Category Archives: story

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Barbershop is …

Posted on 24 May, 2020 by PoetJanstie

Barbershop is a much misunderstood musical force for good. A kind of Westminster without the politics. Ambassadors without the Ferrero Rocher. Zero8 with an ironically high score a Hallmark of Success, ringing true to their art, on a journey without … Continue reading →

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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 , , | 21 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

Real Heroes

Posted on 5 April, 2011 by PoetJanstie

(the plastic coated deceit of 20th/21st century life) Who are the real heroes and people of true courage? Find out in this blog post… … and in this poem.

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Posted in courage, experience, Heroes, Prose, story, War | 1 Comment