetry | Tagged Conservation | 1 Comment

Eva Joy

Posted on 27 July, 2018 by PoetJanstie

Mother Earth expected your arrival her hills and mountains tumbled into plains, but fault-lines held for your survival. She is made of you and you of her, atoms and molecules indistinguishable inside the organic life you share now the planets, … Continue reading →

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The Great Divide

Posted on 22 June, 2018 by PoetJanstie

Crossing the great divide between the dark age and a brave new world, sailing from the safety of knowing your place into uncharted waters. In a deep and sickly swell, an ocean of uncertainty, struggling to recall the purpose of … Continue reading →

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One of A Kind

Posted on 19 March, 2018 by PoetJanstie

Is she the last of a generation …? Continue reading →

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Posted in Art, Death, Elegy, family, Free Verse, poem, poetry | Tagged Death, Loss, Poetry, sadness | 5 Comments

Moon Child

Posted on 1 February, 2018 by PoetJanstie

Once in a while you exceed yourself. Are you blue, because we thought no more of you as the driving force for life on Earth or potency behind the waves of bitches and whelps giving us thrilling moments or contemplative … Continue reading →

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Posted in conservation, conversation, environment, Free Verse, nature, poem, poetry | 1 Comment

International Holocaust Rememberence Day – 27th January

Posted on 28 January, 2018 by PoetJanstie

No shortage of stories that tug heavily at the heart strings; the conscience of those who can stop to think for a moment; that nag at the literary minds of those who continue to write and remind us of the … 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 →