Category Archives: poem

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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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 →

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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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Message from Mother Earth

Posted on 15 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

I woke to feel no breath, as if at birth, so I could hear the breath of mother earth. She heaves with sighs of lives foregone, reminding us we need to change our song, review the wiles of new invented … Continue reading →