by Michelle Wendy DCosta | May 16, 2009 | Poetry
It was a dream come true I was getting married To a soldier, to someone the nation knew So my consent or the lack of it wasn’t paid any heed My parents were ecstatic There only daughter was now settled I was gifted a white floral dress of batik In which I was...
by Sheila Weekes | May 9, 2009 | Poetry
Like the last leaf of autumn I cling to you, everything grows cold, what else can I do? Stark and black are the days up ahead, I refuse to believe that you are dead. Your arms enfold me when I’m asleep, you brush away my tears when I weep. I hear your voice when I...
by Sheila Lockett | Apr 26, 2009 | Poetry
I remember a generation of old ladies whose young hopes were dashed by the horror of the Great War. We always called them Miss, never on first name terms it wouldn’t be polite. Stalwarts of the office, wisps of steel grey hair slipping from pins anchoring their coiled...
by Rob West | Apr 22, 2009 | Poetry
I never knew you, Great Uncle Jack; you went off to war, But didn’t come back. It was nearly Christmas, in nineteen seventeen, Of home and family, you and your friends must have dreamed. In the night you gave your life, making the ultimate sacrifice. Sunk by a U-boat,...
by Jenny Morris | Apr 15, 2009 | Poetry
The flagstones are worn where she paces alone in darkness, at daybreak, her heart held by frost. She faces the truth that her son won’t come home. He fought for his faith and his life, and he lost. ‘I’ll manage,’ she says as she walks up and down and rocks in her arms...
