Category Archives: poetry

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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do not make war, a poem

Posted on 24 December, 2016 by PoetJanstie

Originally posted on Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine:
View of Cliff House from Ocean Beach 1. it must be painful for them to write, those poets in tough-times and hard places where blood and tears and poverty contaminate…

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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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Incidental music for ‘Sheffield PALS’

Posted on 1 July, 2016 by PoetJanstie

Last night at the New Barrack Tavern in Sheffield, a tribute was paid to a group of local young men, who fought for our country but never came home. To mark the 100th anniversary of the Batt… Source: Incidental music for ‘Sheffield PALS’

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May 2016, Vol.2/Issue 8; Books That Changed Our Lives

Posted on 16 May, 2016 by PoetJanstie

Another special issue of the BeZine, by the remarkable Jamie Dedes … BE inspired…BE creative…BE peace…Be Source: May 2016, Vol.2/Issue 8; Books That Changed Our Lives

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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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The Major

Posted on 18 June, 2015 by PoetJanstie

On the night before the battle,
a letter to his wife still wets the eyes
and we shed tears two hundred years on. Continue reading →

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Beginnings and Endings

Posted on 7 May, 2015 by PoetJanstie

(for Kath) Your words, those words you found so readily, that bound more hearts than we can count, that longed to procreate, transforming stress and suffering into new-born life and unbound joy; a baby girl or baby boy, maybe both … Continue reading →

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But You

Posted on 14 February, 2015 by PoetJanstie

(for Barbara) There couldn’t be, there could never be anyone so flawed and yet pluperfect any other being, so dissonant, yet in harmony with an Earth full of strife, yet bursting with life full of hope, and love, and integrity and … Continue reading →

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