by Jan Hedger | Jun 23, 2010 | Poetry
I felt the fear in her muscles our bond impenetrable broken only by a bullet. ‘Run my baby, run’. She shook me free, from her dying breath. ‘It is too late for me now you are the future, run!’ So I ran and could not bare to look back at her stillness. I ran into some...
by Jan Hedger | Jun 23, 2010 | Poetry
Dazzling sunbeams Carry dreams of Summertime; Barbeques and garden fetes Home made cake on paper plates. Cricket teas and homemade scones Ninety-nines in ice-cream cones. Ploughman’s lunch and ice-cold beer Fish and chips sat on the pier. Picnics and towels on beaches...
by Jan Hedger | Jun 23, 2010 | Poetry
If wishes were dreams and dreams were wishes If only we could share; pulling a wishbone in two If dreams became real and wishes come true If a coin in a well bought forth your kisses I’d give away my fortune, for a moment with you. There is no future; in the past....
by Jan Hedger | May 4, 2010 | Poetry
The gannet penetrates the water like a missile piercing the reflection. The otter streamlines the water like a prow splitting the reflection. The whale erupts from the water like a volcano smashing the reflection. The watcher stands by the water like a statue...
by Jan Hedger | Apr 21, 2010 | Poetry
Children of war, caught like stupefied rabbits, with shards of light piercing the night blackness; as if the stars had fallen from the sky and deserted the moon; that divided their innocence, into waking and sleeping, playing and dreaming.A beating and once welcome...
