Cyprus Symphony Book 3

January 20, 2013

Starvation

Squatting listlessly in the dust in Africa’s searing sunshine, with no murmur, The half alive starving aged young Mother Wearily brushes persistent flies from the face […]
January 20, 2013

Depression

Her brow is furrowed, with deep lines of worry Anxiety has etched them making her ugly. In photos of yore we see her face, dark grave […]
January 20, 2013

Spring Morning in Cyprus

The morning is golden, abundant with sensual sensations to embrace; I breathe in the aroma of the newly opened lemon flowers, Pungent in the air their […]
January 20, 2013

The New Friend

He is a mute, reincarnation of the Cheshire feline species With his benign smile and listening ears And brown eyes which know and see far beyond […]
January 20, 2013

You are gone

You are gone I am in you I have gone too. I should have stayed, to be sure With gentleness they washed And dressed you in […]
January 20, 2013

The Birthday

for Elizabeth Anne What are your thoughts on this Your thirty first birthday? Such a long time ago I gave birth To a very special person, […]
January 20, 2013

The Last Embrace

Your loving arms embraced me so sweetly I thought you sincere, Your sentiments of true love were proclaimed together with tears. We promised each other loving […]
January 20, 2013

The Therapist

for Dr Vasilios Silivistris Talk to me trustingly of your pain And what occurred to make you so unhappy again; Was it something that happened long […]
January 20, 2013

Haiti Earthquake 2010

The chaotic poverty stricken turbulent isle of Haiti Has been hit by an earthquake of huge enormity. The earthquake had no regard to the harm inflicted […]
January 20, 2013

Dear Friend

Your spirit for me, is in the music I hear For your velvet voice whispers in harmony. Your smile is never far from my memory, When […]
January 20, 2013

The Cat with No Tail

Where are you, you sad ginger cat with no tail? For you usually appear demanding sex, and food that’s not stale. Proclaiming your desire by your […]
January 20, 2013

Felix

You are the first born of the new Rafferty clan. On the 2nd of May, in the early hours of the day You were lifted out […]
January 20, 2013

Cyprus’s Spirit

She stalks the land Aphrodite so pure; Goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.   This outstanding beauty, was born out of savagery Which Coronus caused […]
January 20, 2013

Change (lyric of song “It doesn’t have to be this way”)

It doesn’t have to be this way. Half the world starving, today. Let’s pick up our white hats, dropping the black. Put food in the piles […]
January 20, 2013

The Silent Voice

People of power, leaders of lands, Listen well, as we are buried underground. Threatening clouds of evil are again swirling around, Can you not feel the […]